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AP IMPACT: Troops already outnumber Taliban 12-1
The Associated Press has today released an article on the ratio of allied troops and security personnel to active Taliban in Afghanistan. It is already somewhere between 12 to 1 or 5 to 1 allied advantage, depending on whom is calculating the figure. The story is here.
I am left with a sinking feeling in my stomach. As you read this article you realize how much of a numbers game this thing is. And all of the NATO and U.S. experts that were interviewed disagree with each other as to what is needed here to reduce the profile of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Why do I not feel good about this?
Why is nobody playing this straight? What is the real story with the number of troops needed here? Do you think it is possible for us to get that number?
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In the game of chess, it is an advantageous and strategic move to, after ascertaining where the opponents true power lies, to isolate and neutralize the same. Of course, the determination of where this true power lies is often very problematic.
In the case of both Afghanistan and Iraq, however, it can be reasonably presumed that the REAL power in those nations does NOT lie with the TALIBAN nor Al QUIDA but with the citizens of those countries.
Our strategy, therefore, in attempting to use military force, intimidation, aggressive and unprincipled war, and war crimes to “isolate” and “neutralize” and “surround and destroy” the ENEMY is unequivocally counter productive as well as unethical.
Rather, as some prominent middle east military and political experts have asserted, the current Machiavellian military and political adventures in the Middle East may well be the “Waterloo”, the “Stalingrad”, and the “Yorktown” of American military and foreign policy.
” Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all.” George Washington, in his Farewell Address (17 September 1796)