Here are two excellent articles featuring underreported facts that everyone should read about how the war is progressing.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/02/feature1.shtml
http://www.brknews.com/news/imperial.html
I am the Grand Ultimate Silk Pyjama
Wow, what a newsflash. Most people already know that the Alliance is no different than the Taliban, except to short-sighted rat-f*cking politicians who do what they can whenever it’s politically expedient. --And that goes for both sides of the Aisle in Washington, by the way.
K. Mark Hoover
What we need to do is drop in a western education system and give those folks some exposure to the world.
If all you know is oppresion, dust and ancient rules for living, then that’s all you’re ever gonna know.
Still, the Taliban are a bunch of ignorant idiots, as well as their counterparts.
The military should get in, whip the guys who arranged and funded the terror in NY and get out. Then try to work things out in a manner that will allow these countries to come up to at least 19th century standards.
If people are going to change, they have to want to change. To want to change, one must be exposed to new things that they did not know existed.
peace
Kung Lek
Kung lek,
Exactly right! I argued this repeatedly with some of my co-workers in the intel community… so MANY of them want to get in, do the job, and get out, not understanding that education will be the key to a permanent victory.
That is based on the assumption that a western education system will give them exposure to the world. This is not necessarily the case 
However, I do agree that education is the key.
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You’re fu(king up my chi
C’mon the Taliban are smarter. At least they would have disarmed any Northern Alliance defectors before letting them behind their lines.
[i]Signed,
Rogue, Soke and Senior Grandmaster of Southeast American Brazillian Bagua Combat Chi jitsu Kempo Karate Do and Choral Society.
The only tactical principle which is not subject to change; it is, “To use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time." [/i]