https://barelyablog.com/clinton-cops-to-collateral-damage/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://barelyablog.com/clinton-cops-to-collateral-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-5720 Thu, 07 May 2009 03:34:32 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=7992#comment-5720 I recall Joe Lieberman’s idiotic neo-con claim of there being only 10,000 Iraqi insurgents versus 27,000,000 Iraqis [ http://www.jrtelegraph.com/2005/11/rush_limbaugh_j.html ] and wondering – at 2700:1 ratio, why are American troops needed at all?? Supposedly, the Taliban are widely hated by the Pakistanis and Afghans but they seem to be winning? Huh? Is there some misinformation or what? Theoretically, the US/NATO could just hand everyone an AK-47 and pull out and let the people kill all the Taliban if they are that unpopular. Certainly, the Shiite Iranians (who backed the overthrow of the Taliban is 2001), the Indians, the Chinese, and the Russians have no strategic backing of them so it would appear that Pushtun tribal affiliation is with the brutal Taliban. Perhaps the US, by backing the corrupt Afghans and Pakistanis and bombing the countryside, is inadvertently the strongest ally the Taliban has. Massive remoted airpower is generally ineffective in these types of wars. The combo of the War on Drugs and Western demand for drugs also fuels the Taliban. Another example of Walt “Pogo” Kelly’s famous line: “We have met the enemy and it is us”.

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