Kabul falls

[faded glory]

Well we know Saddam cant be trusted..Besides politically Bush wanted to overthrow saddam. So why not crush is army (even tho 1/3 of his armor escaped).


1991 he sent 3,000 iraqi soldiers with several vehicles went to a saudi border city waving white flags looking like they were about to surrendur. Then when the Saudi border gaurds approached them the Iraqis mowed them down and took the mostly abandoned city

[DanS]

It's amazing what an obscure reference can do to a thread.

AH: I still think you're FOS, mainly because you assume that we haven't destroyed a good portion of the Taliban's retreating forces. What do you think all those Special Ops guys were doing? Reports are that we were watching the departing roads very closely. If there's anyone that gets through, it will be because we had reason to believe that, on balance, it was worthwhile to let them through. That's a long ass road from Kabul to Kandahar and even farther if you're footing it through the mountains.

Overall, I agree that this is a new stage of the war, and that success in the first portion using the tactics appropriate to the first portion has a limited relationship to this new stage. But it's foolish to assume that we don't know how to fight one of these wars, and it's equally foolish to assume that the coalition is disadvantaged by this new battlefield. From what I hear, we learned our Vietnam lessons better than you think.

As for reports that the American public was losing interest in the war, I think you read those wrong. Rather, there were reports that the reporters were losing interest in the war. But hey, now we've got action! So the news beast is fed...