BATTLE FOR KANDAHAR WILL BE A SNOOZER...!

DOES ANYONE REALLY THINK THAT THE TALIBAN...AND THE AFGHAN PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GO OUT AN FIGHT THE US MILITARY ON OPEN GROUND...?

DON'T THESE GUYS READ ANY HISTORY...?

THE BATTLE FOR KANDAHAR WILL BE A NON-ENTITY...IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN...

AND JUST LIKE IN VIETNAM...THE "FRIENDLY NATIVES" WILL BE FEEDING SOLDIERS COKES WITH PISS IN IT...OR WORSE...

WHAT SEEMS TO BE LACKING IS ANY NOTION OF WHAT THE CULTURAL TRADITIONS ARE IN THESE AREAS...  THERE IS A LONG HISTORY OF HOW THESE IMPERIAL OCCUPATIONS ARE HANDLED...AND NOT JUST STARTING WITH THE RUSSIANS... 

FIRST...AND FOREMOST...YOU FIND A LOCAL ELITE TO EMPOWER...  THAT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN MISSED...  PERHAPS A FACTION OF THE TALIBAN COULD BE BROUGHT ON BOARD THE NATO PROGRAM...

JUST GOING INTO A TOWN AND REPLACING  ALL OF THE OLD ELITES...IS A FORMULA FOR DISASTER...AS WE LEARN EVERYDAY IN IRAQ...EVEN NOW...

YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT...THE ROMANS AND THE MUSLIMS, THE MONGOLS AND THE MOGHULS... TO UNDERSTAND  THIS REGION...

ONE THING THAT REALLY RUBS MUSLIMS THE WRONG WAY IS ANY ATTEMPT TO CHANGE LONG STANDING TRADITIONS REGARDING WOMEN...  

ANY CHANGE REGARDING OLD CUSTOMS REQUIRE LONG TERM PLANNING...  

AND MANY MUSLIM WOMEN DON'T REALLY WANT TO CHANGE TO THE WESTERN WAY OF LIFE... MUSLIM WOMEN HAVE A LOT OF STATUS UNDER ISLAM THAT THEY WOULD LOSE IF THEY WERE "LIBERATED."

IF THE AMERICAN GENERALS HAVE READ ANY IMPERIAL HISTORY...

THEY DON'T SEEM TO BE UNDERSTANDING WHAT THEY READ...