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There is no "Victory"to be won in Afghanistan

Posted on: August 20, 2009 - 12:29am

Ken G.

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There is no "Victory"to be won in Afghanistan

This video is from the documentary ' Rethink Afghanistan' www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23309.htm with three high ranking CIA agents explaining why.

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Posted on: August 20, 2009 - 10:38am #1

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Yah Ken, In case you

Yah Ken,

In case you were not aware, there is no such thing as a permanent victory. Whatever gains that you make will melt away given the passage of sufficient time. Just ask the British where their empire is if you don't believe me. Speaking of which, the brit's tried to take on Afghanistan and had their collective asses handed to them. Twice.

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Posted on: August 20, 2009 - 5:17pm #2

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For the most part you are

For the most part you are right, but there are at least two ways to achieve total victory in any conflict:
1: Assimilation. Not attempting it, but attaining it. If enemy has become you, then victory.
2: Annihlation. If enemy doesn't exist, then victory.

But 1: costs immensely (more than war; lots lots more), and 2: is unacceptable to most sane individuals.

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Posted on: August 23, 2009 - 2:57am #3

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Answers in Gene wrote... In case you were not aware,....

O' I'm very much aware that there is no such thing as an absolutely permanent victory,but I thought that the video was real good,people need to see something like that on the evening news (but the propaganda model that the U.S. follows won't allow it).And they also need to be told that although Guantanamo is being closed down,the Bagram base that we are operating in Afghanistan ipsnews.net/news.asp could become our next place to torture suspects. I tried the link and it seems to be broken,here's another one that has basically the same story salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/03/09/bagram/

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