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It's on CNN right now!
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Anybody else concerned about the ramifications of dropping humanitarian aid there right now? I mean, if I'm the broken down Taliban army, and my supplies are running low, and I know villages are getting food and supplies... I think that's a tasty target for a raid... you know, the ones that get civilians executed. Not a pleasant thought.
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totally, but you have to admit that you would post sentries to keep an eye on those supplies-- instead of going out to find the bastards in the caves an hills-- wait for them to come out. heh heh heh-- Rambo time.

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Also we need local support in the area, so we need to feed the local groups that are non taliban, like Bush seinor should have done with the Kurds in Iraq, I mean if you promise a bunch of oppresed people aid you for their help you should definatly follow up on your end of the deal-- as long as it is done wisely
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totally, but you have to admit that you would post sentries to keep an eye on those supplies--

No, actually they wouldn't. They aren't even flying low enough to -see- the drop zone; for all they know they could be dropping all that food on top of somebody's head.

Wondering, has anyone even heard any plans for ground occupation/strikes at all?

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we need to feed the local groups that are non taliban,

No shit Sherlock.

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I mean if you promise a bunch of oppresed people aid you for their help

(hunh? That was English?)
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you should definatly follow up on your end of the deal-- as long as it is done wisely

What deal? I don't recall any deals...anyone else?
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Anybody else concerned about the ramifications of dropping humanitarian aid there right now? I mean, if I'm the broken down Taliban army, and my supplies are running low, and I know villages are getting food and supplies... I think that's a tasty target for a raid... you know, the ones that get civilians executed. Not a pleasant thought.

i think thats what theyre doing.

infact, im almost sure of it.

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You have been watching CNN too much-- we have talked to the opposition leaders and have been asking their aid for intelligence and for their efforts to help find terrorist hideouts--

I was under the impression that CNN was a -reliable- news source...as opposed to National Enquirer ("Secret Deals Struck! Turn to Page 43! Next week, breaking news on the coming Apocalypse!")...

And of -course- we've talked to them...we've talked to just about everybody lately. Did we go "Give us military intel or we won't drop those people any food"? No...

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I think the US is in trouble now that they started bombing. I hope no American lives are lost. I really think the US gov't could and should have done something else. Violence doesn't solve anything (in this situation) because they can do terrorist shit back to the US which will hurt Americans much more than the "terrorists".

With what? The WTC attack took a year in planning, and a huge amounts of resources, as well as depending on our rather lax security. Not that we're completely invulnerable now, but still...

So violence isn't the answer...what is then? Got an alternative?

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Plus civilian casualties are definitely gonna happen in Afghanistan. All the US technology and laser sights and GPS won't stop missiles and bombs from hitting civilian homes and hospitals. Such as Iraq, a "stray" cruise missile nailed a hospital.

Amazing as it may seem, technology -has- actually improved since 10 years ago. See askheaves's post.

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I dunno if this technology exists back in 'Nam, which I really doubt it did, meaning these B-52s bombed the hospital on purpose. My dad watched it happen. That's such a cheapshot (besides a violation of the rules of war I think...aren't u not allowed to bomb civilians and hospitals and indiscriminately carpet bomb everything?)

::tries to figure out whether that -interesting- little passage was talking about Vietnam, or Iraq, or both::

So, basically, the tech for precision targeting did not exist back during Vietnam, which somehow leads to the conclusion that the US purposely bombed a hospital in Iraq for no reason? Huh?

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I was under the impression that CNN was a -reliable- news source...as opposed to National Enquirer ("Secret Deals Struck! Turn to Page 43! Next week, breaking news on the coming Apocalypse!")...

And of -course- we've talked to them...we've talked to just about everybody lately. Did we go "Give us military intel or we won't drop those people any food"? No...

What I am saying is that the US has done similar deeds when fighting Iraq with the kurds, we just back out of what we were doing when we felt our oil fields were safe.
Now you know better than to say that CNN is completely reliable--- BBC or CBC would be what you should be watching, BBC has always kicked the shit out of our reporting by keeping it a bit cleaner of sensationalism, americans way of reporting is way too damn egocentric--Come On dude! CNN has really gone downhill-- not saying it is as bad as the FOX news channel. But still, I would never use it exculsively.

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