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Quote by: fushigi  You're crazy if you think this would work. The only thing you'd accomplish by keeping the military cozy in their bases and then "building infrastructure (and advertising that it was you)" would be to create nice, soft targets for the Taliban to blow up. Won't go floating down the media stream, but I'm pretty sure anything non-Taliban in Afghanistan is open game, including the Red Cross and NGOs. Not sure giving the Taliban more soft targets while reducing the military presence would help win the hearts and minds of the Afghani people. |
It's working in the horn of africa, which used to be just as bad as afghanistan. the idea is that the troops are the ones buildiing the infrastructure. I don't think the Afghanis would respond well to the Taliban blowing up a hospital or a school, do you?