Obama considering 4 options for Afghanistan, sources say

[Charlatan]

Obama considering 4 options for Afghanistan, sources say - CNN.com

This is called short sightedness. If they send more troops, there wil be more resistance. Each time the people see the people shipping in they are reminded of the 'threat' they pose, and get excited and join the militants.

If they want to stop the war for good I suggest they use some of the techniques I have suggested, like thermal imaging for clusters of hidden people and such.

Of course my solutions might be a bit to 'techy', so maybe something simpler? How about they go to the villagers that are hiding them and try to make sense of the situation. If they had the support of the clerics from the new outlines of a Jihad from those prison folk then that would help, as it is under religious means they hide and have authority.

Every accomplice, and that is what these people might be, under law, is guilty. I say they arrest the whole village one by one and hold them until they reveal their location, of at least some of them. They might be accomplices, and suspects, under international law, are able to be held. Now the trick is to hold one person from each village, and let them sort it out. The villages that are against it, due to some charsimatic elder's influence no doubt, will be against the militants, and expose the suspects they need. I mean there is no point in a vow of secrecy if there is nothing to be gained and everything to be lost! Just round them up, stick them all in together, and then let them sort it out.

OK, they don't want money, how about land? The west could buy land in the region and offer it to them with a basic farm built for them - something that helps them - in exchange for information. I mean accepting money might be a bit shallow, but land, for your children and wife, stuff like that, could work.

Now the hard way. If they still refuse to work with them they could all just buy up the livestock from them. They don't really own these livestocks, they have no permits for them. The state could simply pull a Mugabe and take their cows and sheep or whatever and then they would have no reason to stay in the region and move to the cities, leaving the 'rebels' squelling looking for others to hide them.

Or, maybe if they were to show them this simple formula - the west brings money into the region, the 'rebels' want this money gone and fight against it - they would understand they are the heroes if they cooperate. The west is not there to change anything except the dangers these people pose.

If they were to use a vector style thermal sensor they could detect all underground heat from the villages and the mountains. They could easily make this thing by taking a laser and then stripping away the 'fat' from it, then simply sweep in all directions for heat from a shallow pit or so, or from helicopter.

Conscription is a good idea. They go to the villages and simply force them to join the fight on the side of the state, or, they go to jail or have their assets siezed. Once they have a gun in thier hands it is easier to deal with them conversely, as then if they are not to be seen with the western soldiers, whom if they attack they will be attacking the men of the villages aswell, then they will be arrested. This is hard, but this war sees people dying on the streets everyday and must stop at any reasonable cost.

Of course they should be equipped with taser guns, water pistols that shoot a drop of water electrified to the rate of a taser gun with the same amount of charge to capture live terrorists.