http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/15/fighting-taliban-in-afghanistan-war

Interesting look inside the Taliban. If this guy can print an article full well telling about specific spots then why can't the troops take care of these guys.

Also interesting is how they fool the drones. Something tells me none of these American commanders know what's going on here.

"the roads belong to the Govt between 9am-4pm then they belong to the Taliban"

wow if that don't say it all right there.

I've also heard somewhat of the opposite, that the Afghan people are so fiercely independent that they hate the Taliban who try to impose their way. The local Taliban can coexist as the clannish society is very strong, but the people don't like the Taliban rule.

Key here is what our vision for the Country might look like. If it's a united Nation with a strong central government - - - fail.

-spence

It's another Vietnam, with its own funding and religious ideology.
It's impossible to win a religious war in a feudal state. These people have fought this battle for centuries. Even the with the Russians taking this country back to the stone age, they still have the means to raise cash, hide in broad daylight, move under cover of darkness and not be discerned as non-civilians. Terrorize those that don't believe by kidnapping their children and killing their leaders.

Its not a winnable situation, again, for the moral police of the world, US.

It's impossible to win a religious war in a feudal state.
I don't think we're really fighting a religious war in Afghanistan. This is about Nationalism more than anything else, and everybody is out for themselves.

-spence

"Winning," can't be defined as the establishment of western style democracy. There isn't even a national identity, Afghanistan is a tribal culture. Winning means preventing the Taliban from taking over Pakistan.