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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Losing the "other war"

Let's not forget the Taleban/Al Qaeda.
Taliban-led insurgents are winning ever-greater public support in Afghanistan for a struggle that is taking on the character of a "liberation war" against foreign troops, a senior Pakistani official claimed Friday......

"Today, they've reached the stage that a lot of the local population has started supporting the militant operations and it is developing into some sort of a nationalist movement, a resistance movement, sort of a liberation war against coalition forces," Aurakzai told reporters at a news conference.

posted by mikevotes at 7:40 AM

2 Comments:

  • 58% of American's simply wish the Bush administration was over.

    I'm no fan of single party rule, Dem or Repub, but the Repubs have been so virulently incompetent and extreme over the past 6 years, I'm really hoping for a Dem president and another 10 Dem senators in November 08.... At least for 4 yrs.

    By Blogger -epm, at 4:04 PM  

  • Actually, I want either/or.

    The Dems are just as capable of going over the deep end.

    However, for at least the next two years, probably the next four, they have alot of middle ground low hanging fruit to collect first that the Republicans have ignored in their move to the right.

    Picking up 9 more Senate seats might be a stretch even with 21 of 33 Senators as Republicans coming around next time.

    Of course, there's still eighteen more months for Bush to do his thing, and all of those were relected/reelected in 2002, the most pro Republican year ever.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 5:08 PM  

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