NATO helicopter crashes in south Afghanistan »
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A NATO helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force said. The big, twin-rotored Chinook military helicopter went down in southern Afghanistan, a NATO official in Brussels said, but he had no word on casualties.
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SultanME1 year, 3 months ago
Haven't they already won ? The 'coalition' army in Iraq is no longer acting or performing like an Army and hasn't been in a long time. It is performing like headless chicken running around trying to hit one place then the other then the other and so on. There is no Coalition army in Iraq anymore, just the worlds largest disorganized objectiveless mercinary unit in history. You already lost and there is no honorable military way out for you.
So far just about everything the USA (or coalition) miltary actions/results has been precited perfectly, so just for the heck of it here is another prediction for the future, either you will withdraw amid heavier losses soon ala Vietnam style, or, there will be an attempt by the coalition & Israel to put on an increidble show of force before you leave just to save face and image - resulting in armageddon which the 'coaltion' will lose very decisivley and comprehensively.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 3 months ago
'armageddon'?
wouldn't those with the biggest guns and best equipment 'win' something described as 'armageddon'?
I don't know if you realize that the only reason this iraq 'war' hasn't been won by those with superior forces and technology is that the 'rules' for what goes on over there are screwed up by US policy resulting in an appearence of 'compassion' or vulnerability..
When you say you are there to liberate and free people, kinda ties one's hands a little. can't just swing the big sickle
a real war involves killing as many of the enemy as possible as quickly as possible in order to break the enemy's will to fight. what is going on over there has become an unfortunate occupation.
we killed saddam, drove out the baathists and flooded the country with troops. we won the war, but the occupation following that is making the US look weak and vulnerable.
I hope no one makes the mistake of believing that.
we have fools in power, but the power is still there
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el4sail1 year, 3 months ago
My prediction is that some smart AlQuaeda guy will realize what a dirty nuke detonated on a container ship in a port in The USA would do.
It would bring our economy to an immediate halt. We would close ALL the ports for weeks.
Factories would close millions would be unemployed.
It is the economy which fuels americas war machine.
An effective economic blow would be a million times more effective than a thousand 9-11's
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libsRfunny1 year, 2 months ago
"Haven't they already won ? The 'coalition' army in Iraq is no longer acting or performing like an Army and hasn't been in a long time. It is performing like headless chicken running around trying to hit one place then the other then the other and so on. There is no Coalition army in Iraq anymore, just the worlds largest disorganized objectiveless mercinary unit in history. You already lost and there is no honorable military way out for you."
YOu obviously hadn't heard Sunnis are helping to kill al-Qaeda members in Baghdad. Feel free to join the fray.
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walden31 year, 3 months ago
sad. sucky to lose any more troops, or any troops at all for that matter.
are we waging the war in afghanistan correctly? it seems like we've been there a long time, longer than WWII lasted actually and what do we have to show for it? how much longer will we have to sustain two brigades in afghanistan? what's the mission? how do we know when it's been achieved?
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joeblowe1 year, 3 months ago
Ve Vill Know Ven It's Achiefed because the commandant vill SAY it's achiefed!
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djrevelky1 year, 3 months ago
And how long did we keep US troops in Germany, Japan, and Italy after WWII ended?
It's hard to fight a war when political correctness will not let you. If we went in there like ravenous, blood thirsty, tyrants like people seem to say we are it would have been a done deal.
We tried to avoid as much collateral damage as possible and avoid as many civilian deaths as we could. It would have been much quicker and cost-effective if we just destroyed the cities that we knew that Taliban in them instead of trying to kill only Taliban members.
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SantaM1 year, 3 months ago
ok. i agree. but then we wouldnt have achieved our mission of minimizing terrorism, right? we would have spawned even more (even more than we have spawned from the way we have waged the war now)...
and the troops in germany and japan weren't fighting anyone after the end of the war.
its just suspect that we've been fighting a war for 6 years now and we still havent caught the guy we went in for, and the taliban is on the rise again...
an logical person would have to at least question the manner in which the war is beign waged.
it doesnt seem like a recipe for success, given the facts.
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walden31 year, 3 months ago
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what would be a done deal?
you think killing 2,000,000 million innocent people as collateral damage to get to 1,000 that are evildoers would make us safer in the long run? how about all of the evildoers in other places? you can't kill em as fast as killing em makes more of em.
this type of battle is a losing one. you beat terrorism through politics, diplomacy, intelligence, the justice system and covert operations.
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koranagirl1 year, 3 months ago
Afghanistan used to be an absolutely beautiful country before the US and Russia got in there and bombed it and destroyed it. Kabul was a center of learning and enlightenment; women had freedoms there and this was starting to spread throughout the country with the public education of girls and boys. But after 20 years of war, that is all gone. Cities destroyed, villages destroyed, the people are fearful to move about. Everyone is afraid and trusts no one. What the US needs to be doing is send teachings of peace and love; textbooks, basic food and medical supplies, finding sources of clean water, etc. Every community, school, cultural center, the newspapers needs to start teaching and reinforcing concepts of peace, love, tolerance, understanding, sympathy, empathy, etc. This country need no more bombs and munitions. For a great book on peace and love, see "korana of mother goddess" available at amazon dot com, LuLu dot com and ebay. peace and love to you all.
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djrevelky1 year, 3 months ago
Women had freedoms????? You are such a liar! The only freedom women had in Afghanistan before the US invasion was whether they wanted to have the Quran read to them by their husband after or before the daily beating.
Do not believe this person, women were rarely allowed to attend schools in Afghanistan.
Kabul was NEVER a center of learning or englightenment and things only becames worse after the Taliban came to power. Those ignorant, intolerant, b@stards DESTROYED a giant, rock craven statue of the Buddha. It was a great work of art torn asunder by evil men who preach their own corrupted brand of Islam based on hate of EVERYONE who isn't a Muslim.
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Jaydee401 year, 3 months ago
Sorry to disappoint you but she was right, looked it up and in the early 1900 it was a very advanced society. look it up for your self, heres the link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Afghani...
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SultanME1 year, 2 months ago
As usual in these forums you are only marginally informed yet you form such a strong (if not impolite) opinion. You are thinking of the Taliban who took control of Afghanistan a few years before you attacked it. They did all those things not the rest of the muslims in Afghanistan. Incidentally, YES, Islam has given women more freedom than any Western Law has given your women but fanatics who assume power (like the Taliban) strip away those freedoms.
The rest of your statements are just way too rediculous to address.
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blowback1 year, 2 months ago
> The only freedom women had in Afghanistan before the US invasion was whether they wanted to have the Quran read to them by their husband after or before the daily beating.
5 years since the US invasion things haven't changed a bit.
But the opium trade is now booming better than ever.
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WCFIELDS1 year, 3 months ago
What Afganistan needs to be doing is to send teachings of peace and love; textbooks, basic food and medical supplies, beer, finding sources of clean water, etc. Every community, school, cultural center, the newspapers needs to start teaching and reinforcing concepts of peace, love, tolerance, understanding, sympathy, empathy, etc. This country need no more bombs and munitions. For a great book on peace and love, see "korana of mother goddess" available at amazon dot com, LuLu dot com and ebay. peace and love to you all.
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LibsRsick1 year, 3 months ago
Wow, what planet do your come from Koranagirl? Public executions of women and people for the smallest infractions of sharia law. The soccer stadium there was turned into a public execution arena. Women where beat in the streets if they even spoke out of line. You must be brainwashed. Sorry for you. As-salaamu Alaikum Masalama
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KingSol1 year, 3 months ago
I can't stand hearing posts from ppl who wallow in ignorance like a pig in his own ******e. Koranagirl was speakin of a time before russia invaded. She was commenting on the earlier part of the 20th century, and she's right. If you don't know then just shut up. See the problem with the world are there are just too many dumba$$ mouth breathers who buy the crap they are told. They form opinions based on half truthes and outright lies. They exist in every country. (Now before you get all up in arms, yes everyone has the right to thier opinion.) Well here's mine. Your teacher didn't beat you enough, or hard enough, i don't know. Just get an education and shut up until then. Koranagirl had an insightful comment about how to address hate and senseless violence. She was in line with Dr. King and Ghandi, (Both of whom won thier respective battles I might add.) Now you have been corrected, stand and acknowledge.
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saintetienne1 year, 3 months ago
Oh PLEASE, koranagirl.... are you smoking crack AND snorting PCP?
Afghanistan was, is, and always will be a DUMP!
"Beutiful"? Yeah, if you find sweeping desert scrub, impenetrable mountains and skanky nomad villages beautiful.
"Learning and enlightenment"? Is that in, Learn about Allah, or we will saw your head off with a scimitar?
"Freedoms"? Would that be the freedom of wearing the full-length black or the full-length dark brown berkha today - in searing 102-degree heat?
What the U.S. needs to be doing is to continue living its revolutionary, freedom-loving, awe-inspiring, educated, wealthy way of life.
What AFGHANISTAN needs to be doing is to co-operate with the U.S., emulate our political model, copy our human rights history, adopt our economic system, take cues from our campaign of religious freedom, and learn from our medical and technological advances.
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Jaydee401 year, 3 months ago
"What AFGHANISTAN needs to be doing is to co-operate with the U.S., emulate our political model, copy our human rights history, adopt our economic system,"
You can't honestly suggest some one look to the US as a model on how to build their country after are you? Your economy sucks, your possibly the most corrupt country in the world, and your streets are so violent people now have more carry and conceal permits than any civilized country in the world. Your supreme court has stated the police are not there for your protection and your countries idea of free speech is a fenced in area well away from anyone who cares.
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