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[Jeo McPees] Bullus shittus; you predicted massive US casualties should we place boots on the ground there, and the starvation of millions of Afghans causing anti-american riots at the Kaa'ba. None of which happened.
[Jeo McPees] Seeing as how you continue to be in denial concerning your past massive mistakes of prophecy, I consider the balance of your post to be not worth my time to read.
[Hermit] Err, whenever the US put troops on the ground, they didn't achieve much (nobody there) or did take casualties in embarrassing profusion... Which is why the US still largely huddles in its air-conditioned barracks and refuses to go out into the nasty and dangerous environment - despite pleas from both the UN and interim Afghan government - and the latter as nasty a bunch of warlords as anybody could dislike. Refer to The reality of Afghanistan (http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=7;action=display;threadid=26509) for more.
[Hermit] The US military may be spending 30x more than the next ten big defense spenders put together, but their ineptitude is more than a little terrifying. Thinking big in small wars and attempting to use "Cold War" era tactics in a modern age is not a good way to achieve appropriate strategic goals. Yet this appears to be a general concern. See Reply: 158, "US Military inept?" (http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=7&action=display&threadid=11541&start=150)
[Hermit] I also noted that effective action against Al Qu'aeda required police action, and this has indeed turned out to be the case - in and out of Afghanistan. The 4'000 odd dead civilian Afghans was completely unnecessary and happened largely because the US refused and refuses to deploy on the ground and has proved incapable of developing an effective intelligence network.
[Hermit] I further noted at the time that millions of Afghans might starve, and had this happened it would have been blamed on the US and would probably have lead to massive reaction. This could still become the case, but it seems as if we are going to make this unnecessary by creating hundreds of thousands more wannabe martyrs and destabilizing our erstwhile allies ourselves... on the very flimsiest of pretexts but with the very maximum possible of jingoistic bombast. I refer of course to dubya's desire for "regime change" in Baghdad as reflected in your voluminous - and nauseous - slew of slanted sycophantic stories posted here of late.
---- This message was posted by Hermit to the Virus 2002 board on Church of Virus BBS. <http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=51;action=display;threadid=26507>
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