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Re: Hold your fire?
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Sun, 7 Oct 2001 23:28:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,564137,00.html
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> Is (was?) this analysis correct? What do people think? Is today's action
> likely to undermine any Taliban crumbling, or is it more of a "take out the
> air defenses so the aid aircraft won't get shot down" that won't strengthen
> Taliban resolve?
The article seems a bit myopic, lacking in a historical perspective. The
basically tribal societies of Afghanistan and indeed the five central Asian
former Soviet states could continue see-sawing for centuries. The U.S.
and Osama conflict upset things and I don't believe we'd be seeing the
fall of the Taliban for many years had the U.S. not acted. What will happen
next is still of course open to speculation but the status quo could have
continued in the entire region for many years, as is typical of tribal
societies.
tom
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| (URL) (was?) this analysis correct? What do people think? Is today's action likely to undermine any Taliban crumbling, or is it more of a "take out the air defenses so the aid aircraft won't get shot down" that won't strengthen Taliban resolve? I (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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