Afhhan, int'l troops hunt 1,100 after Taliban jail breakout

Sunday 15th June, 07:21 AM JST

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USAFdude at 08:18 AM JST - 15th June

This would never have happened if bush had allowed us to finish the job in Afghanistan back in 2001.

Obama 2008-16.
some14some at 08:37 AM JST - 15th June

Gone With the Wind...difficult to find them... back to Tora bora, Pakistan, Bangladesh or all the way to India. NATO= Not Available To Operations.
Sarge at 08:43 AM JST - 15th June

Dude - How exactly would we have finished the job in Afghanistan back in 2001?
briantokyo at 01:22 PM JST - 15th June

And this is what happens for not killing them upon capture: another 1100 terrorists out.
Jahdog at 02:51 PM JST - 15th June

Bush/Cheney strategy: lose.

The outgoing top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said Friday that attacks increased 50 percent in April in the country's eastern region, where U.S. troops primarily operate, as a spreading Taliban insurgency across the border in Pakistan fueled a surge in violence.

In a sober assessment, Gen. Dan K. McNeill, who departed June 3 after 16 months commanding NATO's International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, said that although record levels of foreign and Afghan troops have constrained repeated Taliban offensives, stabilizing Afghanistan will be impossible without a more robust military campaign against insurgent havens in Pakistan...

McNeill declined to endorse a U.S.-funded program to train and equip Pakistan's Frontier Corps, which guards the border, questioning the effectiveness and loyalty of the tribally recruited guards...McNeill raised two instances in which the guards have shot and killed U.S. soldiers...
fldpi at 03:40 PM JST - 15th June

Jahdog, when you copy excerps, leaving out everything that's not defamitory enough... :) , it's considered polite, (and non-plagiaristic), to site your source, which was I presume, the Washinton Post.

Especially when the only part you wrote yourself (2 words) makes no sense whatsoever to the contexts you carefully omitted.

2 original words don't make for "fair use" either, do they? :)
change at 03:59 PM JST - 15th June

Briantokyo, I like your style. That would have even saved us/Afghans the trouble of guarding and feeding them. But I wonder, what about the at least 1% who were not terrorists?
briantokyo at 04:19 PM JST - 15th June

Change, all Talibans are terrorists.
WilliB at 04:57 PM JST - 15th June

Ah, the democratic islamic republic of Afghanistan is shaping up splendidly.
Triumvere at 08:48 PM JST - 15th June

D'oh.
change at 01:44 AM JST - 16th June

Brian, only if those guys had taliban IDs
rajakumar at 04:50 AM JST - 16th June

Afghanistan getting richer with 20 billion coming in and 70,000 rich international soldiers. Afghanistan GDP now going up 20,000 million USD,that will provide plenty modern facilities for afghans/soldiers.

Shaping up splendidly both Islamic Taliban,taliban jail breakouts,taliban guerilla attacks and richer afghanistan.

Guess afghanistan will be ruled by karzai/ISAF in their strongholds. Taliban/mullahs will rule in their strongholds in afghanistan/pakistan.

Afghanistan has always been a nation, with factions wanting to fight foreign supported governments from time of russian colony rule. EU/UN colony rule, should not repeat mistakes of russian colony style rule. EU/UN must understand local political history/culture/languages, faith sensitivities and local causes, more deeply in afghanistan for better future afghanistan.
adaydream at 03:56 AM JST - 17th June

george bush deserted Afghanistan a long time ago for Iraq. he made that a real and permanent decision on 3/19/2003. Since then he turned his back on the real and initiating threat and turned his attention to the war of choise and desire.

This wouldn't have happened if he'd kept the troops where we were. In Afghanistan, not Iraq. < :-)
USAFdude at 04:49 PM JST - 17th June

adaydream - Amen, brother!