On 9 Aug 2002 at 15:16, rhinoceros wrote:
>
> [Quote from The Guardian]
> "They were Arabs and Pakistanis," said Bismillah Khan, the garrison
> commander and a senior military figure in the Northern Alliance. He
> said the gunmen "came from the south of Kabul, from the direction of
> the mountains and villages".
>
> Although international security assistance force troops patrol Kabul,
> their remit stops at the city's border. Further south, the Northern
> Alliance, which now dominates the Kabul government, has little
> influence.
>
>
> [Joe Dees]
> Apparently pockets of resistance remain, or continue to arrive. There
> should be a wider coalition security presence in Afghanistan proper,
> not just Kabul. It is a failing of the present course to believe that
> all the Afghan insurgency problems can be dealt with by means of
> military campagns that pack up and return to base when the shooting
> stops.
>
>
> [rhinoceros]
> This sounds technically correct, but it reminds of similar reports
> from the time when USSR was there for several years, hence the "deja
> vu" title.
>
The Soviets remained to opprerss. If we, instead, remain to help, I
believe that our reception will be much better than theirs.
>
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