Will Nato run out of troops before the Taleban run out of Taleban?

Question

Is it just a fight based on who can kill the most, or are there other strategies in place?

Answer 1

How long is a piece of string?.... Answers only god knows!

Answer 2

No. There will always be people who want to hate though, and the Taleban will always exist on one form or another. The best way to defeat the Taleban is not just with military firepower (though it helps, and many of these scum could be said by many to deserve to die). We need to make sure that the Middle East becomes more peaceful, and that involves promoting democracy there.

Remember, we are fighting in Afghanistan to save a democracy, but are using a military dictatorship to help us do that. Sound strange to me!

Answer 3

The Taliban lost 200+ fighters last weekend. Some publicised - some not.

My son was in a 7 hour firefight with them on Saturday. He counted 100+ Taliban dead. 48 hours later they were back for another go.

His words - "we haven't got a cat in hells chance of taking them out because we haven't got the manpower on the ground to take and hold. We have to move on and the Taliban just come back. Then we have to go back and cover the same ground again & again"

Does that sound like an enemy that's on the run??

If there's a strategy in place I'd feckin love to know what it is. 6 years of fighting & the only differences are a bigger opium crop and a few more bodybags.

Answer 4

Only America decides who won by the body count. That's why, while the rest of the world knows damn well they lost in Vietnam, the US still insists that they won. They killed more NVA, so they must have won.
Utter rubbish. You don't leave the country in a helicopter from the roof of the American embassy if you've won.
Nor do you leave the country to be run by the Communists if you won, since your stated aim was to support the rulers of South Vietnam and prevent the spread of Communism in the region.

When nowhere is safe for the Taliban to hide, then NATO will have won.

Answer 5

Over 80 Taliban were killed in one engagement yesterday. But, Defense Secretary Gates did chastize the other NATO members for their lack of support in Afghanistan. Some nations have committed troops that are carrying out operations in a robust manner. But, many NATO members have restrictions, called "caveats" on the employment of their troops in Afghanistan.
The source below is for the web site of the Voice of America. The story about Secretary Gates can be downloaded from that site.

Answer 6

The problem with NATO is that there are a lot of member nations in it who do not want to commit their troops to a war-zone.

I don't want to name names right, but you all know who I mean.

The two nations most likely to want to do something physical about a given military situation are the US and UK. I think also that the Poles are able and willing along with say the Dutch. We an also rely on Canada. Down south [but presumably not in NATO] we can rely on Australia and New Zealand.

No, I think the Taliban can be beaten but not simply in the way in which we're doing it right now. Gotta come up with a better plan. Not sure what, but best leave it to the politicos and generals.

Answer 7

Each Avtar has to be a demon there for it to come down.If it is not there somebody is bedecked with red rags and the earth goes(so say the Indian mythology) to god inthe form of a cow and requests him to come down and deliver her.Every age has to have its Rawana or Kamsa.I think the Taleban is nothihg but a bugbear riased by America after it lost the Soviet Union and was spoiling for a fight Remember Taleban was on the side of the gods when USSR was in Afghanistan and America was helping Osama Bin Laden inthe fight again Soviet occupation. The world had expected that after Russia left America will stay on albeing unobstrusively there and help rebuild Afghanistan as it did in the post was Europe. But do not know where a fly sneezed and USA went back leaving the desolation to Afghan to tend. This treachery was unfathomable and antagonised the Taleban and even Osama Bin Laden. One thing led to another and it lead to the fall of the towers..America's misadventre in Iraq has not even the samblance of excuse afer it was confirmed that its attack was based in misconception. A deputation of Americanwomen which had visited Afghanistan before this war had found that there was no religious bigotry and woman could move about without veils.America has caught its feet in a cleft and is finding it difficult to extricate itself out of it. And now it isgrowling on Iran. Let us hope with the change in the Presidents which is in the offing things might change for the better.

I have some Muslim friends who feel bewieldered by hese developments where a Muslim is held responsible for the smallest act of even accidental explosion.He says he has to keep mum when his compatriots vehemently cry Jehad.Let us hope by and by the situation may improve for the better.

Answer 8

The Taleban are likes weeds that strado several countries and are constantly recruiting the poor and children.
Hatred for the west in particular the USA has never been so bad,due President Bush and cronies.
The repair will take longer than I like to think and cost us dearly.

Answer 9

Since troop casualties in Iraq are less then 1% of the force, I dont think it will be a problem, expecially since Afganistan is not as deadly as Iraq.

Its not a matter or NATO running out of troops, it more of a matter of how the civilian populations of the NATO countries feel about having thier troops deployed. So its not a matter of casualties, it a matter of national will. The enemy doesnt care how many casualties they take as long as NATO casualties are in the paper. The media is how our enemies plan on breaking that national will.

Answer 10

Afghanistan....seems to rhyme with Vietnam........ I think someone needs to take a practical view of the situation here... was sending the troops over a good idea ?....there will always be terrorists some will succeed and some we hope will fail and I am sure that most people hope that we would always do our best to root out these people..... yes I think people would like to think that eventually all be will well in Afghanistan but I can't help thinking the reaction of sending troops was in some way what the terrorists wanted ...

Answer 11

Some country members of the UN are "fearties" - they don't have the military tradition in fighting along with their fellow members.... 1-0 to the Taliban straight away.... and the game's just started. The other aspest is... as the old adage says.. "Know thine enemy"... the taliban specialise in geurilla warfare.. both urban and in the mountains... they blend into the population when they rest up... 2-0... The UN have always been an 'unarmed force' with no real teeth , if they are forced to defend their ground... it's only 'half-cocked'.... 3-0 Taliban