Taliban fighters have overrun a second district in western Afghanistan, a district governor said Friday, warning the rebels could be planning to sweep into his own area. The USA seems to be powerless.
2007-11-02 13:48:04 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Exhausted troop depletion. We are running out of soldiers trying to fight too many wars and now Bush is thinking of invading Iran. Well, he's going to have to take his family to fight that one because we don't have the troops left. I don't understand why everyone is making so many excuses in their respective answers. We are supposed to be the most powerful country in the World. I'm afraid that Bush has lost a lot of ground on that one for us. Vietnam wasn't a traditional war either. So if we are not going to be able to win these nontraditional wars, then why wage them.
2007-11-02 14:46:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It would seem premature to say that the US is powerless against the Taliban. Regions of Afghanistan are controlled by NATO and the US does not spearhead the operations in that area. But the NATO allies are doing a great job for the most part.
Our biggest problem is the sanctuary that Pakistan tribal lords provide for the Taliban. Until we take action in those areas, it will be like not doing anything about termites.
2007-11-02 14:57:38 · answer #2 · answered by Yulik MahBaht 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fighting an enemy that has no "military uniform " is near impossible when every news agency claims you are gleefully killing innocents.
Say the US military bombs a taliban's strong hold - all anyone would see is a group of poorly clad villagers that the other taliban says are innocent and the media gladly shows the world - that buys it hook, line and sinker and pities all those poor innocents in Afghanistan.
1)Who cares if there are guns, rocket launchers or bombs all over the area?
2) Who cares that the taliban recruits young boys - it will make better headlines if the US military kills children.
The lack of uniforms and no clear military divisions is a great way to win the media's hearts and airtime. And in today instant imaging age - facts are easy to over look or just plain ignore.
If the US military could fight this like a WAR instead of trying to win the " hearts and minds" of the very prople shooting at them - they just might be home by now.
2007-11-02 14:27:22 · answer #3 · answered by Akkita 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Taliban, like Al-Queada, are unseen. Meaning they blend in with the local population and it is impossible to determine who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. The US is attempting to fight these people with as little collateral damage as possible. If we could go in and bomb whole villages and towns, with no regard to the innocent people who also live there, we would have no problem rooting out these evil, twisted people. But they run into the villages, hide behind children, women and old people or run into a mosque and then sit and laugh and thumb their noses at us, knowing that public opinion would be horrific if we bombed or shot up a town. These people are cowards and I hope your question is in no way showing any pride in their actions.
2007-11-02 14:37:17 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The USA could but area annihilation is no longer an acceptable form of warfare.
Things that have worked against non-armies:
Persians, Assyrians, Soviets, and Romans scattered rebellious people around the empire
Mongols killed everyone and destroyed everything in an area that supported civilian fighters
British walled off the Transvaal and Orange Free State and placed any Boar supporters/families in concentration camps
British/French hired Indians to wage genocide against American/Canadian settlers
The Arabs forced all to convert to Islam and killed those who didn't (during the initial expansion)
The Nazis killed entire villages in the occupied Czech areas
US/British bombers flattened Germany and Japan stopping rebellion before it ever happened
There are all so many examples but, you get the picture. Western civilization no longer tolerates the means needed to win (and I'm NOT saying they should - although it may come to that).
2007-11-02 14:21:10 · answer #5 · answered by Caninelegion 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have answered a similar question before. Taliban are not soldiers but simply civilian terrorists. They wear no uniform so the allied troops there cannot see if they are ordinary civilians or they real enemy. These cowards will never win and in the end it will be our British, American, Canadian and other troops who will come out on top
2007-11-02 13:57:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because we don't fight them in a traditional war...as in, they have no "capital" to conquer, don't follow traditional strategies as the US is used to, have no "traditional" armed forces...it is a new kind of warfare...it's like it's not against a government or a country but a group of rebels.
2007-11-02 13:59:20 · answer #7 · answered by Amanda 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
According to international news and relief agencies, Taliban disguise themselves as women, hide behind children, kidnap and rape young boys on a wide scale, burn down schools and clinics, and murder schoolteachers and medical workers (and their families).
If you're proud of that group, you are one sick soul.
2007-11-02 14:20:54 · answer #8 · answered by words for the birds 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
it's the bunch of hyenas against the lion's syndrome.
2007-11-02 14:42:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do have the resources and the firepower, but if we do unleash our fury, it will have dire consequences.
2007-11-02 16:59:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋