Always the question....top down or bottom up? Perhaps a bit of both. Work on teaching the new generation better while working on law enforcement...but yeah....someone needs to find non-corrupt politicians to oversee this or it won't take.
A lot of people (even here in the US) think stealing...
Historian....and counter-troll. Lol..."infidel"? must have been drinking....or this site is rubbing off on me. But I am right.....to cry about crusaders is kinda lame....."how dare you try to take back what we stole in the first place"....easily verifiable. Christian churches there are well...
On second look.....may be blow-away panels (to keep ammo explosions from taking out the whole tank)
Same here. Tanks are more vulnerable in urban settings....but if you use them right (back 100 meters or so with dismounts sweeping ahead)....they are a plus.
Or even more likely....A pic of a retard blowing himself up with no damage to the tank. Where are the photos of a destroyed tank? I only see an Islamo-tard blowing himself up to the benefit of the human race.
I'm not Pakistani....but not Indian either. I'm gonna say education....independent and professional law-enforcement next. (police and judiciary). From an out-siders prospective....the things that could use the most work....and make a difference.
They don't have enough by themselves. But they do have Sunni militias acting with them....and the main thing....the Iraqi army turned and fled hardly firing a shot.
True.....NATO is a defense agreement. It doesn't prevent members from taking action in their own interest. Of course, there will be meetings and coordination. Most likely action will be encouraged.
Seems to me they have the brains to go in the opposite direction of the Turkish border.
Trying to explain to most here that many civil-wars have more than two sides is useless.
Good to see someone understands the many facets of this conflict. Little known that even in the US Civil war there were some small factions that supported neither side. Another famous one was the Russian...
The deaths are because western Allies did this thing called "training". Vodka drunk Slavs charging machine guns doesn't make your front more important. only when trucks became available was Russia able to do anything. In their own backyard....while the US fought a two-front war across two vast...
This may seem strange....but after the failure to mount an offensive in FATA...I realized the issue was more political than military. I know your army is not afraid to mount an offensive there....it is the politicians.
I know you are smart enough to realize that the Taliban came into existence after the Soviet war. And I am smart enough to realize that some CIA complicity would be required. We recognized the northern alliance...but weren't disagreeable to some form of order in Af. However the Taliban turned...
I need to keep this in mind. While it is good to reflect on the circumstances that led to this....many young men who only wanted to serve...or at least a job to feed their families...lost their life. I hope all is done to make sure those families are taken care of.
I think things are reaching critical mass...everyone is getting tired of the extremist. Even the posters in this forum are less and less willing to excuse them. They will be pressured until they shrink to obscurity. Just hope the rest of us don't lose too much freedom on the way there.