Posted on May 25, 2015
Afghans form militias and call on warlords to battle Taliban. In the long run, is this a good or a bad thing?
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Facing a fierce Taliban offensive across a corridor of northern Afghanistan, the government in Kabul is turning to a strategy fraught with risk: forming local militias and beseeching old warlords for military assistance, according to Afghan and Western officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/25/world/asia/as-taliban-advance-afghanistan-reluctantly-recruits-militias.html?ref=todayspaper
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/25/world/asia/as-taliban-advance-afghanistan-reluctantly-recruits-militias.html?ref=todayspaper
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Afghanistan, Warlords, and Taliban.
What could possibly go wrong?
Think we should send them some Stingers or something?
What could possibly go wrong?
Think we should send them some Stingers or something?
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No, not at all is this a good thing, especially when the warlords start turning on each other and/or forming alliances potentially against the elected government. Does the Horn of Africa ring any bells?
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it is irrelevant. They both have the same Islamic ideology. This is just tribal. I say let them kill each other off. Saves us the blood and bullets.
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