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Post by PTH on Apr 6, 2003 14:55:24 GMT -5
Près de 18 mois après la chute des talibans, chacun attend toujours le nouvel Afghanistan "promis" par le président Bush. www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3216--315694-,00.html I wonder if in a couple of years, we won't be reading the exact same thing, only with the words Afghanistan and Taliban replaced with Iraq and Saddam.... |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Apr 6, 2003 16:37:17 GMT -5
I just went to refdesk.com and translated it, PTH.
It's going to be very hard keeping the Taliban and other organizations/sects like that, from ever massing again. One part of the article refers to the difficulty the Americans are having just trying to locate the remaining Taliban. Once they go into the mountains, the Taliban disappears and when they leave, they resurface.
However, these are people who disappear by blending in with the local populas. During the last conflict Taliban fighters were captured and then later released, sometimes the next day because of Afghan/tribal laws. Just that alone suggests the fight could be a never-ending one.
I don't know what post-war Iraq will look like, but I'm fairly positive pro-Hussein factions will want to be heard; if not vocally then by conflict. But, they only represent one faction that will lay claim to power. Like in Afghanistan, these "loyalists" blend in with the local community because they are probably from that area. And like Afghanistan, they'll resurface only when it is safe to do so and hide once again when confronted by coalition uniforms.
I think your concerns are in the right place, PTH. I can't see how coalition forces are going to root all of these fanatics out. It's just not going to happen.
The sad part is eventually these will be problems for the newly-placed governments to deal with. The coalition is already wearing out their welcome very quickly. It will be interesting to see how they react when the political assassinations start.
I hope I'm wrong. Cheers.
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