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    Howard - impossible?

    Then you clearly are not aware of the Malaysia Emergency in the 60's. That is where the British Army learned a lot of lessons and gained an unmitigated success in defeating mainly Chinese communist guerillas in the jungle by a hearts and minds campaign. It was sad that the Americans ignored those lessons in Vietnam....

    You are of course correct about how difficult it is to control Afghanistan. The objective is to train the Afghan Army and support them as they take control over the Taliban areas. This is very different to an invasion such as we did in the 19th century and the Russians in the 1980's. You also need to consider that most of the peaceful farmers in the Taliban areas do not want the Taliban in either and it is they who suffer most from the Taliban.

    We also have to remember that this is a proxy war to prevent the Pakistan Taliban getting control of Pakistan's nuclear weapons.

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