The first effort to spread Islam went
smack into Afghanistan
and it seems that every conqueror thought it a good idea to trample over this
tiny nation in every century from thereon. The result is that they have
30 million people who are armed, angry and good shots with small weapons.
To think we would consider an expeditionary force of a few thousand could
win a war in that place is ridiculous. One million would not get the job done.
These were the first people to demonstrate that an armed population
cannot be defeated by invaders.
History shows it would take a force equal
to or greater than the population to prevail over an angry, armed people.
This is a simple fact war generals have a very hard time learning.
It interferes with promotion and after retirement profits working for
weapons makers. There is no force that can prevail in Afghanistan as they are very well armed
just from weapons left when the last invaders ran. To Afghanies invading armies have been
weapons suppliers.
They know every nook and cranny, road,
path and hiding place. All they have to do is wound one-fifth of our boys
and we are beaten. Such is the nature of guerilla war. We will never be
invaded because the American hunter is the largest armed force in the world.
Long live the Second Amendment. It is our best guarantee of freedom.
Our own revolution is a case in point:
In spite of all the talk of the great battles of the Revolutionary War it
was the thousands of boys with rifles designed to kill squirrels and rabbits
that would only wound men that defeated the British. Wounding one many
ties up four just to carry him off the battlefield or out of the march and
almost that many were needed to take care of him. If field commanders do
not take care of the wounded they get shot in the back or see a lit grenade
come rolling in their tents. Regiments are fraternities not birthday
parties. There are no clowns in war.
Today the Taliban controls 70% of Afghanistan , all but the northern
provinces of Afghanistan .
They will have a headquarters in a defendable canyon surrounded by tall
mountains with only two roads into a valley. This is a perfect
thermonuclear target as there will be no significant collateral damage and even
a small nuke could do the job, but a big one is better as it would turn the
ground into a glass monument many will see for a long time and all the
neighbors feel the earth move.
Our use of a nuclear weapon in this
situation will have a profound effect on our world image, politics and
economics. America needs to send such a message as we are the dominate
thermonuclear power on this planet having invented the fusion bomb which is as
far as you can go in bomb technology, but war profiteering politicians have
kept us from using our best weapons as war is good for their business, campaign
contributions and Swiss number bankers. This era can end. Afghanistan is
perfect!
Adrian Vance

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