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Obama OKs 17,000 new troops for Afghanistan
"WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama approved adding some 17,000 U.S. troops for the flagging war in Afghanistan, his first significant move to change the course of a conflict that his closest military advisers have warned the United States is not winning."
U.S. supply routes to Afghanistan suffer two huge blows
"MOSCOW — The U.S.-led campaign against the Taliban suffered two logistical blows Tuesday as the president of Kyrgyzstan announced that he'd shut a U.S. airbase in his country and insurgents in Pakistan blew up a bridge, disrupting the main U.S. supply route into Afghanistan.
The developments were the latest reminders of the vulnerability of the long and complex transportation system on which the 60,000 U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan depend for fuel, ammunition, construction materials and a great deal more."
Teutoburg Forest in Germany will always be known as the scene of one of the most famous battles in history, the clades Variana, the humiliating defeat of the Roman general Varus. In September of the year 9, a coalition of Germanic tribes, led by Arminius, annihilated three entire legions and forced their commander Publius Quintilius Varus to commit suicide. The result of the battle was that the German tribes remained independent and were never included in the Roman empire.
15 to 20 thousand legionnaires and their mercenaries were strung out in a miles long marching formation in torrential rain, which made their bows useless and their shields waterlogged. The German warriors attacked and after a two day rout slaughtered them all, with few casualties themselves.
Emperor Augustus went mad, banging his head on walls and shouting Quintili Vare, legiones redde! ('Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!').
"WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama approved adding some 17,000 U.S. troops for the flagging war in Afghanistan, his first significant move to change the course of a conflict that his closest military advisers have warned the United States is not winning."
U.S. supply routes to Afghanistan suffer two huge blows
"MOSCOW — The U.S.-led campaign against the Taliban suffered two logistical blows Tuesday as the president of Kyrgyzstan announced that he'd shut a U.S. airbase in his country and insurgents in Pakistan blew up a bridge, disrupting the main U.S. supply route into Afghanistan.
The developments were the latest reminders of the vulnerability of the long and complex transportation system on which the 60,000 U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan depend for fuel, ammunition, construction materials and a great deal more."
Teutoburg Forest in Germany will always be known as the scene of one of the most famous battles in history, the clades Variana, the humiliating defeat of the Roman general Varus. In September of the year 9, a coalition of Germanic tribes, led by Arminius, annihilated three entire legions and forced their commander Publius Quintilius Varus to commit suicide. The result of the battle was that the German tribes remained independent and were never included in the Roman empire.
15 to 20 thousand legionnaires and their mercenaries were strung out in a miles long marching formation in torrential rain, which made their bows useless and their shields waterlogged. The German warriors attacked and after a two day rout slaughtered them all, with few casualties themselves.
Emperor Augustus went mad, banging his head on walls and shouting Quintili Vare, legiones redde! ('Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!').
posted by nolocontendere at 8:38 PM
2 Comments:
Aside from whether continuing the fight in Afghanistan is right or wrong, there's another question that nobody is mentioning - we simply can't afford it anymore.
Afghanistan helped bleed the Soviet Union to death, and we're heading down that same road.
So true, abi. Sadly, Obama has really shown his true alliegences by expanding this atrocity.
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