Can defeat the insurgency?
What a load of crap! The Russians had 104000 soldiers in the A’stan and could not do it – but their generals told the Kremlin they needed to maintain 250000 soldiers deployed there in order to suceed. Similarly NATO maintained a troop to population ratio, not to mention aid dollar to population ratio that was way way higher in Bosnia than it is in the A’stan. Bosnia is now stable. NATO CAN succeed in Afghanistan IF they have the political will. But given some of our NATO allies, I can’t blame Harper for what he said. Posted 03/03/09 at 10:57 AM EDT | Link to Comment Roman Spears from St. Catharines, Canada writes: A C from France writes: ‘JP Warwick from Canada writes: …leftard ‘it’s all about oil’ dimwits … Assuming one follows your reasoning sir, what does that make you? **** You’re playing in the mud A C and, unless you like that sort of thing, looking for the rational just upsets them more. As everyone knows, its not about the oil at all. America can buy that more easily and at
