HOW LONG WILL WE BE IN AFGHANISTAN?
How Many American Soldiers Will Die?

The number of American service personnel who have died in Afghanistan since operation Enduring Freedom began in October 2001 is now 30. But not a single soldier was killed as the result of hostile action in the first three months of the main offensive. Recently the frequency of casualties has risen ominously, and in April alone four soldiers were killed.

In private, US special forces officers are now saying that Afghanistan is in danger of developing into another Vietnam. They see ominous parallels between the heavy-handed attempts at "pacification" which are alienating Afghan villagers and similar ham-fisted actions that turned the Vietnamese against the Americans.

I'm just going to keep on pounding away at this. The only realistic strategy that anybody can use against the world's last superpower is a mix of guerrilla warfare and terrorism. This was totally predictable. Furthermore, the government and the media are now using the phrase "win their hearts and minds" without any recognition of how the US miserably failed to do exactly that in Vietnam.

We cannot win their hearts and minds while we have guns aimed at them. This is absolutely insane.

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