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[Muskypundit]

101. Thank you for an informed debate and well thought out points.

But Afghanistan is every bit as occupied by the taliban and al queda as they are NATO. For example, over half of the insurgents are from places other than Afghanistan. Mainly Pakistan. But a lot are also from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, north Africa, chechnya. Chechnyans make the best snipers by the way. A lot of the money that funds the insurgents comes from other places too. Not including the funding that may or may not come from governments.

What we are finding in Afghanistan is that operatives will go to villagers and pay them good money to plant IEDs. The money from that comes faster to them than anything from the government.

I appreciate your understanding of a conventional rebellions, and the numbers needed to sustain and grow it. That is good knowledge, and a lot of those points are points I went there holding in my pocket. It's a good basis, a needed basis. But there are a million other circumstances added onto it you start to see when you get there. It gets convoluted and complex really quick.

And honestly after all this time I still don't know what to make of it. I will be there again this summer, so maybe I can win the war this time.