New US Army strategy to find Osama: taunt him from Humvee, call him a bitc

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http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/world/9611529.htm

U.S. troops use new tactics to hunt down a resurgent Taliban

BY MARK MCDONALD

Knight Ridder Newspapers


PARLE, Afghanistan - (KRT) - The loudspeakers atop the Humvee crackled to life: "The Taliban are women! They're bitches! If they were real men, they'd stop hiding under their burkas and they'd come out and fight!"

It was high noon in the remote and stony heart of Taliban country, and 34 cavalry scouts from the U.S. Army were looking to pick a fight. Three hours later, they had all the fight they could handle.

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"Everyone says Afghanistan is the forgotten war, but it's gotten a lot more dangerous because of the election coming up," said Brett Henry, a staff sergeant from Stockton, Calif., part of a troop that's been hunting Taliban diehards in the southern mountains.

American forces haven't had much success. The Taliban and their al-Qaida brethren like to hit and run and hide. When there's a fight, the Taliban choose the time, the place and the odds. The Americans' use of psychological warfare - the loudspeaker insults and the taunting - is a new gambit for them.


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1. "Bring it on" revisited n/t

[htuttle]

2. Well, that will work for about a week...

...Until they figure out the response patterns.

Read 'The Other Side of the Mountain' and 'Bear Went Over the Mountain' (a paper and a book, respectively) about the Russian's experience in Afghanistan, and the Mujahadeen's experience in beating them. I don't know where to find them other than google, but they are pretty clear on the adaptive nature of way the Mujahadeen fought.

[PsN2Wind]

3. Might work

if they add, "Neener,neener, neener!!!!!"

[CarolynEC]

4. Glad to see we've bought into the Taliban thinking...

... that being a woman is the lowest thing possible.

Yeah, yeah, it's meant to be provocative, meant to plug into their misogyny, etc.

But it still stinks.

What a shame that our precious commander-in-chief didn't have the guts to send troops in after bin Laden when he had the chance. What a shame that he didn't have the brains to realize that sending in truckloads of food behind the troops was the way to defeat the Taliban.

What a shame that he pulled the troops away to launch a needless invasion of a contained enemy in Iraq. What a shame he's done everything needed to let the Taliban hang on and regroup, threatening the lives of our troops and dragging Americans down into the same filthy gutter they inhabit.

Congratulations, "president" Bush. Yet another example of the repugnant stain you've laid on our country.

Asshole.

:grr:

[Tempest]

5. These guys have been watching too much Monty Python

"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!"