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Pfo
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American soldiers wear uniforms. Taliban don't. What's the difference between an Afghan and a Taliban solider? Nothing, if you go by appearances. |
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Precinct 1099
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Because they are from the area and know it well. They have been fighting someone for the last hundered years. You get pretty good at it after a while. Plus they are more committed to thier cause than the Americans. |
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JundaKell
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ROFLMAO
Oh really? Is that why American troops have killed off the Taliban once and now the Taliban have been recruiting teenagers and in the last couple months, American troops captured over 1,500 teenage Taliban. Where do you kids get your lies from anyway? |
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fantabu1ous
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We need more snipers staked out around the areas known to have talibananas no point sending in a party when one will do the job. |
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whodatyat
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You should take a look at the casualty count. It reveals that the NATO forces, in Afghanistan, are very capable of ambushing the enemy. Just because they don't want to brag about the kill ratio, doesn't mean that they aren't killing more than are being killed.
One problem with your analogy to game hunting, is that game doesn't shoot back. Another is that game doesn't plan ambushes against the hunters. |
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john c
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One reason is that the Taliban do not try to minimize collateral damage ( innocent civilians killed ) Another reason is that the Taliban hide themselves behind the innocent civilian population and place women and children between them and their enemies. That's something the Nazis wouldn't even do.
The main reason is that the American politicians refuse to let the military win this war. I would rather see 100,000 innocent civilians killed in a war that lasts 6 months than see 250,000 innocents killed in a war that lasts 5 years. |
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donj33
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Its not that they are specifically better at it, its that they have the luxury of fighting that type of warfare. Guaranteed, our special forces do this, but our regular army's mission is not centered towards this. We have to patrol, humanitarian missions, civil affairs, search and destroy, and many others. Our goals are different and so we adjust our tactics accordingly. Watch "Lion for Lambs" or just read about the surge in Iraq. It wasn't until we moved out of our Fortress like bases and started patrolling in smaller groups and outpost that we started winning this war. Many people were critical at first pointing to all the casualties we were taking at the beginning of the surge. But Gen. Petreaus told everyone that this is how it would work.
We are superior in firepower even in an ambush. We kill more of them and we can secure more ground by moving out in smaller teams covering more areas. The downside is the casualties. And honestly, although the military will never admit it, its also a tactic in counter-insurgency to get an elusive enemy to actually engage you in combat. That's why you see ambushes up on the rise. It works, just at a high price. That's why the Intel guys send more in, they know that in that specific area of operation the enemy will engage us. |
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ScotsAirForceCopper
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dont be daft!!
back in civilian world you hear immediatly when toops are lost, but you do not hear the great work the Forces of ALL the nations out there are doing. to every one of the coalition forces lost atleast 30 taliban are killed.
we hardly ever lose our guys, they mostly get injured and sometimes badly hurt, but to say the Taliban are better than any of the Forces out there is nothing short of Insulting |
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James Dantes
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Its very simple. Having a story on Americans getting killed is more media friendly than a story on killing terrorist.
The news is a business. Controversy and failure make better stories than success. Thus, the majority of things shown to the public is negative.
If you believe everything you see on TV or read in newspapers/magazines, then you really have no idea what you are talking about.
Our troops are far more effective at ambush tactics. The media would just rather make a story about the few times we get ambushed instead of the countless times we have stalked and killed the enemy. |
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dubster
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We have uniforms and they don't. The person who ambushed you with an IED could be standing 100 yards away and you would not know it. Thats the problem with fighting rebels..... They dont follow rules. Reminds me of the rebels that hid behind rocks and trees and shot at the British. Those men were called cowards. Oh wait. That was us fighting for our independance. |
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Ati
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taliban's come in packs like wolves there also suicidal and Americans are not! |
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I love the good ol' U.S.A.!!
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They know their own land better than we do.So they know the best spots for ambushing. No they are not better than us but they have the home advantage. |
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oldmarine08
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I agree with you in a lot of this with the exception of hunting down deer, I do it successfully! |
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Gervin D
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they know the areas in iraq better than american soldiers do so they know a perfect spot to put IEDs |
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River 2 Electric Boogaloo
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It's the 'home court' advantage most of the time.
American soldiers are running around in a country where almost none of them can speak the language, where they are feared/hated, and are basically walking targets.
I don't blame the soldiers though. I blame incompetence at the highest levels (i.e. Bush/Cheney) for not having any kind of plan to either win or get the hell out.
Instead, the US occupation of both Iraq and Afghanistan has been a terrorist recruiters wet dream come true.
Eliminating Saddam Hussein (while he was a bloodthirsty dictator) was a gift to Iran, (not to mention that Saddam enjoyed considerable funding from prior GOP US Presidents).
Sure he was a bloodthirsty dictator - but by god - he was our bloodthirsty dictator (at least for a little while).
The US military is at a serious disadvantage primarily because their training, organization, and most of their equipment is intended for combat with an army similar to itself.
Terrorists and 'Insurgents' can use tactics that the US military will never be able to use, and again - are usually on their home soil, where they know the lay of the land, have the indigineous people more or less on 'their side', and of course, it is impossible to discount the importance of religous zealotry when it comes to people not being afraid to die.
Most of these people actually think they are going to get some great reward in heaven for killing American Soldiers.
Unfortunately, a lot of people in the US are equally delusional that we are doing 'gods work' by wiping out islamic extremism.
The fact is - if there is a 'god', they are either dead, long gone, or ready to shoot themselves in the face after watching how idiotic, violent, and bigoted people of every race and religion are. |
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Sam P
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Because Americans aren't cheaters and they don't ambush the Taliban nearly as much as they do to us. The Taliban and Iraqis also know the land of their country very well and know the strategies that could be used against their enemy. |
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