[Jamo]

fsstnotch

Since you're the only one not opining from an armchair...everything seems to indicate that we're dealing with some of the geo-political issues we had in Vietnam, i.e., cross-border issues. As with Laos and Vietnam, the rascals we're trying to nail down jump back and forth across the tribal regions, which owe little alligence to state borders, making it all but impossible to trap them. Then I read that folks kicked out of the Pakistani regions come into Afghanistan ready to fight everybody.

And then we find out today that the Pakistan military got only a fraction of the money we sent them for fighting the basturds.

This is a bit different scenario than Iraq...a state military and nobody jumping across into Iran or Turkey (except for Kurds with their own agenda), and few able to make it to Syria undetected.

Seems also that we're fighting several groups of folks with varying agendas...the Taliban are trying to retake the country, Osama's folks are trying to carry on to regroup and attack targets outside of the region, and the varyious tribes are all fighting to maintain their own fiefdoms. In essence...one approach doesn't seem to fit all.

On top of all that...we have to play politics within NATO and two separate states.

FUBAR?