Hi,
Exactly. Except in spy novels, assassination is a greatly overrated technique. It usually fails (ask Castro) and when it does succeed, it often backfires.
Less likely? You mean they've extended the cooperation scale into the negative?
EDIT, Afterthought. Are the USA leaders using the '55 to '75 history of Vietnam as the playbook for Afghanistan? If so, they might want to flip ahead to the end. Spoiler: we lost.
--Pete
(07-27-2010, 07:33 PM)Lissa Wrote: You don't kill someone like this in this day and age, you discredit them or get them jailed for trumped up, but highly likely charges. Killing someone makes them a martyr now, tarnishing their image makes people no longer pay attention to them.
Exactly. Except in spy novels, assassination is a greatly overrated technique. It usually fails (ask Castro) and when it does succeed, it often backfires.
Quote:The only thing this publishing is going to do is make it less likely that Afghan's will work with the NATO forces.
Less likely? You mean they've extended the cooperation scale into the negative?
EDIT, Afterthought. Are the USA leaders using the '55 to '75 history of Vietnam as the playbook for Afghanistan? If so, they might want to flip ahead to the end. Spoiler: we lost.
--Pete
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