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INC and its American supporters, since the fall of the Taliban, some of its advocates have divorced the idea from the need to back the INC as the primary opposition group.

This view has gained a modest amount of currency because it fits the popular impression of how the United States won the war in Afghanistan and because there are those who assume that because Saddam is even more despicable than the Taliban, the Iraqis will be even quicker than the Afghans to throw off his yoke if they see the United States firmly committed to this course of action.

When the Taliban first entered Afghanistan in 1994, they were unlike anything the other Afghans had seen.

Taliban first entered Afghanistan in 1994, they were unlike anything the other Afghans had seen.

I confess that I did not expect the Taliban to collapse as suddenly as it did, but neither did anyone else, including the Pentagon, the intelligence community, and all of the people now claiming that we should employ the Afghan model in Iraq.

Finally, over time, Russia, India, and Iran all began providing degrees of support to the Northern Alliance, not on the level of Pakistani support to the Taliban, but to a degree that nonetheless helped them to stand up to the Taliban.

At the time, they were backing several different Afghan militias, but when the Taliban appeared and began to win battles, Islamabad was quick to embrace them as their new Afghan proxies.

In truth, this is not a fair comparison because the Iraqi armed forces in 1991 were more than two hundred times as large as the Taliban in 2001, so any military effort against Iraq would invariably have been much bigger and more costly, but proponents of the Afghan Approach still argue that the absence of large U.

Ideally, a combination of manned aircraft, cruise missiles and special-forces operations would be used in a sustained campaign to destroy the Al Qaeda infrastructure in Afghanistan, hunt down Al Qaeda personnel there, and destroy Taliban military capabilities.

And while traitors like the Taliban Rat Boy from un-Fairfax, California provide an interesting freak show for the sheeple, we cannot afford to overlook what the Rats and their internal terrorist movement is doing to sabotage our homeland.

Although the strategy was first conceived by the INC and its American supporters, since the fall of the Taliban, some of its advocates have divorced the idea from the need to back the INC as the primary opposition group.

They armed and trained the Taliban and provided considerable support in the form of logistics, communications, intelligence, airlift, fire support, and combat advisers.

As a result, the Taliban lost an important source of supplies, airlift, ground transportation, intelligence, and even command and control.

The lessons of Bosnia and Kosovo also played an important role in guiding the United Nations and international organizations after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, although there the scope of the effort has been quite different.

Assuming the Taliban chooses not to hand over bin Laden and his associates, the U.