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Afghanistan Vice-President assasinated

Originally posted by: Lucky
its been confirmed. gov't places blame on terrorists. he was killed in kabul.
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I guess you really can't slap a civilized state right on top of a tribal and fanatical society. This is bad.
 
Originally posted by: Scipionix
Originally posted by: Lucky
its been confirmed. gov't places blame on terrorists. he was killed in kabul.
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I guess you really can't slap a civilized state right on top of a tribal and fanatical society. This is bad.
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It's also not a surprise. The new Afghan government has to work to build infrastructure from scratch, while the Taliban/Al Quaida simply needs to lay low for a while and occasionally do some terrorist act to gum up the works. This kind of thing will happen again and again...
 
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
It's also not a surprise. The new Afghan government has to work to build infrastructure from scratch, while the Taliban/Al Quaida simply needs to lay low for a while and occasionally do some terrorist act to gum up the works. This kind of thing will happen again and again...
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Yeah, exactly. Unless we send in an occupation force (and NOT UN peacekeepers) it looks like it could be a low-level civil war there for quite some time. That is if the Karzai government survives. I guess all we can do is prop him up as best we can and make sure he does all that liberal reform stuff. It might work.
 
It's also not a surprise. The new Afghan government has to work to build infrastructure from scratch, while the Taliban/Al Quaida simply needs to lay low for a while and occasionally do some terrorist act to gum up the works. This kind of thing will happen again and again...
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There is a book I read a long time ago. I cannot remember the title or the author.

The story took place in the future, there was a war brewing between two interplanetary societies. The bleeding hearts within these societies convinced their governments that war was unnecessarily violent and inhumane. They devised a computer simulation that would 'fight' this war without violence. The computer would compute the casualties on both sides periodically, and each society would kill this number of its own people in a 'humane' and 'dignified' manner.

The war lasted forever.

War is hell. An overwhelming and violent campaign that ends a conflict definitively is far more advantageous for all concerned than a series of small conflicts that may last indefinitely, even if the more forceful campaign may be a lot more bloody and result in more 'collateral damage'.
 
tcsenter, that was the plot of one of the original Star Trek episodes.

Note also that this Afghan VP was also the Minister of Public Works, a person in charge of promoting the construction of infrastructure. The Taliban/Al Quaida want to prevent the Afghan government from building any kind of modern secular institutions that would benefit Afghan society and weaken the fundamentalist Islamic influence. Also, if I were Taliban and working against the new government, I'd be targeting the smarter members of that government. If I were Karzai, I'd know this and take steps to prevent a few assassinations from bringing the government to its knees.
 
They devised a computer simulation that would 'fight' this war without violence. The computer would compute the casualties on both sides periodically, and each society would kill this number of its own people in a 'humane' and 'dignified' manner.
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Can't we just play double-elimination Rock'em Sock'em Robots? 😀
 
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