MARTIAL LAW Cypherpunks and terrorism

[Jim Choate]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 jamesd at echeque.com wrote:

> The Taliban is not the Soviet Union.  They are roughly on par 
> with a Somali clan.  I predict casualties somewhat higher 
> than Somalia, but not much higher.  

If we put soldiers on the ground expect cacualites. Lots of them.

The Somali were a bunch of rabble. Afghanistan is a cohesive culture with
a much longer history of (succesfull in many cases) military action.
They've also had a lot more practive over the last 20 years than the
Somali.


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