Skynet is Born, 2008

[Luft97]

???
We are still losing soldiers and millions of dollars. Opium growers are doing record business.
Osama Bin ladin was not caught.
Can you explain how it is different from the Soviet occupation.
The Soviets were there years before they left.
When did we win?

Yes, we are still spending money in occupation. Osama was not meant to be caught. The Soviets lost 4836 troops from 1979-1989.

We have lost 419 in Afghanistan since 2001.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Mar23/0,4670,AfghanUSDeaths,00.html

Do you think that we do not allow the Opium trade?

What I meant is with the Technology of today, Satellite Imaging, real time video/audio communication, laser guided missiles, etc.. etc.. Trying to fight a Guerilla War against an adversary with all of these technologies is a losing proposition in the end.

 

[pcosmar]

What I meant is with the Technology of today, Satellite Imaging, real time video/audio communication, laser guided missiles, etc.. etc.. Trying to fight a Guerilla War against an adversary with all of these technologies is a losing proposition in the end.

And when we leave, those people will go on, unconquered.

 

[Luft97]

And when we leave, those people will go on, unconquered.

I would be thinking more in terms of IF we leave. To our government it might be an acceptable loss to lose roughly 65 lives per year in occupation of that country.

 

[Corydoras]

Can you imagine Stephen Hawking riding one of those things up a mountain?