Insightful piece on "Why we will lose in Afghanistan".

[chess9]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...ghanistan.html

"What we are hardly ever told about Afghanistan is that it has been for 300 years the scene of a bitter civil war, between two tribal groups of Pashtuns (formerly known as Pathans). On one side are the Durranis – most of the settled population, farmers, traders, the professional middle class. On the other are the Ghilzai, traditionally nomadic, fiercely fundamentalist in religion, whose tribal homelands stretch across into Pakistan as far as Kashmir."


-Robert

[Joe Pike]

Originally Posted by chess9

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...ghanistan.html

"What we are hardly ever told about Afghanistan is that it has been for 300 years the scene of a bitter civil war, between two tribal groups of Pashtuns (formerly known as Pathans). On one side are the Durranis – most of the settled population, farmers, traders, the professional middle class. On the other are the Ghilzai, traditionally nomadic, fiercely fundamentalist in religion, whose tribal homelands stretch across into Pakistan as far as Kashmir."


-Robert

Comparable to Germany from 850 to 1945 ...