[R-G] Fw: Taliban and U.S. Military Strategy

[Macdonald Stainsby]

> First, Taliban leaders can decide to send non-combatants across the
> border to Pakistan and disperse its forces in the countryside, immune
> from strategic air power. It would leave a covering force in and in
> front of Kabul to raise the price of an attack by the Northern
> Alliance, but the bulk of its forces would be saved and ready to
> fight in the spring.

If the Taliban can come up with a situation whereby they can do this- disperse
over the border into Pakistan- that could change pretty much everything. Will
Dubya pull a Tricky Dick and carpet bomb that region of Pakistan to get at the
Taliban? Would that not truly create a regional conflict?

What's more, won't that finally make irrelevant the comrades who are unable to
decide where they stand?

Macdonald