Dalma,

Any comparison of Aghanistan's current predicament with Cambodias during the Pol Pot years is completely fatuous.
As is any claim that the literacy rates for Afgan soldiers has any bearing on the conflict. The Taleban, as you may know, are not big readers themselves.

The loony-left are always claiming that assymetric wars are unwinnable. Its their sop to the more rational among their supporters who might demand that the cost in lives of our service people requires us to win any war we are engaged in.

They said exactly the same thing about Iraq. Its unwinnable they said. They said it over and over in fact. And yet Iraq has an elected gov't and has not descended into anarchy. It might not be western style liberal democracy but its a far sight better than Saddam and his Bathists. In fact the left are championing an almost identical result in Egypt at the current time.

What they actually mean is that they don't want us to win it.

The graveyard of empires stuff is also WAY over the top. But don't let mere fact get in the way of a bit of drama.

Hear Ye. Hear ye All.
Subject: Truth
Distribution : OLO/Deniers/Misogynist etc.
Date : 10 Jun 2011.

" For those who seek the TRUTH,
there are those, too dense
They cannot see, the Forest for the Trees
in broad Daylight ".

Dalma Smithy
Marina Mirage.4212.QLD.