[Promotum] Soviet grunts talk about Afganistan, so does Country Joe

[Edmund A. Hintz]

     If you read /., you've already seen this, but if you don't, the 
following article brings up some very interesting experiences regarding 
Afganistan and trying to control it via ground troops. Most interesting 
to me was the mindset that suffering in this life will be rewarded in the 
afterlife; therefore, property and even life will have little or no 
meaning to the Taliban forces. How do you strike against an enemy whose 
way of thinking essentially makes your weapons and methods useless? 
Personally, I think the only way it could possibly be done is with 
special forces, and we'll probably take some heavy losses in the process. 
OTOH, there are differences; the Sovs were trying to occupy, if we only 
make quick in/out attacks we can minimize much of the losses the Sovs 
faced. Anyway, here's the link, go draw your own conclusions. :-P

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075191sep19.story

     While reading it, the thought did occur to me that if we do end up 
bogged down in a ground war like happened in 'Nam, the 'I feel like I'm 
fixin' to die rag' by Country Joe and the Fish back in '65 could be very 
easily modified to reflect Afganistan rather than Vietnam... In fact, 
nowadays you could probably get away the the "real" fish cheer, rather 
than the censored one that ended up on the record...

http://www.countryjoe.com/ra/fixin.ram

http://www.well.com/~cjfish/game.htm#cheer

     Lastly, while looking up info on Country Joe, I found a page he's 
setup dealing with the  current situation. Personally, I found the speech 
of Fidel Castro and the open letter from the Dali Lama very interesting. 
I also note that several modified versions of the Fixin' to Die rag are 
already there... ;-)

http://www.countryjoe.com/crisis.htm


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