War In Afghanistan?

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 11:42 AM 11/13/00 -0500, Gordon wrote:
>I received the following material from a more-or-less
>right-wing mailing list someone subscribed me to for some
>reason -- probably something I posted on Usenet.  I have no
>idea whatever of its veracity.
>
>An attack on Afghanistan would probably be a fairly popular
>way to get America _back_on_track_ after the extended humor
>of the election follies.  Nobody likes Afghanistan.  So it
>doesn't seem all that outlandish to me.

Quite unlikely.  Have you looked at the map?  Technology offers little
advantage in this mountainous terrain - caualties would be extremely heavy.

 Not a popular war at all.

wojtek