[lbo-talk] Obama: killing for 2012

[Joseph Catron]

I come dangerously close to agreeing with Shane as well, but suspect his use
of the term Pashtunistan may be unnecessarily vague. The Durranis, with whom
the West is currently aligned against the Ghilzai, are also Pashtuns. As
Christopher Booker summarizes (
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6570380/Why-we-will-lose-in-Afghanistan.html)
and Richard North explains at great length (
http://www.defenceoftherealm.blogspot.com), our current Afghan adventure can
only be considered as an intervention into a 300-year civil war between
rival groups of Pashtuns.

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:

There's no such thing as a "war on Afghanistan," not least because
> "Afghanistan" is a cartographical fiction, not a reality.  The war is "on"
> Pashtunistan, which does not exist on maps but does in reality.
>

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