Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-ngp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!anthro From: anthro@ut-ngp.UUCP (Michael Fischer) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Rsk on guns and hunters Message-ID: <804@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 00:08:21 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.804 Posted: Wed Aug 8 00:08:21 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 03:08:25 EDT References: <474@bunker.UUCP> <342@oliven.UUCP>, <896@pucc-h> Organization: Comp. Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin Lines: 25 <> Although I disagree, as per earlier posting, with the notion that Afghans would take guns over cars, I also have to disagree with the notion that the Afghans are only a nuisance to the Soviets. The Soviets cannot 'win' in Afghanistan unless they totally demolish the region, or unless they simply withdraw and declare a win. It is difficult to win in a situation where the enemy refuses to hold territory, line up, take up permanent fortifications etc. Additionally, given the terrain, a very few people (2-5) with automatic weapons can hold an enormous number of organized troops. Afghanistan is an example of the outcome of actions taken by countrys arrogant enough to think they can trample a region to satisfy their own requirements of what a country should be like and the egoistic notion that their security is somehow more important than that of others. Although the issues that caused abandonment of the central government of Afghanistan by the tribals would not likely find favor in this country, (the straw was the central government attempting to give women the vote), I wholeheartedly support the tribals both in their attempt to regain the control over their own destiny and as a further example of the fate of foreign powers that still try to stick their noses where they don't belong. Michael Fischer anthro@ut-ngp