Something to ponder

[pecunium]

When some member of this administration goes someplace like Iraq, or Afghanistan, it's a secret.

Not just the President leaving his guests to go have turkey in Baghdad, but Rumsfeld, Rice, etc.

So how did the Taliban know Cheney was going to be there?

Comments

[cactusthesaint.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's necessarily true that the Taliban have been specifically targeting non-U.S. NATO targets. I think they're just attacking any targets of opportunity.

During OEF 6, the U.S. Army were deployed (among other places) all up and down the Eastern border of Afghanistan, mostly along Highway 1 (plus or minus a hundred klicks or so), and they were attacked quite regularly. If there were more attacks targeted at other NATO members from Spring 2006 onwards, that's probably because the U.S. Army had handed over responsibilities for a large chunk of the aforementioned territory to the Canadians. Aside from sounding funny when they talked on the radio, the Canadians were pretty competent and if I were a terrorist, I wouldn't think it was any more likely I would survive if I mounted a direct attack on the Canadians rather than U.S. forces. I don't know what happened after that first hand, as I left in March 2006.