{"id":81587,"date":"2018-09-03T08:15:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81587"},"modified":"2018-09-03T08:08:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:08:35","slug":"theyre-ba-a-a-ack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81587","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019re Ba-a-a-ack!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. Army\u00a0Gen. Austin Scott Miller<\/a>\u00a0assumed command of the 41-nation NATO mission in Afghanistan in a handover ceremony on Sunday.<\/p>\n

This comes during a period in which both the Taliban and a bumped-up Islamic State affiliate have extensively increased their activity levels recently in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/09\/02\/us-general-assumes-nato-command-in-afghanistan\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Nicholson called on the Taliban to accept the government\u2019s offer of a cease-fire and\u00a0renewed peace negotiations<\/a>, saying \u201cyou don\u2019t need to keep killing your fellow Afghans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, while we have been expending time, equipment, money and personnel on trying to \u201chelp\u201d Pakistan and Afghanistan rid themselves of these two forms of pestilence, the Bad Guys are a lot like cockroaches and little black ants. You may kill off those you see in daylight, but at night they come out of the walls when they think you aren\u2019t looking. Pesticides won\u2019t kill them. A degreaser like Formula 409 does the job with ants and roaches much more efficiently and quickly, and it\u2019s even better if you can find the nests and douse them with that stuff.<\/p>\n

My advice to the good general and also to the Afghan and Paki governments is to find a really good \u201cdegreasing agent\u201d of some sort that will smite them and kill the nests, too. Otherwise, Afghanistan and Pakistan are stuck with them.<\/p>\n

Also, if we\u2019re going to engage in siege warfare, learn to do it the right way. Cut off their supplies of all kinds, including medicine and water. Devastate the surrounding areas. It worked quite well at Sennacherib and Carthage. Gee, it even worked at Mosul a year or so ago.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Army\u00a0Gen. Austin Scott Miller\u00a0assumed command of the 41-nation NATO mission in Afghanistan in a handover … They\u2019re Ba-a-a-ack!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}