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Originally posted by [Labret]
What in the hell does that have to do with anything?
And its nice how you left out the story before and the story after, even though I have no idea what you are getting at. That was a very long, very drawn out, very complicated conflict that people have spent lifetimes studying. And I see no even remotely similar resemblance at all to what just happened in Afghanistan. Nor how it is applicable to the conversation or argument at hand.
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The history of such lopsided conflicts is that the losers are usually vanquished. Sometimes, a group looks back and says "Remember when we defeated the so and so back in when and when?" and think that one case is representative rather than looking at the overall trend. The mightier almost always win.
The Taliban made that error. So did Carthage.