War Stuff below the fold

Some bloggers were questioning why the planned attack against an Afghan city was getting so much publicity.

StrategyPage explains it's the "Fallujah" Scenerio: Tell everyone to get out, and only the bad guys are left behind for you to fight.
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"concerned" anthropologists lament that some of them might volunteer to help NATO troops understand Afghan culture, saying it is “an unacceptable application of anthropological expertise.” to help " counterinsurgency operations"...
Yeah, they wouldn't want to stop stuff like THIS...or THIS...or THIS...
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One problem when prosecuting genocide: Coaching witnesses.
How do they know the witnesses are "fake"? The SOB has found witnesses to claim the witnesses weren't child soldiers, or they weren't children or they weren't soldiers

How bad is the problem of child soldiers...
In 2008, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers reported that some 30,000 had been reintegrated back into society.

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