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The assault on Kandahar - last of the Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan - is coming soon. The Marines are on the ground, holding down the airfield outside the city with help Army, Navy and Air Force personnel. U.S. bombing raids Sunday and Monday succeeded in destroying all but one route in...
Is the U.S. really about to change its winning formula - let the Northern Alliances fight the ground war while U.S. bombers provide safe support from the skies - and send in the Marines to fight a ground battle for Kandahar? TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson weighs in.
Is the U.S. really going to send in the Marines to help the anti-Taliban forces take Kandahar?
It would probably be an even bigger mistake to send the U.S. Marines into Kandahar. Having marines in their desert fatigues strolling victoriously through the dusty lanes of Kandahar, while residents cower from the doorways, might play well for the Bush Administration back home, but it would go against U.S...
The Marines are never a long-term deployment. They're equipped and outfitted for 30 days. Plainly, they can stay longer, but it's not the Army that's going in here. As Rumsfeld has made clear, the U.S. has no desire to hang onto any piece of Afghan real...