Trash Talking the Taliban During Firefights -- ABC News
ABC News' Miguel Marquez Embedded With Marines in Marja, Afghanistan
It's a remarkable combination of psychological warfare, political roundtable and trash-talking. Afghan soldiers and Taliban fighters taunt each other, debate each other and try to persuade each other almost daily over their radios, at times while even shooting at each other.
I came across the astonishing facet of the Afghan War while spending time with the 302nd kandak, or battalion, of the Afghan National Army. The foes chatter with each other over their Vietnam-era, two-way radio system. It's such an antiquated system that the Taliban and the Afghan forces share radio frequencies, and verbal barbs, as they try to kill or capture one another.
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My Comment: Both sides may be passionate about their politics, but I suspect that the removal of the gun from Afghanistan politics is going to take a very long time.
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