The Good War
(Backarchived from 9/10/06.)
Alot of news out of Afghanistan and most of it is bad. The violence is stretching from the extreme south of the country through the eastern Pakistan border up into the north. The conflict is pushing towards Kabul from three sides.
Over the last week in Operation Medusa, 450 Taleban personnel have been killed. Either "the coalition" is dealing a serious blow, or the Taleban side is flowing with personnel because they continue to fight stand up battles for territory despite casualties. (The fighting is just 19 miles from Kandahar.)
AFP - "The force also inflicted "severe losses" in separate artillery and air strikes on rebels who were spotted gathering for a counterattack." They lost a hundred men and were gathering for a counterattack.
A high ranking British officer has resigned, stating the tactics used in Helmand province are clumsy and leading Afghanis to take up arms.
The governor of the eastern Paktia province was killed by a suicide bomber strapped with explosives.
US military spokesman Col Tom Collins, "Through our intelligence sources we know there's a cell here in Kabul, at least one, whose primary mission is to seek coalition or international troops and hit them with suicide bombs." - Karzai admits that there will be more bombing attacks in the capitol.
John Kerry has staked out the position that we should withdraw forces from Iraq and pour them into Afghanistan. My comment would be that as long as Pakistan is allowing safe haven, the best those troops could do is offer temporary stability which is something.
The headwaters of the Afghanistan, Taleban, Al Qaeda problem is in Pakistan.
Alot of news out of Afghanistan and most of it is bad. The violence is stretching from the extreme south of the country through the eastern Pakistan border up into the north. The conflict is pushing towards Kabul from three sides.
Over the last week in Operation Medusa, 450 Taleban personnel have been killed. Either "the coalition" is dealing a serious blow, or the Taleban side is flowing with personnel because they continue to fight stand up battles for territory despite casualties. (The fighting is just 19 miles from Kandahar.)
AFP - "The force also inflicted "severe losses" in separate artillery and air strikes on rebels who were spotted gathering for a counterattack." They lost a hundred men and were gathering for a counterattack.
A high ranking British officer has resigned, stating the tactics used in Helmand province are clumsy and leading Afghanis to take up arms.
The governor of the eastern Paktia province was killed by a suicide bomber strapped with explosives.
US military spokesman Col Tom Collins, "Through our intelligence sources we know there's a cell here in Kabul, at least one, whose primary mission is to seek coalition or international troops and hit them with suicide bombs." - Karzai admits that there will be more bombing attacks in the capitol.
John Kerry has staked out the position that we should withdraw forces from Iraq and pour them into Afghanistan. My comment would be that as long as Pakistan is allowing safe haven, the best those troops could do is offer temporary stability which is something.
The headwaters of the Afghanistan, Taleban, Al Qaeda problem is in Pakistan.
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