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| Afghanistan |
| NATO: Insurgency weakened |
| 2011-05-09 |
| From the News Source That Shall Not Be Named: On Monday, NATO announced that it has significantly weakened the Taliban insurgency, capturing or killing thousands of militants in Afghanistan during the past three months. Thanks to the surge, NATO has moved into areas that have until lately been left to the Taliban's tender mercies and inspirational justice. Winter operations have weakened the Taliban. Over the last three months, NATO has killed or captured about 500 Taliban leaders and 2,700 grunts. NATO has seized more weapons caches in the past six months than in the previous two years. In desperate response, the Taliban have been resorting to lots of "spectacular" suicide attacks to prove to those of weak mind that they are still relevant, but they haven't really succeeded in retaking anything. They have been getting their butts handed to them on a fairly regular basis, though. If things keep up and the Taliban don't have a hand to play for their vaunted "spring offensive", the coming troop drawdown could be larger. "This violence will have no lasting impact in light of the gains Afghan and coalition forces have made through the winter." Giving the bad guys no R&R over the winter: Good. Giving them time off during the winter (or ever, for that matter): Bad. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #5 Indeed tw, A quick peruse of Google news and xinhua was the only news agency I could find that reported the numbers killed/captured. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2011-05-09 20:37 |
| #4 We're the only ones paying attention to the corpse count, phil_b. They're reading the headline, which makes their man look good, then moving on to stories about bin Laden and panics on airplanes, or whatever. My ex-sister-in-law posted on her Facebook page how she hoped the killing would let the troops come home, and does anybody know what they think of us abroad...she just discovered politics and the world in 2008, and she thinks Republicans are horrid and mean. I have no idea where she gets her news. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-05-09 19:25 |
| #3 Well I was wrong about one thing. I said that the only way to defeat the Taliban was to kill Pushtuns by the thousand, and Western public opinion (or the leftist media that claims to speak for it) wouldn't tolerate that. I guess their transnational ideology is more important to these people than the corpse count. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2011-05-09 18:05 |
| #2 That "winter" you refer to wouldn't happen to be the legendary Brutal Afghan Winter,TM would it? |
| Posted by: Mike 2011-05-09 14:49 |
| #1 I was worried they were talking about Libya. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-05-09 14:27 |