June 9, 2004
WHERE THE WAR ENDS:
70 Taliban Reportedly Killed in Combat (NOOR KHAN, 6/09/04, Associated Press)
An Afghan commander said Wednesday that Afghan and U.S. forces killed more than 70 Taliban rebels in a seven-day operation in a mountainous southern district, including at least 20 militants who died in a single clash.Coalition and Afghan forces returned late Tuesday from the scene of the fighting — the rugged Daychopan district of Zabul province — as the Taliban fighters they had been hunting had either been killed or fled the area, said Jan Mohammed Khan.
Khan, who is commander of Afghan forces and also the governor of neighboring Uruzgan province, said 73 Taliban fighters were killed and 13 captured over seven days, while six Afghan government forces and four coalition soldiers were wounded, and none killed.
Of all the diabolically clever things the evil Bush Administration has done, far and away the craftiest is how much they've made the quagmires in Afghanistan and Iraq look like they're going better than anyone had any right to expect. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 9, 2004 1:19 PM
700 would be better than 70, but that is much better than 7. When are we going to kill Heykmatyr?
The only quagmire in the world today is in the addled minds of the feckless left. The media is stuck in their own quagmire and they don't even know it.
Posted by: jim hamlen at June 9, 2004 1:37 PMThere aren't 700 left.
Posted by: oj at June 9, 2004 2:18 PMTen years from now, the word "quagmire" will have a new de-facto meaning. To wit: "utter resounding success"
Posted by: fred at June 9, 2004 2:45 PMYou may be right (about the 700 Taliban), but I'll bet the enrollment at the more psychotic madrassas is much higher than that.
Posted by: jim hamlen at June 9, 2004 3:02 PMThe writer missed a golden opportunity:
"70 Taliban suffered the wrath of Kahn today. . . ."
Posted by: Mike Morley at June 9, 2004 4:43 PMThe writer missed a golden opportunity:
"70 Taliban suffered the wrath of Kahn today. . . ."
Posted by: Mike Morley at June 9, 2004 4:43 PMThe commenter clicked twice. Sorry.
Posted by: Mike Morley at June 9, 2004 4:45 PMThe biggest advantage we have over the terrorists in comparison to previous guerilla wars is that the terrorists ultimately do not have a daddy state supporting them like the USSR. It's hard to wage a guerilla war when you don't have a safe logistics base.
The next stage of the terror war will be to eliminate the vestigal supports such as the "charities" in Saudi Arabia created by oil wealth, or the Tehran regime.
Posted by: Chris Durnell at June 9, 2004 5:55 PM