Sunday, August 30, 2009

Good Observation

In Iraq, the enemy relied on IEDs to fight us--not a tactic likely to win as was demonstrated in Iraq.

So how are the "resurgent" Afghans doing? Surely they are pretty impressive in driving us out, right?

Not quite, as one Marine who also fought in Iraq stated:

"I'm not impressed with them," Leon, 25, of Herndon, Va., said this past week from a Marines camp deep in the southern province of Helmand, where U.S. forces are challenging Taliban insurgents and their devastating use of IEDs, or homemade bombs. "I expected more of a stand-and-fight. All these guys do is IEDs."


On the other hand, they do evade to live a bit longer. Which makes them tougher to kill.

And of course, they both used human shields to fight us.

Just stop thinking of the Afghans as ten-foot tall warriors who can't be beat.