The Taliban recently got waxed hitting our Anaconda firebase. And they hit the same base two more times on Saturday:
Afghan and coalition soldiers at Firebase Anaconda in Uruzgan province fought off the attackers Saturday. Several Taliban militants were killed, and two insurgents were wounded and taken into custody.
Earlier, another attack at the base led to fighting that killed four militants.
Are the Taliban really dumb enough to keep hitting an alerted base? Or is there another base nearby that the Taliban have their eye on, counting on repeated attacks on Anaconda to distract us?
But don't the Taliban know that Afghanistan is the "good" war? Our Left won't be panicked by the enemy overrunning a small outpost in Afghanistan. Right?
UPDATE: If somebody is desperately trying for a headline-grabbing and trend-reversing destruction of one of our outposts, it isn't coming from Taliban Central:
The Taliban continues to lose its war with the government and foreign troops. A shift in Taliban tactics has been detected, with local Taliban leaders now cutting deals with local drug gangs or warlords, and jointly trying to control the population (largely through terror) and making life uncomfortable for government troops and officials. Meanwhile, Taliban are advising each other to stay away from the foreign troops, who are now seen as extremely deadly. Slow thinking Taliban leaders keep providing examples of how this works, as in the recent case where about a hundred Taliban tried to rush a camp manned by foreign troops. The Taliban were quickly repulsed, with half of them dead or wounded. Two of the defenders were wounded.
Either somebody didn't get the word or they don't like the new and approved strategy shift.
