Thursday, May 12, 2011

We Killed Them the Same Old Way

I figured that based on past offensives, the recent Taliban spring offensive wouldn't amount to much. Oh, the Taliban are still out there and the war is far from won. But the Taliban are a lot of talk as long as we stand and fight:

The Taliban are spinning their recent "Spring Offensive" defeats as victories, because they demonstrated that the Taliban was still around, and still able to attack and be defeated, as it has done so often in the past. For the last month or so, the Taliban have been promising a major "Spring Offensive," to begin on May 1st. Since Osama bin Laden was killed by the Americans on May 2nd, the Taliban reflagged their Spring Offensive as the Bin Laden Revenge Offensive. Different name, same result. All the attacks failed, and most of the dead were Taliban.

This is the "resurgent" Taliban in action.