[lbo-talk] Taliban Floundering in Afghanistan

mike larkin mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 11 08:43:06 PDT 2006


http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HG12Df03.html

"...Despite Jangvi's optimism, though, the fact is that the Taliban have only inflicted about 100 casualties on coalition forces in the past three months, while the body count of Taliban and civilians in southwestern Afghanistan, most of them Taliban supporters, is estimated at more than 2,000.

And critically, in some areas the insurgency has degenerated into an unholy mess of internecine strife, so much so that even Karzai has decried the bloodshed and called on coalition forces to alter their tactics as "even the Taliban are sons of the soil".

As things stand, with the insurgency losing some of its focus as tribes fight each other, it only has a limited effect on the morale of the mighty American war machine and does not bode well for the chances of the campaign turning the Taliban into an emboldened force to make a comeback...."

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