The Myth Of A Resurgent Taliban

IBD ^ | August 31, 2007

[Kaslin]

War On Terror: The steady demise of key Taliban leaders belies the drumbeat of a Taliban resurgence. From the Battle of the Bulge to the Tet offensive, our defeated enemies have often gone out in a blaze of glory.

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Last fall, an article in USA Today spoke of a "reborn Taliban" and a "Taliban comeback" that, rather than confronting U.S. and NATO forces head-on, had adopted the homicide bombing, beheadings and remote-controlled roadside bomb tactics of the Iraqi insurgency. That mantra has been repeated by others many times since.

"We're getting stronger in every province and in every district and every village," Qari Mohammed Yousef Ahmadi, Taliban spokesman for southern Afghanistan, told USA Today.

"We don't have helicopters and jet fighters. But we're giving America and its allies a tough time with roadside bombs, suicide attacks and ambushes. Our Muslim brothers in Iraq are using the same tactics.."

They also don't have a snowball's chance in Kandahar of prevailing as long as American and NATO determination remains firm. As in Iraq, they are trying to play the media fiddle. Interviews full of bravado and photos of car bombs — been there, done that.

[jveritas]

Like Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Taliban are on their death bed. We are winning this war big in both theaters.

God bless our brave troops and President Bush

[Kaslin]

Indeed

[ARE SOLE]

Good post Kaslin. these losers were never resurgent. What happened was Nato forces deliberately and aggressively poked the hornets nest in the south along the Pakistan border. The Taliban got severely spanked every time they came out to play. They died in large numbers.

Regards

[mefistofelerevised]

I want to believe what you say is true. No, I don’t believe the msm, but could you recommend some links that give clear information on the situation in Afganistan?

[jveritas]

Search for thread titles with “Afghanistan” and “Taliban” on FR and you see how we are annihilating the Taliban in Afghanistan.

[Ceebass]

Regarding the “resurgence” of the taliban.

Several years ago I read a quote from a taliban chieftain who stated:

“It’s not that the taliban are becoming bandits...
it’s that the bandits are becoming taliban.