Rumsfeld Outlines Battle That Crushed the Taliban [Horses /Mules]

NYSE Dow Jones Broadtape ^ | 1/31/02 | Alex Keto

[dighton]

Bump for a great story. I hope we'll read about it some day in more detail.

[BunnySlippers]

Nice commentary, thanks. I was heartened to hear that, as a result of our "successes" in Afghanistan, that the moderates and reformers in Islam have gained some ground. GW is right. This is only the beginning.

[jwalsh07]

A salute for the charge of the Beret Brigde!

[caisson71]

One correction. We didn't loose the VietNam war, we QUIT. Maybe we didn't have smart bombs or all this newer technology but we knew what we needed to do with what we had.

[Cicero]

Great report. I'm sending it to a few friends.

[Hipixs]

U.S. special forces troops ride horseback as they work with members of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom on Nov. 12, 2001. DoD photo

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U.S. special forces troops are using pack animals to carry equipment as they work with members of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom on Nov. 12, 2001. DoD photo.

[aculeus]

Bump for a great story. I hope we'll read about it some day in more detail.

Not to mention the movie(s).

[onedoug]

"Our defeat in Nam...." was political.

[Travis McGee]

bttt

[Cicero]

I just read through this again. It's the Charge of the Light Brigade all over again, only this time it worked, because it was properly planned.

Some day this will make a great movie. It's too bad John Wayne isn't around to star in it.

[VOA]

bump

[Wallace T.]

Too bad John Ford and John Huston are no longer with us. Either of them would do this story justice.

[FirstFlaBn]

A few carried RPGs (rocket-propelled guns)

Yet another example of an unqualified journalist who knows nothing about military matters assigned to the Pentagon. If they can't get the basics right, what kind of chance do they have with the complex?

[F.J. Mitchell]

Can President Bush pickem or what? Condaleeza Rice is also cute and all Woman. She can kick butt too.

A president's cabinet is like a mirror that reflects his on image-or maybe his soul.

[BunnySlippers]

[Argus]

Excellent Duke Wayne bump.

[caisson71]

I'd love to see this guy at basic training calling it "his gun". It would be a gut-buster.

[Argus]

Raoul Walsh or Michael Curtiz and Errol Flynn, too. THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON and THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.

[BunnySlippers]

Oops, I don't know how I put this in Breaking News. I didn't mean to.

[sistergoldenhair]

In any event we appear to have learned our lessons well

Yes. It appears we are no longer fighting the last war.
Along with proven tactics, we continue to hear reports of creative, innovative methods.

The bad guys will never love us, but they are beginning to fear us.

Remember the Taliban boasting that Afghanastan could not lose; the media hand-wringing of a Viet Nam quagmire?
We have always been a force to fear.
Perhaps we have finally gotten past our weak sister mentality.