ABC jumps on "quagmire" bandwagon on October 12:
"When Taliban soldiers escorted foreign journalists to the outskirts of Jalalabad, they said civilians had been killed here. They said Taliban troops are still alive and well-armed and that the bombing isn't fazing them. 'We just laugh at these bombs', one of the Taliban escorts said... As for the US efforts to befriend people, those American food packets rained from the skies in parts of Northern Afghanistan this weekend. People walked for miles to get them. 'I don't know how to use these packages because I can't read,' says this woman. "I only know it's food.' It's early days, but so far this is a war without any clear-cut victories or defeats. That's true of the bombings and of the battle for public sympathy." - ABC's World News Tonight, October 12, MRC transcription, David Wright reporting.
I'm beginning not to like the way time passes so fast.