[No Truce With Kings]

You know, blam, I could have sworn it was not even a month ago I had someone on this forum assure me that this type of thing wasn't possible. That the Taliban had these caves they were going to hide in and be safe from us, that our aircraft would be ineffective, that the Russians had not beat the Taliban, and neither could we.

I said that was nonsense. I said that We own the night, not the Taliban or the Afghans. I said that we would be sending in sweeps, successfully on search and destroy missions, that it would be Vietnam all over, with us playing the NVA. Again I was assured that I was full of it.

Guess World War I is over, and no one told either the Taliban or that list member.

[Objective Reality]

You know, blam, I could have sworn it was not even a month ago I had someone on this forum assure me that this type of thing wasn't possible. That the Taliban had these caves they were going to hide in and be safe from us, that our aircraft would be ineffective

Those caves aren't going to be very fun places to hide once we start pumping in blister gas. Not banned by Geneva, and gas masks do nothing. Oh, you'd want to have one, so you won't start spewing mucous all over the cave, but the effect on the epidermis is, um, unpleasant, and clothing just makes it worse. Or, if they're feeling generous, they can just blast infrasound down the shaft, causing all the residents to either A) vomit and defecate uncontrollably, or B) have their organs explode. I doubt we'll have to venture too deeply into the caves.

[blam]

"Guess World War I is over, and no one told either the Taliban or that list member."

One thing that is not being mentioned by anyone is the fact that they can't say one word over a wire or an instrument of any kind without being heard. Some of this activity is just to get those phone lines lighted up, chart the location then, boom! The only safe way they have to communicate is by courier. They're in deep poo poo.