Allies' fresh assault forces mass retreat

Observer/UK ^ | 11/11/01 | Chris Stephen in Bagram, Tim Judah in Jabal Saraj and Jason Burke in London

[AZ Repub]

"Taliban forces across northern Afghanistan appeared to be in headlong rout.."

We've got'um 'on the run'!

[Don Myers]

"We've got'um 'on the run'! "

Are you declaring that It is Miller Time!

[ppaul]

There's some major ass-whoopin' goin' on!
That's for sure.

[LibKill]

We've got'um 'on the run'!

Too bad for them, now they will die tired.

[rockfish59]

my cause will continue after my death!

gee, such a pessimist! we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, uncle bin!

[Shaka]

The fact that he's telling the WHOLE World including his troops that he's probably gonna die is a good sign. It's not that he's declaring himself a martyr...this has got to be bad for the Taliban troops. We should start to see massive surrenders next.

Right on! Need the A-10's now, to sweep them up.

[TheGoodDoc]

"Taliban forces across northern Afghanistan appeared to be in headlong rout.."

Gosh I hope we can duplicate the wonderful retreat of the Iraqi forces fleeing the liberation of Kuwait. That road was a vision from hell of roasted Iraqis and melted vehicles.

[AZ Repub]

"We've got 'um on the run! "

On the run..... as in Smoke 'um out, get 'um on the run, and round 'um up.

[Economist_MA]

The Alliance said 95 Taliban soldiers were killed in fighting for the city, with an estimated 10,000 either fled or captured. According to one source, 28 Alliance soldiers died in Friday's attack.

Let's hope this is all for real and not just propaganda. Sorry for being pessimistic, I sure hope the news are valid, but 95 / 28 dead doesn't sound like a rout, and we may be looking at a fairly orderly retreat by the Taliban instead. Hope it ain't so...

[Taxbilly]

I love the smell of burning camel hair!

[Texasforever]

Let's hope this is all for real and not just propaganda. Sorry for being pessimistic, I sure hope the news are valid, but 95 / 28 dead doesn't sound like a rout, and we may be looking at a fairly orderly retreat by the Taliban instead. Hope it ain't so...

I share your concern but the explanation may be simple. The Taliban, the "fiercest" fighting force" since the world’s 8th largest army, Iraq, is running, surrendering and doing every thing but fight. The likely situation is that we have been fed a load of propaganda about the 10 ft tall Taliban. We shall see.

[ppaul]

TO ANY TALIBAN LURKERS (and their sympathizers/supporters):

Here is the fate that awaits you. SURRENDER NOW!

Fellow Traveler on the Highway of Death

"Highway of Death," a name the press has given to the road from Mutlaa, Kuwait, to Basra, Iraq. U.S. planes immobilized the convoy by disabling vehicles at its front and rear, then bombing and straffing the resulting traffic jam for hours. More than 2,000 vehicles and tens of thousands of charred and dismembered bodies littered the sixty miles of highway.

:

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

"Highway of Death,"

Sounds good, they deserve it!

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[Friedrich Hayek]

Taliban forces across northern Afghanistan appeared to be in headlong rout after the dramatic fall of the key city of Mazar-e-Sharif to the Northern Alliance forces supported by US bombers and Special Forces.

Didn't this exact same rag publish a story two days ago saying that the American bombing campaign was a complete failure?

[kattracks]

Didn't this exact same rag publish a story two days ago saying that the American bombing campaign was a complete failure?

Just wishful thinking on their part.

[Cobra64]

But there is anxiety too. Washington and London fear that the collapse of the Taliban could be so widespread that the Alliance could walk into Kabul, triggering a massive wave of refugees and a political crisis for a country with no clear idea of what will replace Taliban rule.

Yes. We've pretty much cleaned their clock. Now, Think about the above. Street gangs in chaos? If you believe in a Constitutional Republic; how is it going to formed? Whom will particpate in writing it? The United Nations? This is what Bush and Powell have been alluding to for weeks. Think!

[schmelvin]

Washington and London fear that the collapse of the Taliban could be so widespread that the Alliance could walk into Kabul, triggering a massive wave of refugees and a political crisis for a country with no clear idea of what will replace Taliban rule.

We should just let the Northern Alliance have Afghanistan--sounds like they've earned it and expect it. We are there to destroy the taliban. Once we've done that, we should leave it be and let the new regime know that they will suffer the same fate if they mess with us. I fear we're going to stick our nose into their affairs, set up one of our disasterous puppet governments, (which earns us no love and usually stabs us in the back anyway) and then be stuck dealing with the consequences.

So what if we leave the region unstable? If they're busy with in-fighting they'll have less time to be a threat to us. We are definitely giving the Northern Alliance the wrong signal (arming them and encouraging them to attack the taliban) if we don't want them to take control. The Northern Alliance is cheering us on, but I fear we won't be happy until we've turned their cheers into curses. I have a feeling our idiotic foreign policy is going to make us a new set of enemies after the taliban is gone.

[schmelvin]

The fact that he's telling the WHOLE World including his troops that he's probably gonna die is a good sign.

Could just as easily be a bad sign. He has nothing to lose, death is near, and the more infidels he kills before he dies, the more glorious his reward from allah. He could decide to go out in a "blaze of glory" nuclear-style.

[Nick Danger]

Taliban forces across northern Afghanistan appeared to be in headlong rout... ...

How can this be? Just last week these weasels from the newspapers were telling us that the Taliban are the World's Toughest Guys, raised from childhood to be merciless warriors. Why, each one could kill ten Americans with his bare hands, and then bite the head off a snake, just for fun. And now they're unraveling like a cheap suit?

Here lies the Taliban. They're no fun, they fell right over.