Saturday, September 11, 2004

Remember Afghanistan?

This is a post about Afghanistan.

Site of our first great 'victory' in the War On (some) Terror(ists). The place where we vanquished the Taliban and put al-Qaida on the run.

Right?

Or just the place where we can't seem to get anything that we want?

An AP report from Bagram looks at the remarks of the top American commander on the scene, Officer Obie...err...Maj. Gen. Eric Olson, and the picture he paints isn't pretty...
BAGRAM, Afghanistan - The trail has gone cold in the hunt for suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden three years after the audacious attacks, but the al-Qaida chief and his No. 2 are still orchestrating strikes like the recent suicide car bombing of a U.S. security firm in Kabul...
Oh. Those guys. The ones on the run from Sheriff Bush and his neo-con posse. The guys helplessly hiding in their spider holes...when they're not "orchestrating strikes," I guess.

Of course, it's not like the old days, when a pan-Islamic force, inspired by Saudi and Saudi-influenced radical clerics, were recruited to wreak havoc on the people, right?

Bzzzzt.

Sorry, but thanks for playing.
There were reports Saturday of fresh fighting in the country, where more than 900 people — mostly Afghan security forces and rebels — have died in political violence this year.

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Arabs, including Saudis and Yemenis, were among fighters recently detected in Kandahar province. Russian chatter was intercepted by radio monitors in the former al-Qaida stronghold of Khost, suggesting Chechen and Uzbeks were operating there, he said.
Bush says Afghanistan's a democracy now. Kerry says saying something doesn't make it so. Olson, who's there, says "I don't think we're close at all" to defeating the insurgents...

I say FUBAR.

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