Thursday, July 02, 2009

Marines push into Helmand, Afghanistan

In what is being billed as a test of Obama's more assertive Afghan policy, 4,000 Marines and a contingent of Afghan soldiers have launched an offensive into Helmand Province, reportedly a stronghold for the Taliban and a place where lots of opium poppies are grown. First reports indicate little resistance. I'll be surprised if that isn't because the Taliban have simply moved elsewhere or are hiding in the hills. Guerrilla forces have known forever that you avoid direct battles with better-armed conventional armies, but move out to live to fight another day, catching them by surprise if and when they start to get complacent.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is reminding me more and more of Vietnam all the time. America needs to get out.

Anonymous said...

An that comment by anonymous reminds me more and more how many people in this country have no idea what they are talking about.. Vietnam is not Afghanistan, there was no extreme Islamic ideology employed in Vietnam, no medieval murderous torturers and fanatics roaming their own land.. We need to step up and throw in enough Army and Marine grunts in there to eradicate and wipe out the Taliban as a notion.. Forever. Pacifists need not worry, we will..

Anonymous said...

Just like the Soviets did, huh? Or the British before them? The country is tailor-made for an insurgency and 4th generation warfare is very difficult to defeat. And what is the point anyways?

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