The sudden killings of six American service members on a foot patrol by a suicide bomber this week is a graphic message back home that the Taliban are durable, able to launch a number of coordinated attacks in recent months across Afghanistan 14 years after the U.S. invasion.
A Pentagon report calls the security situation “fragile” and writes of the Taliban’s “resilience throughout the second half of the year.”
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How can a ragtag band of religious fanatics keep kicking the butts of the world's most powerful military?
Does this remind you of the American Revolution? It should, since the parallels are many.
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