Thursday, December 24, 2015

Why Are The Taliban Still Kicking Our Butts ???

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.”

You can read the rest @
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/23/taliban-outlast-14-years-of-us-combat-in-afghanist/

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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