3 days ago the news media was breathlessly reporting that 600 Taliban had taken over some villages in Afghanistan and were threatening the government there. At the time I noted how ridiculous the odds were of the Taliban succeeding:

Sorry if I am not impressed. Every time the Taliban seize real estate they are beaten back with huge casualties. They don’t have the training, numbers or fire power to resist the combined forces of the Afghanistan and NATO forces. They are simply fish jumping into the barrel. Once exposed like this, once they climb out of their holes into the open, they become easy targets.

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The Taliban will fail in the coming days, and they will take a beating (600 vs 210,000?).

Three days later, mission accomplished:

After a day of air strikes and ground operations against Taliban fighters, Afghan and NATO officials claimed broad success on Thursday, saying they had largely expelled the insurgents from the strategic Arghandab region near Kandahar, killing more than 50 of them

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Hundreds of Afghan and NATO troops, supported by armored vehicles and helicopter gunships, poured into the area Wednesday after the insurgents infiltrated 18 villages. The influx of fighters came less than a week after a jailbreak in Kandahar freed hundreds of Taliban prisoners. Thousands of villagers fled the area and the government’s control seemed threatened amid news reports that the insurgents planned to attack Kandahar city itself.

Even with the Taliban clearly and easily defeated the SurrenderMedia opines about some mythical threat from ‘news reports’. Their news reports. Their now totally debunked news reports. This ‘news report’ should have simply said ‘we were wrong, there was not real threat’. Or to put it more succinctly: Never mind!

Tags: Afghanistan, Kandahar, Taliban