Afghanistan
The last two weeks have seen an ambitious Taliban offensive shot to pieces. As many as a thousand Taliban gunmen, in half a dozen different groups, have passed over the Pakistani border, or been gathered within Afghanistan, and sent off to try and take control of remote villages and districts. The offensive was a major failure, with nearly half the Taliban getting killed, wounded or captured.
The entire post is well worth reading. (via Instapundit)
The popular narative of course is that Afghanistan is the ‘forgotten war’ and we have not committed enough forces there to deal with the problems. I am far from certain that that is the case.
I imagine our level of commitment in Afghanistan has caused some problems that could have been avoided if we had more resources there, but the other problems have doubtless been avoided because of a reletively light pressence. All in all, things seem to be going well there.
