Apparently, some Taliban dug a tunnel into the Kandahar prison and staged the escape of 475 prisoners including scads of Taliban warriors according to the Associated Press;
The massive overnight jailbreak in Afghanistan’s second-largest city underscores the Afghan government’s continuing weakness in the south despite an influx of international troops, funding and advisers. Kandahar city, in particular, has been a focus of the international effort to establish a strong Afghan government presence in former Taliban strongholds.
No, what this underscores is the idiocy of taking prisoners in this war. Prisoners have been a thorn in our side since Guantanamo. Prison is beginning to look like R & R for the Taliban. If we stop taking prisoners, we won’t have anymore prisoner problems.
Amen on stop taking prisoners.
I bet no one noticed anything unusual. “Now serving #399.” Hopefully there were afghani cops to ensure the bus convoy left without undue disruption to local traffic. “But if we don’t take prisoners they might kill our people when captured”… oh wait.
The ACLU and the American Left have been organizing a much more litigious jailbreak for the Taliban for quite some time. It’s all they ever do.
I’d say their “a cot and three hots” portion of the born again good Taliban behavioral program is an epic failure.
@street: The whole program of “Reintegration and Reconciliation,” the fluffy-bunnies-n-unicorns pipe dream of reforming the low-level fighters is one of the cornerstones of Afghan policy, and of course, a colossal failure.