{"id":1907,"date":"2008-06-19T10:33:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T14:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2008-06-19T13:11:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T17:11:01","slug":"how-things-change-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1907","title":{"rendered":"How things change overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"

As late as yesterday, the media was predicting a big upset for the Afghan Army<\/a>
\nin Kandahar.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of Taliban fighters yesterday swarmed into a strategically important district just outside Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, in an apparent push for control days after 400 Taliban members escaped in a spectacular breakout from the Kandahar prison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, my buddy, Jammie Wearing Fool<\/a> illustrates how far the media is behind on events;<\/p>\n

Just two days ago the media told us the Taliban were stronger than ever and were flexing their muscles<\/a> around Kandahar. Funny, but they have a strange way of flexing when they’re getting their heads kicked in<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After a day of airstrikes and ground operations against a surge by Taliban fighters, provincial authorities here said Thursday that hundreds of militants had been killed or wounded <\/strong>in the valleys and villages of the strategic Arghandab region on the approaches to Kandahar.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Asadullah Khaled, the governor of Kandahar Province, told a news conference in the Arghandab district compound on Thursday: \u201cHundreds of militants have been killed and wounded, their dead bodies have been left on the ground, with numbers of light and heavy weapons<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I guess that’s what happens when they depend on second hand reports in the comfort of their Islamabad hotels.<\/p>\n

From Drew M. at Ace of Spades<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Also seriously wounded in the fighting was the conventional wisdom that we are losing in Afghanistan and that operations in Iraq are making it easier for the Taliban to regain power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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