{"id":60505,"date":"2015-06-22T14:09:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60505"},"modified":"2015-06-22T14:09:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T18:09:32","slug":"taliban-assaults-afghan-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60505","title":{"rendered":"Taliban assaults Afghan Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters reports<\/a> that the Taliban assaulted the Afghan Parliament today using suicide bombers and a car bomb, you know, the way they usually assault stuff. No one was injured except some civilians who happened to be in the area – a woman and her child were killed and thirty others were injured – again typically Taliban. The Afghan defenders report that they eliminated the six Taliban fighters who hadn’t blow themselves up.<\/p>\n

Fox News<\/a> says that the Taliban has stepped up their attacks because ISIS threatens to be a political force in that place;<\/p>\n

Fox News National Security Analyst KT McFarland spoke to John Hannah and Benjamin Collins about Afghanistan\u2019s security situation.<\/p>\n

Hannah, a senior counselor with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, sees similarities in the attack to tactics used by ISIS in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are looking at a U.S. drawdown significantly. They think that they might be able to re-create what ISIS has done in Iraq,\u201d he said. This attack \u201cis very much the Taliban putting down their marker and they are on the offensive elsewhere in Afghanistan, picking up territory \u2013 the Taliban is back.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, yeah, this war against terror or contingency operation or whatever the Hell it is called these days seems to be going swimmingly.<\/p>\n

But, you should watch steel-spined fellow of the Afghan parliament when the bomb went off. He hardly flinched;<\/p>\n