Amateur Hour

Reuters

Great post from Free Range International on this week’s Kabul bombings. Excerpted below:

“The attack on Kabul yesterday was yet another demonstration of how inept the Taliban are at the planning and execution of a simple raid.  The attack has been described in the press as “audacious” and “brazen” which is true.  All their attacks in downtown Kabul are conceptually bold military moves; but they accomplish nothing.  A better description of their performance would be incompetent. Seven heavily armed attackers – one in a bomb-rigged ambulance killed three policemen and two civilians, one of them a child.  That is of course good news for the home team, but from the military professionals’ point of view, a dismal performance by an assault team, which had gained complete surprise when they unmasked themselves in Pashtunistan Square.”

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“The Taliban have been fighting us for over eight years and yesterday’s raid was the best they could do, given their vast combat experience?  That raid was a fiasco, which indicates to me we have time… a lot of time to get this thing right.  All we need is the will.”