Afghanistan - Driving the Taleban out

Slowly bur surely the Taleban are being driven out.

In an otherwise good article, the AP make the same mistake most MSM make.

With NATO taking charge of security in southern provinces wracked by a Taliban resurgence, the U.S. is increasingly able to focus on stabilizing the dangerous east, extending the Afghan government's authority there and hunting for fugitives like Osama bin Laden.

There is no "resurgence". The Taleban are merely mounting more attacks because there are thousands of NATO troops pouring into their former strongholds. We are on the offensive and the Taleban is on the defensive - and losing badly.

And the Afghans are supportive of the coalition forces.

"The Russians would come knocking on our doors with guns looking for hashish whenever they ran out," said Naray's most prominent tribal elder, white-bearded Rahmat Noor, in his fortified home built on the eastern bank of the roaring Kunar River.

"We all made jihad (holy war) against the Russians because we didn't like them. They were occupiers," Noor said. "But we like the Americans. They came to help. They built a mosque on their base for our soldiers."

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