On ITN tonight, the Brits had a reporter with the Northern Alliance boys. They were watching the bombing, and simultaneously talking to the Taliban boys being bombed. The lines are so far apart that the Taliban guys can duck out of their positions when the planes get close, let the bombs fall, and then run back. They all have been carpet bombed before. All they need is spotters on the next hill to tell them the planes are coming.
As for the Northern Alliance boys, they were saying they were not going forward until we put real troops in. (Not that Rangers aren't real, just that they are not very many of them in theatre).
Forget about this Northern Alliance. It's just a bunch of ragtag bands of men who are unemployed and have nothing else to do. It is really many alliances that don't really like each other so we need to forget about them and send in the appache gun ships and A10's and so some up close ass whipping on our own.