I also have a real problem with Heller's take on things and the above is a pointed example. I will take the word of our boots and brass on the ground in Afghanistan for how things are going there and I listened to a whole slew of them this weekend on FOX News giving an entirely different picture than Heller's.
I really appreciate all of your posts, flattorney, as they are filling in the picture about CW and the Afghan/Soviet war very well. But I would say every article you have posted has to be strained just as carefully as any leftist (and some of it is) propaganda. We love to tell singers to shut up and sing. Maybe we ought to start telling reporters to shut up and report.
The Taliban are not making a comeback because of a Northern Alliance government. The present government is not Northern Alliance. Karzi is a Pashtun from Kandahar. The Taliban are coming back the same way they came in, with the barrel of a gun, they want the drugs in the South where they come from.