Is A Tipping Point Against The Taliban Being Reached?

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Philip Barker provides security during a civil assistance mission along the Khost-Gardez Pass in eastern Afghanistan, March 29, 2010. Barker is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's Regimental Corp Training Team 2, Indiana National Guard. The Afghan National Army organized the mission with the aid of coalition forces. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Laura Goodgame

Something Has Got To Give -- Strategy Page

April 9, 2010: In the last few days, efforts to take down the terrorist leadership and technical specialist network, have had increasing success. In Kandahar, a wanted Taliban bomb maker was arrested. In the southeast, a leader of a weapons smuggling and distribution network for the Haqqani network was arrested. Intelligence efforts reveal that the Taliban are increasingly unable to plan and carry out attacks because of missing leaders (who are either dead or arrested, or scrambling to avoid capture.) This is having an impact. The bombs, especially the roadside bombs, are not as reliable or sophisticated as those in Iraq. Thus these bombs are not nearly as effective as those in Iraq. One thing the terrorist bombs have in common with those in Iraq, is that most of the victims are local civilians.

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My Comment: Call me skeptical .... because I have heard all of this before. But Pakistan has been successful in putting pressure on the Taliban on their side of the border, and the U.S. with their allies have had an impact in Afghanistan this year.

But is a tipping point being reached? I can only hope so .... but I still very skeptical. Ask me at the end of this year on where we are going in this war.