Taliban Targeted By Local Uprisings -- Wall Street Journal
ANDAR, Afghanistan—The paved road to this district is controlled by government troops. The alternate route, a dirt track, is under Taliban sway. Both ways are perilous for the local villagers who have taken up arms in the first of several anti-Taliban uprisings spreading in Afghanistan.
Two of these Andar rebels, escorting a reporter to their stronghold on a recent day, were stopped by jumpy Afghan soldiers, who cocked their American-furnished M-16s and briefly seized the villagers' weapons. The fighters were allowed to proceed only after long negotiations.
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My Comment: This is just a small uprising with limited resources, men, and weapons. But .... it should serve as a warning to the Taliban that after decades of war Afghanistan is now a different place .... and that subjugating it as they were able to do in the mid-1990s is probably no longer possible.
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It would seem to me that, if this is true, the best US policy would be to arm and support such groups as we did the Mujaheddin and Taliban to fight against Russia. Turns the tables on 'em.
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