American Embassy Attacked in Kabul

The Taliban are attacking Kabul once again. They will fail... again. But most mainstream media are unable to differentiate between a battle with strategic consequences and an opportunistic raid by Taliban hillbillies hoping to kill some Infidels before they in turn are sent to paradise. So the Taliban will achieve their objective of making it appear that they are still very much an unstoppable military force.

On a crabbier note, I hate to be an armchair General from the safety of my living room halfway around the world, but notice the, er, interesting results from a decade of training Afghan police. They don't even bother trying to to fire from cover. No, they stand in the open, spraying bullets up towards a building where the attackers are hidden and safe behind reinforced concrete walls. Good luck with that.

When the cops run out of bullets, they turn to the side and sort of, um, wait for someone else to do something.

"Let those big strong ISAF troops risk their lives storming the building and clearing the Taliban room by room. Why should we do it? It's not our... country. Oh, wait."