Policemen in the Kandahar Province called in an SOS, and commandos were sent to rescue them Tuesday, but found themselves under intense Taliban attack, with IEDs damaging several vehicles to the point of non-functionality.
Ultimately, the last policeman, who was wounded, was rescued, and transported away. The commandos then tried to recover some of their destroyed vehicles, with limited success.
Kandahar has always been one of the main strongholds of the Taliban, and this sort of fighting came to remind everyone that the region remains, like so much of Afghanistan, contested.
The rescued policeman is recovering, and reported that at the start of the fight there were 15 police, but that all of the others surrendered in the course of two days of fighting.
No, that official State-Dept line about how much of Afghanistan is “contested” is malarkey. The Taliban was Afghanistan’s government before we invaded, and they inevitably will be again. Our puppet regime is barely contesting the Taliban’s obvious dominance throughout most of the country; There is no contest. We should rescue our Afghan collaborators and accept that Afghanistan will soon govern itself again.
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