NATO’s initially shrugged off the coordinated Sunday attacks by Taliban fighters in Kabul, but the assessment appears to have been premature, as heavy fighting continued into Monday morning on the streets of the Afghan capital, with no end in sight.
And NATO’s claims that the Afghan government were handling the situation on their own appear to have gone out the window as well, with reports of NATO attack helicopters doing strafing runs near the British and German embassies.
The attacks have been targeting embassies, government offices and military bases across the capital, and nearly every heavily defended site in the capital getting hit at some point over the last 24 hours.
Officials have repeatedly claimed that the fighting is over, but every claim is followed up by more reports of gunfire, and the latest reports have fighting around the Western embassies as well as near the presidential palace and the parliament.
The overall death toll from the attacks is entirely unclear, with reports from early Sunday evening putting it at 19 dead and dozens wounded. The figure has undoubtedly risen in the intense fighting since then.
Following up on coordinated attacks last Monday, this week’s are among the biggest in the 11-year history of the war, and are pointing to a spring escalation even bigger than usual.
Class war — Empire USA in a nut shell
Surely this is civil war between a religious, tribal and uneducated class — against an educated atheistic dictator class that cannot muster the deadly force needed to keep the people terrorized.
So, the brutal imperialism of Empire USA must come into play, with the lowest class in America doing most of the killing, our laboring-class with no education but some high school doing virtually all of our dieing. Just as it was during my tour in the Vietnam War, with 95% of Americans sent home in a body bag of the laboring-class.
And so, will not our Empire always be on the wrong side of all the class wars in the world, until we resolve our class war at home?
Gee, I'm glad after ten years in Afghanistan we've got the enemy, whomever they are, on the run. I'm looking forward to hearing that the Afghan Army, backed by the US, France, Germany, Turkey, the UK, etc., are back in control of Kabul.
The FedGov has taken to calling these attacks "cowardly." What I'd like to know is how a pack of cowards could keep attacking. Cowards run away from fighting, but these guys just keep attacking.