For the 2,200 US Marines being deployed to southern Afghanistan next month, training for a mission fighting Taliban insurgents has meant adapting to a different type of enemy.How ridiculous is it that this will be the seventh spring that our troops have been in Afghanistan?
Having tried but failed to convince its allies to commit more troops to Afghanistan, the Pentagon last month ordered the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit based at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina to deploy in March.
They are due to arrive ahead of an expected spring offensive by the Taliban, who ...
We went there in pursuit of maybe 100 al-Qaeda terrorists. We've been there 6 1/2 years fighting the Taliban.
The Taliban didn't blow up the Twin Towers. They just harbored those who did.
Find Osama bin Laden and his closest associates, regardless of where they're hiding, and then get the Hell out of there!
