Taliban making its "last stand" in Afghanistan, says Hadley

[Cocoa]

next we'll be instructed to look up "stand" in the dictionary...

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/06/30/echoing-cheney/

Echoing Cheney, National Security Advisor Says Taliban Making Its “Last Stand”

As insurgent violence spiked in Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney was widely criticized for saying the insurgency in Iraq was in its “last throes.”

Now, as Taliban violence spikes in Afghanistan, National Security advisor Stephen Hadley says the Taliban is making “one last stand.” Here’s Hadley on PBS NewsHour last night:

hat we know and what we believe is that the Taliban forces in Afghanistan were really set back by the presidential election that occurred and are trying to regroup and trying to stay relevant and trying to derail the elections that are now scheduled for September. So, regrettably, we’re going to probably see continuation of violence as they try and make one last stand to try and derail the progress of democracy there.

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[Solly Mack]

1. So the Taliban is in it's last throes too?

[malmapus]

2. In their last throes too I see?

haha love that ref you made to the dictionary Jon so owned Rummy on that :D

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. Gee, I was under the impression the Taliban had been defeated

and completely exterminated! Did they rise from the dead or something? :sarcasm:

[tubbacheez]

5. zombies. n/t

[whistle]

4. Wasn't that what Washington said about Chief Crazy Horse....

...leader of the Sioux Indian Nation right before the General Custer massacre?

[alfredo]

6. Yeah right.

Just because they are fighting at their own pace, and picking their targets carefully doesn't mean they are making a last stand.

Just this moring on CNN the US officers were saying that the Taliban has new standardized equipment now.

[Dr.Phool]

7. Another last stand?

I bet they read Newsweek too.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. All these glorious victories! I feel so..so..much like I did in '68.

After tet.

[catnhatnh]

9. Avoid the term "Last Stand", MORON....

at the last "Last Stand" technologicaly inferior insurgent/aborigines WIPED OUT their high tech foes...Remember this quote?-"Where'd all these Fuckin' indians come from???"

On edit:Does that make that Chinook into Major Reno's column???

[MostlyAmused]

10. What kind of statement is that for a govt official to make??

"hat we know and what we believe"

If you know something, why would you need to add that you believe it? All too typical, and infuruating -- claiming something as a fact for emphasis, and then deflecting responsibility by adding that it's just a guess so as not to be held accountable later.

[LizW]

11. Is a last stand before or after a last throe?

Or do several last stands make a last throe? Or do several last throes make a last stand?

I need Jon Stewart's dictionary.