No News is Bad News for Moshtarak
by Chris on 08/04/10 at 4:36 pm
With little or no news about Operation Moshtarak it can only mean the Taliban are winning.
Operation Moshtarak got under way two months ago with much fanfare and cable news coverage.
Pictures of jets and helicopters taking off, and columns of tanks moving out were beamed around the world. Politicians in the UK and USA struggled for elbow room to get in front of TV cameras, each one proclaiming what a great thing this operation was and how Johnny Taliban was going to be given whatfor.
And then Moshtarak slipped slowly from the news broadcasts.
Which means Johnny Taliban is winning and Moshtarak is going the way of all other great “pushes” in Afghanistan. That is, petering out. .....
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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Chris Wilkins. Chris Wilkins said: No News is Bad News for Moshtarak http://bit.ly/afSbKb Sad to say, Moshtarak is a failure and the Taliban are winning. [...]