Taliban attacks Kabul, Aussies set to run and the Afghans who didn’t blink

The 18 hours of gunfire, rocket attacks and explosions were over by Monday morning, but the implications and the repercussions are not fully understood yet.

• Not by the Taliban who lost all of its 36 odd terrorists who managed to infiltrate into the heavily guarded areas of Kabul. 
• Not by the NATO/ISAF troops or their commanding generals who routinely claim that ‘the situation in Afghanistan is improving’.  Haven’t we been hearing that particular phrase right after the 2009 US troop surge from General Stanley McChrystal?
• Not by the Australians who are planning to pull out their troops almost an year ahead of schedule.  The family of the Diggers must be one happy lot.
• Not by the Taliban who seem to be crowing the fact that they can launch such attacks, but haven’t yet realised that the Afghan troops stopped them from attaining their objective.
• Not by the planners and backers of Taliban, the Haqqani network, whose two months of rehearsing and planning the attack did not last for even 2 days in Kabul.
• Not by the Pakistani Army who now find that the Afghan security forces are no pushover - trained by NATO and the Indians, the Afghan security forces performed admirably in the Kabul attacks, who met the Taliban fighters without support from International troops.
• Not by the Pakistani government and terrorist backing ISI, who find themselves in a prickly situation after every such attack.
• Not by the Afghan President Hamid Karzai who is blaming the Kabul attacks as a NATO intelligence failure.

Certainly not by anyone of us sitting down in the comfort of our homes and watching it on TV.
:-)

Would have been better if we could have seen it on Google Earth. But then, here is a nice graphic on the sites attacked in Kabul from Telegraph, UK.

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