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Date: 28 September 2007 22:20:51
We were just watching the 10 o'clock news on BBC 1. There was a story regarding the war in Afghanistan. The latest news is that the gains made in the summer could be lost during the winter offensive by the Taliban. This seems to be a repeat of the scare stories publicised prior to the summer offensive.
The title comes because the reporter said that the British offensive in the summer had centred on the Taliban strongholds in the cultivated areas of the Helmand river valley. In so doing they forced theTaliban forces to melt away as they squeezed them.
This brought laughter from FW who had visions of the Taliban forces turning to liquid chocolate as they were forced into smaller and smaller areas under the hot Afghan sun.
If only war were so simple!