I did say mostly successful. And yes you did mention most of what happened, but you also neglected to mention a very critical point, the base was abandoned the day after the attack.
Given that the Taliban's objective was to deny the base to government and US forces, it would seem that they succeeded. Or is this another case of spin - sort of like the operation was successful but the patient died? >Now let me understand this. > >1 squad of Americans, 1 platoon of Afghanis in a temporary patrol base, >they get attacked by 200+ talibs suffering 9 dead and 15 wounded, hold >the OP, win the day, and we want to turn it in to a defeat. > >Yeah, ok. > >RIP Sky Soldiers, Airborne All The Way!!! > >Larry Lyons wrote: >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:264259 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
