They're Baaaack .....

But then, they never left.

This is from al-Jazeera:

"A senior police officer in Kandahar has said the main government building in Mian Nishin, headquarters of the district by the same name, is under Taliban control after a Friday night attack.
"Afghan police said on Saturday that Taliban fighters had attacked a district capital for a second straight night and took 18 policemen prisoner, a day after detaining more than a dozen."Right now, the district headquarters is under the control of the Taliban, "said the officer, who declined to be named. "The Taliban surrounded the district headquarters and captured 18 officers," he added.
"Mian Nishin, in Kandahar province, was the scene of joint operations by Afghan and US-led forces early this week in which government officials said nine fighters were killed.
"On Thursday, the Taliban had captured 11 police officers, the district police chief and a senior local government official in Mian Nishin.
"The Taliban said Their fate would be decided by its leadership."

Our invasion of Afghanistan seems to be moving right along. We pushed the Taliban south and east, across the border into the semiautonomous tribal areas of Pakistan (where they can hide with the tacit complicity of Our Ally). We surrounded and bombed the crap out of Tora Bora, but somehow(?) bin Laden escaped.

So now the Taliban are coming back, with attacks centering around their old power base in Kandahar. We've killed about 150 of them, but they keep on coming.

About two weeks ago, Chicken Noodle Network ran a short item in their crawl (that little scrolling thing at the bottom of the screen) that reported 2,000 cases of cholera in Kabul, and fears of a cholera epidemic.

Once again, a first-rate example of American Nation-Building at its finest.