Afghan women in jail for being raped

[KarlXII]

Yep - situation....
On the other hand if Taliban still rules there, she would be killed and before that ....
probably raped 10 times.

All in all I completely agree that NATO is loosing into Afghanistan.

No, it is not. Attacks have sprung back up, naturally, this happens in war. It's called an offensive. However, every offensive costs the Talibans tens of hundreds of insurgents. NATO is very effective in breaking Taliban control of provinces, however, insurgents tend to hide and spring back up.

[CountArach]

No, it is not. Attacks have sprung back up, naturally, this happens in war. It's called an offensive. However, every offensive costs the Talibans tens of hundreds of insurgents. NATO is very effective in breaking Taliban control of provinces, however, insurgents tend to hide and spring back up.

I would contest that it costs them thousands of insurgents, because on the other hand it does create many people who would not otherwise have fought with the Insurgency. In fact I found this article which I found interesting and relevant:

For over two millennia, Afghans have reacted poorly to foreign occupation, and their animosity has increased in tandem with the occupation's duration. Western forces have now been resident for nearly six years, and resentment is rising not only in the Taliban's bastion in southern Afghanistan, but also in areas where the Taliban not only has little presence, but where it has heretofore been opposed. In recent months, for example, anti-regime and anti-coalition attacks have occurred in the northeastern province of Parwan—where the Northern Alliance predominates; the Tajik-dominated and previously anti-Taliban provinces of Herat and Farah in western Afghanistan; and in Kabul province, from where, although Taliban adherents have historically been few, the June 17 bomber in Kabul reportedly came (Khaleej Times, June 9; Associated Press, June 8).
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While hoping for the best from Karzai and the West, Afghans appear increasingly prepared to fend for themselves by resisting the "repressive regime [in Kabul] marred with corruption, insecurity, and warlords," and by taking up arms against the foreign occupation (Khaleej Times, June 9).

I agree with it, the occupation and the Afghan government are creating a great number of insurgents.