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Turning the tables on the Taliban

A riveting account of a U.S. military ambush
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Canadians understandably focus of the challenges facing our troops in southern Afghanistan. But it is the US that is doing the bulk of the fighting throughout the troubled nation. Today’s New York Times has a riveting account of how a small group of American soldiers turned the tables on the Taliban, ambushing them at night, high on a ridge in the a remote valley. It wasn’t pretty.

New York Times

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