More Taliban Attacks

The Taliban have struck across Afghanistan today in co-ordinated attacks. The majority of the fighting took place in Kabul, here the Taliban targeted embassies, including the British and German embassies as well as NATO headquarters and the Afghan parliament. The Taliban claim that this is the beginning of their 'Spring Offensive', if so then maybe they should call off the rest of any planned attacks. The attacks were largely unsuccessful as there were few casualties on the defending side. Also important is the fact that it wasn't NATO soldiers who primarily fought off the Taliban, but Afghan soldiers and police. After many stories of Afghan soldiers turning on the people who were training them and killed NATO officers, it is a welcome relief. It gives us some hope that the lives of allied servicemen were not wasted and that Afghanistan will not return to the failed state it once was.