Afghan militants kill 10 French, strike at US base

August 19, 2008

SUROBI, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents mounted two of the biggest attacks in years on Western forces in Afghanistan, killing 10 French soldiers in a mountain ambush and then sending a squad of suicide bombers in a failed assault early Tuesday on a U.S. base near the Pakistan border.

The audacious strikes suggested a bolder insurgency is now willing to launch frontal assaults on U.S. and NATO troops.  >>>>>

It’s about time that we, the Western powers, leave the region.  We had no justifiable reason for occupying them in the first place.