"Tet Offensive" in Afghanistan?

[Rocky Rococo]

I can't be the only one of "a certain age" to find today's announcement of a second consecutive day of guerrilla strikes deep inside Kabul, up and down embassy row and against midtown military installations strikingly familiar. While I admit it may be more than a bit premature to declare it as such yet, echoes of the Vietnamese Tet Offensive of January 1968 are finding their way to the surface of my thoughts.

[ВАЛТЕР]

I don't think they could mount such a large scale operation. They don't have the manpower nor logistical support to launch such an organized attack.

[aty]

In the Tet Offensive we had 80 000 communists striking occupation forces at the same time...

Just the "mini-tet" in May left 3000 people dead, yesterday there were 32 taliban dead and 8 from NATO...

[ridethejetski]

Wasn't a similar fairly small scale assault launched by the Taliban last year also, and reffered to as their 'tet-offensive' also?


I don't think a handful dead is going to galvanise the antiwar movement and turn public opinion against the war in the same way as the Vietnam's tet-offensive did

[bcbm]

i don't think the point is to take territory or even do that much damage to nato but simply to show that they are capable of attacks in the heart of nato-controlled afghanistan and to weaken faith in the government's control. already being used by some in nato forces as a reason for coalition forces to stay longer but without serious cooperation from pakistan (not likely) the taliban are not going to be routed no matter how long they stay in afghanistan. lots of areas are already contested.