Remember the Taliban?

Turns out rumors of their demise were greatly exaggerated. Five years after they were ousted from power, they continue to fight on and wreck bloody havoc.

Seven were killed by Taliban fighters Saturday as they engaged in a mine-clearing operation in western Farah Province in Afghanistan. The ambush killed three members of the mine-clearing team, three guards, and an Afghan woman who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Five were wounded.

The dead were employees of Ronco Consulting Corporation, a demining company based in the United States. The attack was the latest in a wave of violent attacks that have been attributed to Taliban fighters.

Elsewhere in Afghanistan on Saturday, U.S. warplanes strafed Taliban positions, killing several rebles and destroying a weapons cache in a cave.

So folks, here is the talking point…The next time you hear the noise machine bemoaning the Democrats as “defeatocrats” intent on losing in Iraq – remind them that we were not the ones who surrendered to the terrorists in Afghanistan to go running off to fight a vanity war in Iraq that has cost billions of dollars, thousands of American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s.