Stardate 20010927.0608 (On Screen): Taliban propaganda is beginning to sound a bit frantic and even panicked. Excessive bravado tends to suggest fear to me, and that's what we're beginning to see. They're telling their people to
return to the cities because there's no threat of bombing, and no-one seems to believe them. They claimed to be
mobilizing a huge and potent army -- and no-one seems to believe that, either. Now they're reminding us of the trouble that the USSR had in the 1980's, just to try to make us fearful about invading. These guys are coming off as being incredibly inept; do they really think their pronouncements are going to make any difference to us?
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