Stardate 20011125.1529 (On Screen): Taliban fighters are abandoning the town of Spin Boldak and heading west to Kandahar. They're moving at night via a caravan of pickup trucks moving with their lights turned out. I seem to recall Mullah Omar saying that there would be no further retreats or withdrawals, but that's as may be. What I find interesting is this strange faith that the Taliban have in the power of the night to conceal. Perhaps it's no more than "If I can't see you, then you can't see me." For example, early in the bombing campaign they were routinely killing electric power in Kabul every night. And now they're moving pickups with their lights off.
After all these weeks of accurate nighttime bombardment, haven't they figured out yet that we're not using visible light to do our aiming? Starlight and GPS and FLIR, oh my! (discussion in progress)
Not to mention RADAR.
