Taliban Retreat from Kunduz, Declare Victory

The battle for Kunduz, Afghanistan, has apparently ended (for the time being) after 15 days of in-city combat. The Taliban, dishonest curs that they are, pretended they simply withdrew because they achieved all of their goals.

Let's see what some of those "goals" were:

Murdering people with government jobs: Check.
Destroying government offices: Check.
Destroying facilities for women and children: Check.
Hunting down to murder women who run those facilities: Check.

Dragging the entire country back into the seventh century: Pending.

So these totalitarian feudalist barbarians still have some work to do- and Allah (and Pakistan and Saudi Arabia) willing, they will achieve them.

I hope not.

On evaluating what happened in Kunduz, the glass is either half empty or half full. It's undoubtedly a sign of Afghan weakness that these terrorists could take over a major city for a fortnight. On the other hand, Afghan government forces were willing to fight, and ultimately drive out the invaders. (With U.S. military help, it needs to be noted.)

What is clear is that Afghanistan will be a Western dependency for years to come, unless the West wants to risk having it dragged back down into the Islamofascist swamp.