Hell Under Seige

Reuters reports that the offensive targeting Marjah (or Marjeh, for all those google mappers reading this), a small town in the southern province of Helmand, has been, and continues to be highly successful.  Marine Captain Abraham Sipe is quoted as saying “We are making steady progress …”, and a slightly more enthusiastic Helmand Governor Gulab Mangai has stated that “[t]he situation moment by moment is going the way the government had expected. The forces are extending their advances from points they have captured and the operation is going on successfully …”  It seems the Afghani’s are kinda’ fired up about defending their newfound freedom.  Maybe that crazy cowboy strategy of invading terrorist-funding regimes in order to replace tyrannical dictatorships with free, republican forms of government isn’t such a bad one after all.  So much for a quagmire.