ABC: Eyewitness Account of Huge Taliban Defeat. May there be many more, until they’re all out of the picture. It seems to me, though, that this sentence reveals a lot about both the war, and modern journalism: “While hundreds of Taliban are believed to have been killed, two British soldiers and one American soldier lost their lives.”

UPDATE: Reader Alex Gadea emails:

I love your posts, but I don’t think you are being fair to Stephen Grey, the writer of the Blotter article on the fighting in Afghanistan. I believe he is saying that it only cost 3 coalition lives to rout the Taliban, and even those were lost not due to anything the Taliban were able to do but by mines left by Soviet forces in the 80s. Grey appears to be actually be underlining how powerful and successful the attack was and does not seem to be making the invidious comparison that you seem to feel he does. I do believe the MSM has been attrocious and avidly anti-american in their coverage of Afghanistan and Iraq, but don’t allow anger over that to strike at someone who actually seems to be given an honest accounting.

Fair enough. The report is quite good — I just found the turn of phrase odd.