Pentagon Says Operations to Clear Taliban Will Expand

This is all good , you Know the Taliban want to disrupt the Upcoming elections ( By blowing up as many innocent people as they Can !) .
But would it not be better to Kill The insurgent Forces , instead of "Driving them out ? " Seeing as how the Taliban are notorious for running away and then regrouping ! If you Just drive them out , where are they going to go ...?

VOA
A U.S. Defense Department spokesman says there will be more operations like the one launched in southern Afghanistan to secure a Taliban-controlled district in Helmand Province, and that coalition and Afghan forces will hold such areas after they drive out the insurgent forces.

Defense Department Spokesman Bryan Whitman says the operation in Nawzad District was timed to clear the area of insurgents before next Thursday's Afghan presidential election.

"U.S. forces along with our Afghan partners and the rest of the coalition that is there are trying to ensure that as we run up to the election that Afghans are going to have the freedom of movement to go to the polling places and be able to cast their vote, and to do it in a secure and unfettered manner," he said. "An operation like this contributes to that goal."

Whitman says there will be more such operations in the coming days, but they will not stop after the election.

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