engle, our colleague. he s there. when you re in it over there, tell me about the taliban. the enemy that showed up 20 yards away out of nowhere on the way back from the americans soldiers back from a memorial for a fellow soldier. the taliban are effective fighters. where i was they had roughly 30, 40 minutes to attack. until air power showed up. so it was a fair fight for 30, 40 minutes. they would try to get inside the belt buckle, which means they would get so close to the wire that the base s mortars or supporting artillery could not hit them without being in danger of hitting americans themselves. they were effective at maneuvering and essentially fearless. what is their motive? nationalism? religion? take back the country? throw out the invader? how do they look at it? what is there, why do they want to die? you know, they re not a unified group. at the lowest end, they re local guys who get paid $5 a day to do