Word: slugging
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Both the Marjah offensive and the capture of Baradar are blows to the Taliban. In Marjah, dozens of Taliban fighters stayed to slug it out after seeding roads and fields with explosive devices, but most fled the area ahead of the long-trumpeted U.S.-led offensive. The Obama Administration has described the operation as a critical step toward lasting stability, but there's a high risk that the Taliban will melt back into Marjah once the NATO juggernaut pulls out and the area is turned over to Afghan administrators and security forces. Holding this ground will be the first true...
...other words, the legal bout of the de Villepin-Sarkozy slug-fest may be over, but the lack of a knock-out for either combatant means both will take their fight back to the cage-match brawling of politics...