F16's 1 - Wagon Train 0

"Rollin', rollin', rollin'... Though the streams are swollen... Keep them dogies rollin'... Rawhide!"

-- Paktia, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials say NATO-led forces killed at least 65 Taliban rebels Saturday night in airstrikes near the country's eastern border with Pakistan.

The Afghan interior ministry said Sunday that the Taliban rebels were smuggling weapons on horses and two cars in the province of Paktia, when NATO and Afghan forces engaged them and called in air support.

Of course, there's a bit of a difference between television mythology... and the brutal reality of the modern battlefield.

Hence the timeless military adage... "Peace through Superior Firepower."

I'm bettin' they run out of illiterate zealots... before we run out of JDAM's.

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RELATED: Samarra smackdown

-- BAGHDAD -- U.S. troops killed 10 suspected Sunni militants and captured eight during an operation against al-Qaida fighters north of Samarra, the U.S. military said Sunday.

Hey, Timmy... where is your god now?