From Investors Business Daily:
War On Terror: It's now clear why so many U.S. troops have fallen prey to Afghan insider attacks: The administration disarmed them while arming their Afghan trainees, making them sitting ducks.
With U.S. and NATO troop deaths from so-called green-on-blue attacks climbing past 100, military brass last week reversed a standing order requiring troops to remove their magazines from their weapons while quartered inside bases with their "trusted Afghan partners."
Rogue Afghan soldiers or police have easily gotten the jump on their trainers, shooting them in cold blood with the rifles and ammunition issued by the U.S. Ten of our troops have died this way in just the past two weeks.
The number of insider attacks this year already exceeds the total for last year. Since the start of 2012, there have been 32 attacks resulting in 40 deaths, many more than last year's 21 total attacks.
Earlier this month, an Afghan security commander ambushed U.S. troops. The officer, who was helping U.S. special forces train the local police force, lured elite U.S. soldiers to a Ramadan meal at his outpost to talk security. He then opened fire on them at close range, killing three and wounding one.
The Taliban took credit for the attack. The terror group released a video indicating it has heavily infiltrated the Afghan national army and police force.
"I opened fire on three Americans who were sitting together," a rogue Afghan soldier, identified as Ghazi Mahmood, says while smiling for the camera. "The reason I killed them is because they have occupied our country. They are enemies of our religion."
If my daughter renews her contract, she is scheduled for another rotation to Afghanistan next January. Right now she is debating whether or not to reenlist. I am hoping she decides not to.
This murderous bullshit has to end.
NOW.
22 comments:
Obama and his cronies have a lot to answer for. In this world and the next.
Opus - my girl told me some of the crap she was going through last year on deployment. I am just so pissed off right now I can't see straight.
This is simply unconscionable. If it wasn't close to voting him out time I'd say Impeach Obama!
I used to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not anymore once I learned of the "rules of engagement" our troops labor under. We send our best citizens over to be targets in a stinking third world shooting gallery, turn the armed services into a sociological petri dish for any harebrained experiment the liberal establishment can dream up, routinely vilify & castigate them at every opportunity. They deserve better, this is worse than the treatment the military received during the Viet Nam years, at least they didn't have to walk unarmed around possible enemy combatants.
I'll keep you and your daughter in my prayers. God help us all.
We went in there to kill OBL; he's dead. Time to leave that clusterf__ked dust-bowl of a country to the whims of its murderous tribal chieftains with one simple warning: If you all let any foreign terrorist gangs operate against the west from your lands again, we will daisy cut your country from the Iranian border in the west to the Pakistani border in the south and east - and everything in between. Other than that feel free to kill each other to your hearts' content.
and that totally make a sense.
Actually, if Dantes is to be believed, there is. It is the 9th circle of hell (for traitors and a few others I believe). To think Zero gave up Bogalia 5 (of 10) in the 8th circle of hell (the place for corrupt politicians) for this? Ah well. Oh, he's a muslim? Hehehe... never... mind. They opened up circle 10 for them.
Fuel Air Warheads!
I spoke with an active duty major yesterday who told me exactly the same. This is insanity.
Subvet - I feel the same way. Get our heroes the hell out of the overseas shitholes. Afghanistan never was a democracy and never will be. Their civil traditions are bound up in tribal customs and they do not incorporate good government practices - baksheesh is the norm.
Station our soldiers on the border if you want them to stay busy. And make sure they deploy on the border with weapons hot.
I'm with Clint. Get TF out of there tomorrow. Not 2014. Afghanistan is Lord of the Flies and always will be.
Karzai often sides with the taliban, WTF else do you need to know.
This is not worse than Vietnam. NO commitment by the administration. And even if there were... There is nothing there to save on a Lasting Basis.
correct: NOW worse than Vietnam....
LA - and we just happen to be in the market for new weapons testing areas.
Gorges - Europe found that out in the 8th century and it took them 900 years to beat the buggers back into Asia.
Teresa - don't hold back for my account! Let's impeach!
Doom - I always though Dante's Inferno was more of a illustrative guide rather than a map. In all honesty though, any part of Hell has got to be ... hell.
Glenn - and that's just the appetizers.
Deekaman - and of course the MSM won't touch this particular treasonous hot potato.
Kid - we both know there's a Manchurian Candidate in the White House who hates America. No one is safe while he is President and he has deliberately increased our soldiers risk of injury and death.
It's the democrat way. Toy soldiers to use for profit.
Time to leave and turn it to glass on our way out.
I wouldn't even waste the hydrogen. Let them crawl around in the rubble for the next 1,000 years.
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