The stress OUR soldier must be going through
not good
Lets see.... They execute our military leaders over burning books, nothing is done. One soldier crumbles under the stress of his deployment fighting FOR THEM and we'll pay the family millions of dollars and all will be forgotten. Sounds about right to me.
For some reason, I don't think we're getting the whole story. Prayers for all those involved.
Alan
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I'm about sick and tired of hearing about hearing about "President Karzai feelings" His sheep herding azz would be dead or still herding sheep if it were not for our finest putting him in office.
The soldier will answer under the UCMJ.
BRING THEM HOME!
Terrible situation. I am confused over their leader asking for an explanation. Pretty obvious the poor guy snapped.
At one point, it seemed the Afgans were allies. However, I suspect the Taliban has grown yet again...and they definitely resent our attempts to help the decent folks who want/need change.
If you ever want to know how President Karzai became President pick up this book. I know at least two of the men that served on the team. The book is a book and may not be 100% true but from great sources it is close enough to be considered ones slant against another.
A friend of my son in law spent 22 months in Iraq----some of the things he told me ---- Our GI's pass candy out to little kids--- the insurgents strap explosives to the little kids and send them to get candy-- then denote the explosives. 8-10 year old kids with weapons and trained to shoot ya. Women same way.
He said he had alot of feelings for most the people BUT just when you think you've won them over-----they will kill you. He said the best thing we could do was get out or go in full blast.
Bassman you know I work with all types coming home. I see the best and unfortunately I see the ugliest war has to offer. Many of the men and women would have soon died on the battlefield. It's ashamed what we are doing over there.
As for the deaths....we have lost about 2,000 in Afghanistan in the past ten years. That's a TRAGEDY though to put it in into prospective we lost about 6,000 on D-Day.
One of our guys snapped, however, killing civillians seems pretty regular for the Taliban. I found this UN statistic pretty interesting.
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Terrorism against civilians
Terrorist attack carried out by the Taliban's Haqqani network in Kabul.
According to the United Nations, the Taliban were responsible for 76% of civilian casualties in Afghanistan in 2009, 75% in 2010 and 80% in 2011.[32][161]
According to Human Rights Watch, the Taliban's bombings and other attacks which have led to civilian casualties "sharply escalated in 2006" when "at least 669 Afghan civilians were killed in at least 350 armed attacks, most of which appear to have been intentionally launched at non-combatants."[162][163] By 2008, the Taliban had increased its use of suicide bombers and targeted unarmed civilian aid workers, such as Gayle Williams.[164]
The United Nations reported that the number of civilians killed by both the Taliban and pro-government forces in the war rose nearly 50% between 2007 and 2009.[165] The high number of civilians killed by the Taliban is blamed in part on their increasing use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), "for instance, 16 IEDs have been planted in girls' schools" by the Taliban.[165]</td></tr></table>
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...lians
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Well... at least Barry can apologize for something else now. Momma always said, "Stick to what you're good at".
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