Fights Break Out in Afghanistan as NATO Moves to Recover Downed Helicopter

FoxNews.com ^ | August 07, 2011 | FoxNews/AP

[ColdOne]

An Afghan official says there is fighting in the area where a U.S. Army Chinook helicopter was apparently shot down Saturday by the Taliban, killing 38, including more than 20 Navy Seals from the unit that killed Usama bin Laden in May.

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is what happens when politicians, “judges” and “lawyers” want to tell the military how to fight a war. We should be kicking some Neanderthal ass over there.

[Mouton]

We should be kicking some Neanderthal ass over there.

I’d settle for putting them in a nuclear furnace.

[ex-snook]

NATO? In charge of SEALS?

[Sequoyah101]

Neutron bomb, best unused invention for war ever.

[Popman]

Its a mistake to think you can adjudicate war. If war can be managed by attorneys with brief cases, with suits and ties, serving subpoenas and fashioning brilliant arguments before judges behind mahogany benches, you are not yet at war.War is by its very nature an extra-legal enterprise, it is the state of affairs that exists when lawyers and policemen and judges are no longer able to manage a confrontation. At that point, the men in suits take a recess, and the men with guns go in to kill the men who couldn’t be reasoned with, them and anyone standing near them, you wipe out their leadership and everything of value that can be used to keep them alive, you wipe out whole towns if necessary, whole armies, and when you have completely re-drawn the map and created a new status quo to replace the old toxic one, only then do you let the men in suits with the briefcases resume control.War is the parenthesis that occupies the space between the failure of the old status quo and the birth of the new one. When rule-of-law resumes, when a new circumstance has emerged that permits the resumption of rule-of-law, the war is over

I didn't write this. Wish I remembered which FReeper wrote it so I could give credit, but it is very fitting

[FlingWingFlyer]

I agree totally. I also believe that as long as the buffoons with briefcases try to civilize war, wars will continue to be fought.

[maxsand]

Where is the friggin air support?

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

WHY were so many of our Brave Warriors ferried in on ONE slow moving "bus" a Chinook as opposed to splitting them up on several Hawks and Hueys and WHERE was the air support from our Fast Movers and Cobras?

Something stinks here to high heaven and it no doubt revolves around our Politically Correct Rule of Engagement or these men having been specifically targeted for a shoot down by Islamo-Fascist who planned this, with or without knowledge/support from Village Chiefs who were aware of what was transpiring of some intel info which was gained by allowing Mooslimbs know about this rescue mission ahead of time.

Enough already, no more casualties for naught. Bring em' ALL home and bring em' home NOW!!!

[Gene Eric]

>> NATO? In charge of SEALS?

Obamaland. He’s also handing over US currency.

[Nachum]

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[tet68]

They’ll want to desecrate the bodies and take their
armor and weapons as trophies, it’s that tribal mentality.

[crosshairs]

Neutron bomb, best unused invention for war ever.

In that part of the world, how could you tell the difference?

[Sequoyah101]

Neutron bomb kills by short lived radiation, destroys very little. Carter outlawed it.

[org.whodat]

It sounded like fellow military and seals were dying in a fire fight, but you could be correct, why not take a day are so and get the whole thing properly organized.

[WePledge]

I've reached the point where I would feel no regret if we vaporized the entire country. The old crusader quote still applies “Kill them all,God will surely know His own.”

[brooklin]

“WHY were so many of our Brave Warriors ferried in on ONE slow moving “bus” a Chinook as opposed to splitting them up on several Hawks and Hueys and WHERE was the air support from our Fast Movers and Cobras?”

This may depend on the altitude that they are operating at. I don’t know any particulars about the situation, but at altitude the ch 47 is more capable than the smaller choppers.

[Munz]

Mogadishu all over again .. they are looking to take our soldiers. Drag dead bodies around on live television to get the American people to put pressure on politicians to pull out.

[mcshot]

Our brave warriors were probably part of a propaganda operation to ensure the leader's story was protected from the truth.

[PapaBear3625]

The loss of so many SEALs was a significant blow to our capabilities. The kind of guy who has what it takes to be a SEAL is rare, and the training it takes to turn this rare guy into a SEAL is expensive.

We lost many of our very best.