Posted on 09/08/2012 11:28:46 AM PDT by NCDragon
WASHINGTON — It was another week at war in Afghanistan, another string of American casualties, and another collective shrug by a nation weary of a faraway conflict whose hallmark is its grinding inconclusiveness.
After nearly 11 years, many by now have grown numb to the sting of losing soldiers like Pfc. Shane W. Cantu of Corunna, Mich. He died of shrapnel wounds in the remoteness of eastern Afghanistan, not far from the getaway route that Osama bin Laden took when U.S. forces invaded after Sept. 11, 2001, and began America's longest war.
Cantu was 10 back then.
Nearly every day the Pentagon posts another formulaic death notice, each one brief and unadorned, revealing the barest of facts - name, age and military unit - but no words that might capture the meaning of the loss.
Cantu, who joined the Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade on Sept. 11 last year and went to Afghanistan last month, was among five U.S. deaths announced this past week, as the Democrats and Republicans wrapped up back-to-back presidential nominating conventions.
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This war is becoming this generations Vietnam War, never ending, non-sensical and the destroyer of our nation's treasure!
Strangely the drumbeat stopped cold on January 20th 2009.
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Yes, this article tries to absolve Big Media for ignoring their almighty body count since Hussein’s coronation, by blaming US.
It was in the Media every day when Bush was present, but for some reasont the Media ignores casualties these days.
Must have something to do with their being in the bag for Obama.
The US military is trained to take the battle to the enemy, not to sit around in a compound waiting for a call. We need to clean out the enemy with no prohibitive rules of engagement; then turn the peace keeping over to NATO and get out.
The US military is trained to take the battle to the enemy, not to sit around in a compound waiting for a call. We need to clean out the enemy with no prohibitive rules of engagement; then turn the peace keeping over to NATO and get out.
The US military is trained to take the battle to the enemy, not to sit around in a compound waiting for a call. We need to clean out the enemy with no prohibitive rules of engagement; then turn the peace keeping over to NATO and get out.
The US military is trained to take the battle to the enemy, not to sit around in a compound waiting for a call. We need to clean out the enemy with no prohibitive rules of engagement; then turn the peace keeping over to NATO and get out.
The US military is trained to take the battle to the enemy, not to sit around in a compound waiting for a call. We need to clean out the enemy with no prohibitive rules of engagement; then turn the peace keeping over to NATO and get out.
The US military is trained to take the battle to the enemy, not to sit around in a compound waiting for a call. We need to clean out the enemy with no prohibitive rules of engagement; then turn the peace keeping over to NATO and get out.
sorry about he multiple posts, have no idea what happened.
ElPadre... you might wanna quit *sneezing* before you try to post! :)
I suppose it is our fault. We should have taken torches and pitchforks to the MSM a long time ago.
“.....This war is becoming this generations Vietnam War, never ending, non-sensical and the destroyer of our nation’s treasure!”
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I agree. Afghanistan has convinced me that when countries such as Afghanistan become a cesspool we need to NOT GET INVOLVED. We need to just let them rot, don’t accept their so called “refugees” and, should they engage in any aggression against America (directly or indirectly), just bomb the hell out of them from a distance but commit no ground troops.
With rare exceptions, most of the Islamic world is not worth one American serviceman’s life or wounding.
I don’t understand “War weary” the media in this country dont report enough about war to make a child frightened the only time i hear about war is from some other news agency in another country our agencies report just enough about our troops and war to piss a person off and want the enemy dead ...
War Weary i think not !
actually, I think something happened in the UVA-PSU game at the critical moment.
We should have nuked Russia when they tested their first bomb. Message: "You can't have those. We already have them. We will use them. Stop your research."
And we should have nuked any other country that tested such a bomb. Stop them cold before they build an arsenal.
We should have nuked the Yalu River like McArthur wanted to.
We could have nuked Vietnam.
If we were the only country on the planet with that capability, who would dare to start trouble -- anywhere? The world would be a better, more peaceful, more prosperous place if the USA had the courage to use nuclear weapons against the bad guys.
9-12-01 would have been a fine day to unleash nuclear weapons.
Tomorrow would also be OK.
That's because those kinds of criticisms work with the Republican base. We expect our president to be a competent CiC with clear objectives. Democrats mostly don't serve and don't really care as long as they remain unaffected on a personal level. Oh, they enjoy taking pot-shots at a Republican president, but if it wasn't about a war it would be about some other topic-of-opportunity.
Right now we have a socialist-Democrat in the WH. He isn't paying attention, and by Republican standards is a disaster at being CiC. But the Media won't talk about it, and Democrats demonstrably don't care.
It's partly that. But a lot of the casualties in Afghanistan are happening in small bases up on the mountainous frontier with Pakistan. A Taliban force sneaks up close (a la the Viet Cong) and lobs a bunch of rockets at these observation posts while trying to overrun them before the (US/NATO) aerial firepower kicks-in. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
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