I read it was something like the 29th trip by the same unarmored convoy down the same road to do the same job.
The “friendly village elders” who assured the SFs it was perfectly safe probably drew the ambush maps for the attackers.
Instead of winning their hearts and minds (useless in a moslem nation) we should drop Hellfires on the village that betrayed us, to teach the other village elders that they have more to fear from the US than the jihadists.
But instead, we’ll go back in with more money, more PC nonsense, and get betrayed again and again.
(Something like 80% of A-stan’s GDP is direct US aid, and still the Taliban is regaining control.)
Think how different Afghanistan would be today if instead of soldiers we had sent nuns and made all the children attend Catholic school.
I’ve read a couple stories that claim the village “elders” delayed them while the ambush was being set up.