Posted on 08/14/2018 11:45:17 AM PDT by McGruff
The Taliban are on the verge of dramatically expanding their control over southern and eastern Afghanistan in a surprise offensive that has caught Afghan and U.S. forces off guard and thrown a vexing new wrench into the Trump administration’s strategy for ending the nearly 17-year-old war there.
The Afghan Defense Ministry said Monday a Taliban assault on the city of Ghanzi — a key provincial capital linking other areas under the Islamic militant group’s control just 75 miles southeast of Kabul — has killed roughly 100 Afghan security forces and some 20 civilians over the past three days.
While the Afghan forces, backed by U.S. and NATO advisers, claimed Monday night to have retained control of central Ghanzi, local reports indicated Taliban fighters still held pockets of the city and had simultaneously swept in and taken over most of the surrounding province’s rural areas.
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Let it burn.
Tet offensive redux?
Kill everything that moves. People, animals, whatever. Burn everything. Destroy all dams and bridges. Paint their agricultural land with agent orange. Make no distinction between friend or foe—they are all the same basically, depends on day of the week. They've lived amid ruins for thousands of years. Let us show them what real ruin is. Send them to Allah PDQ.
That’s what the Russians did. Didn’t change anything.
AFP, Washington Tuesday, 14 August 2018
A US special operations soldier has been killed in a bomb blast in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, the Pentagon said Monday.
According to a statement, Staff Sergeant Reymund Rarogal Transfiguracion died Sunday after an improvised explosive device detonated near him while he was conducting combat patrol operations.
The 36-year-old from Hawaii was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group.
Make a list of the nations in world history that have succeeded in subduing Afghanistan.
Get all the nations on that list together, THEY CAN ALL COOPERATE AND make the place glow in the dark, and turn it into a Regional Park.
MOHAMMED I MEMORIAL KORANIMAL PARK.
Let’s take our illegal aliens over to Afghanistan to colonize it.
Give them each 40 acres.
This is a national embarrassment. Been there almost 17 years and we still get blindsided by surprise offensives? In 3 years and 8 months we crushed the nazi war machine and the Japanese empire from basically not much more than a standing start.
If our government and Generals had the slightest sense of honor or shame, they would resign, commit hari-kiri or something.
It wasn’t ever really a unified country. Has always been a group of warlords ruling over tribes.
After 17 years of letting the opium crop increase every year, it's amazing that the Taliban has waited this long to make a major offensive against one or more cities along the Kabul to Kandahar highway. Maybe once we're focused on where they are now they'll launch an offensive against one of the endpoints, either Kabul or Kandahar.
What a FUBAR disaster. There was a time in which we had initiative in all aspects of the war and then we invaded Iraq. The rest is history that makes Bush and Obama idiots.
That right there says is all partner.
Win-Win.
I like it.
That’s what the Russians did. Didn’t change anything.
Hey, any thing the Russians can screw up,
we can screw up better.
Uh, wait. That doesn’t sound right...
That's the best news to come out of this. At least Trump's trying to get us out. Way past time for Afghanistan to fend for itself.
Yeah, but the Ruskies didn't have the "diversity" weapon like we do...
The latest:
Aug. 15, 2018
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents overran an Afghan Army base and a police checkpoint in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 39 soldiers and police officers, officials said, and a suicide bomber in the capital killed at least 48 people in a classroom.
Hundreds of Taliban fighters carried out the predawn attacks on two units of Afghan forces in the Baghlan-e-Markazi District of Baghlan Province, according to a police official who was at the scene and who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/world/asia/afghanistan-base-attack-taliban.html
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