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.
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.
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.
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'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.
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