[kbennkc]

The announcement of 16 deaths of the finest America has to offer was already burning my eyes when I found this. The propaganda ministry (lame stream media) has been preparing us for negotiations to include the Taliban into the Afghan government. With 50 Al Qaeda in the entire country, I can not understand our tactics let alone our strategy.

[ex-snook]

"With 50 Al Qaeda in the entire country, I can not understand our tactics let alone our strategy. "

It used to be called mission creep or wag the dog. Now with the Navy there maybe we are still trying to find a new route to India. In short FUBAR.

[wtc911]

We have no strategy and our tactics are reactionary.

This debacle calls to mind those arguments of a few years ago about "you can't say you support the troops if you don't support the mission". Some of us argued that this is pure nonsense, sometimes one has to oppose the mission in order to support the troops. This is one of those times.

[mrsmith]

Our strategy is to make Obama look tough in Afghanistan.
Our tactic is to have the media manipulate coverage to effect that.

[Gay State Conservative]

Fair enough.The body of our dead Sailor,plus our live one, for the bodies of *all* your knuckledragging,pig fornicating pals.

[Thunder 6]

God be with that captured Sailor. To be taken alive was about the worst thing one could imagine over there.

regards,

[Drew68]

Now with the Navy there maybe we are still trying to find a new route to India.

Any word on the identity of the sailors? Or their rank and rates?

From the details of what happened, I'm guessing they weren't corpsmen or special warfare. They were probably Individual Augmentee (IA). There's a lot of this these days. IA sailors are ones that for whichever bit of bad luck came their way, they were selected to go to Iraq or, most commonly these days, Afghanistan. Prior to deployment, they're sent off to Ft. Bliss or some other INCONUS training installation and given a very abbreviated lesson in soldiering. Then it's off to Afghanistan were they provide behind the lines administrative support that frees up the Army and Marines for combat duties.

As far as I know, no IA sailors have been KIA yet. Navy combat deaths have tended to be limited to corpsman and special warfare but I could be wrong. This might be a first.

[airborne]

RFID chips planted on any A-Q prisoners released.

Track them back to their hide outs and exterminate with extreme prejudice.