All is well! The enemy will be destroyed upon entering the capital! Victory will be ours!
I totally agree that this is a big deal that is being played down. My dh asked me what the reports said about the attack (he’s over there.) I told him about the Fox News report that said there were only 6 insurgents that did this. He snorted. “Don’t believe everything you read.”
I'm sure it's a "big deal" to the families of the 14 who were killed.
If it was no big deal, then why wasn’t he sipping tea out on the front porch? Noticed the bad guys were being supported by our good friends in Pokki-ston. How much did Hussein cut a check for them this week?
No big deal, update:
27 dead, 20-hour fire fight
11 were Afghan civilians, half of them children
5 Afghan police officers dead
11 insurgents dead: 7 in the clearing operation inside the building where the attackers were holed up near the U.S. embassy.
4 were suicide bombers.
Ground truthing the 20 hour assault
suggests someone might be ‘off their rocker’.
If this happened under Bush it would be likened to the Tet Offensive.
Any attack that kills people is a big deal. However, this attack seems to be the best they could pull off to “celebrate” 9/11. Bin Laden was reportedly trying to arrange something spectacular in the USA for the tenth anniversary to the 9/11 attacks. It looks to me like they couldn’t even come close, so they did this a couple days later because they felt like they had to do “something” or lose face.
“Sounds like a big deal to me.”
I guess it might not have been such a big deal if the ambassador was one of the dead. Too bad.
I don't consider 9 Taliban and 6 RPGs to be that big a deal.
If you are one of the Afghan families that lost a loved one.
If you panic easily or are frantically looking for some excuse to exit Afghanistan RIGHT NOW. e.g.: RON PAUL! (or is it Ronpaul!)
In the grand scheme of things this was a typical grandstand attack. Probably their big 9/11, we still matter, attack. Or it could be their, winter is coming and we need to expend these foreigners (non-pashtun fellow travelers) so we don't have to feed them all winter, attack.
Funny: When I ran spell checker, non-pashtun was corrected to nonpolluting.
IOW:
Please don’t fire me.
Please don’t fire me.
Please don’t fire me.
Please don’t fire me.
Please, oh please don’t fire me.
“lasted for 19 hours and left 14 people dead in a barrage of gunfire and suicide blasts”
“`tis but a scratch,” sayeth brave Sir Robama.
Yep, no big deal. And, cutting and running in Iraq and Afghanistan, cutting the military budget, yet having the DOD budget paying billions for ‘green’ housing on bases and not keeping us up to date on weapons that could deter Red China isn’t a big deal either.
This so much reminds me of Tet. The primary thing you saw on the news was the attack on the U.S. embassy. Tet was of such significance as a holiday that a truce was declared. When the attacks came the South Vietnamese armed forces were on vacation and had to find their way back to their units. They did so and before it was over had crushed nearly every VC main force unit in the country. They did it; not the U.S. The VC not only lost something like 60,000 killed, but more importantly in an Asian society they lost “face”. This country remained clueless and Johnson chickened out.
Certainly it shattered forever the lives of the families of the MP’s killed, but the big deal should have been erasing the myth that South Vietnam was fighting an insurgency.
A 19-hour assault on the capital city (after having had 10 years to secure the place) is no big deal?
Why are we in Afghanistan again? Isn’t OBL dead?
Lots of ignorant comments here!
Having served at Embassy Kabul not long ago, I can tell you that attacks do occur occasionally in Kabul, including targeting the embassy. I was knocked out of my bunk when a VBIED blew up on the other side of a defensive barrier. Rockets have struck the compound walls. Everyone at the embassy practices drills to respond to attacks. It just comes with the territory.
The enemy will always be able to assemble a few suicide fighters and launch RPGs and small arms fire against a target. It doesn’t mean this is Tet II, however. Far from it.