Posted on 07/20/2013 7:21:43 AM PDT by kristinn
COMBAT OUTPOST WILDERNESS, Afghanistan — The Taliban and its allies are plotting a bloody and spectacular end to U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.
Foreign fighters are pouring into the eastern part of the country to take on U.S. and allied forces in what will likely be the final fighting season for American troops here.
Pakistani-based terror groups like the Haqqani Network and others are calling upon “every house, every family” to send fighters into Afghanistan, Afghan army commanders stationed at the American base in Paktia province told The Hill.
“The madrassas are emptying" in Pakistan, added Lt. Col. David Hamann, who leads the American Security Force Assistance Advisory Team (SFAAT) at Combat Outpost Matun Hill.
The influx of foreign insurgents ahead of the White House’s 2014 troop withdrawal deadline comes just as the administration is facing mounting public pressure to end the war quickly.
The administration is struggling to decide whether to leave any troops behind after 2014, and has revived the “zero option” postwar plan that would leave no troops in the country post-2014.
The offensive by terrorist groups in a fighting season that continues until snows fill mountain passes this fall suggests they hope to take back the country as swiftly as possible, and will not waste any time waiting for the U.S. to leave.
It also suggests terrorists want to impose as much pain as they can on the U.S. in the months remaining.
While there is always an influx of foreign fighters as part of the annual fighting season, this year looks different, according to Lt. Col. Mohammad Ebrahim, commander of the Afghan army's 6th Kandak.
Pakistani militants in North and South Waziristan are ordering every family in those regions to send all fighting-age males into Afghanistan.
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Pray for our troops and their families. And pray for a country that would do such a thing to them.
nuke ‘em and leave.
Fly, meet fly paper.
And why wouldn’t they do this. They know the game is over after this in any case. If Obama had honor, he’d call off any more fighting now, before he puts our troops in senseless danger.
The Biblical phrase, “Delivered in the hands of the enemy”, really has been resonating for the last several years.
I don't think so. The Commies, for the most part, had the sense to wait until U.S. troops had gone home lest they provoke a backlash.
The Islamonazis want to kill as many of us as possible before we withdraw and fear no backlash from this sorry excuse of a president.
While the US troops will be at greater risk, they will also have great opportunity. I am glad that the madrassas’ are emptying and that AQ and its affiliates are encouraging every fanatic to converge on AFG. Why, you ask? Because killing them there is and always will be easier and preferable to them living and eventually coming to our and other western nations’ shores.
Just as in IRQ, we will respond with great precision and lethality as masses (albeit not in the sense of WWII or Korea masses) of enemy make themselves available to our targeting and weapon systems. Hoorah!
All this said, I know there will cost, cost of blood and futures of more of our young treasures. That makes me sad.
But a sadder day would be when these (otherwise terminal) criminals would be found on our shores, in our towns and in our streets, with vile intent; hiding behind our sacred liberties.
So, yes; kill them there.
Then leave, with eyes on; and isolate AFG for the social, moral, political and religious crap hole it is and always will be as long as the rule of representative law is absent.
This regional example should make us all think hard about our involvement in our own political process; the rule of man vice law is becoming more and more apparent as we can readily see in the news most everyday. We should never become a nation of political conformists; rather we must always stand for individual and thereby collective liberties.
10-4 ... should have from the start and held onto our Men and Women. The message sent was one of weakness.
Afghanistan has seen Soviets come and go... who would/could have thunk that the US would come, but then go more like the Soviets did?
Our dear leader has no understanding of'Honor'.
Some would equate obligation to party, bit 0 knows that is just for the proles.
Actually the Dems want this to end badly. Then the new rally cry will be, “Remember Afghanistan”, and not Remember Vietnam.
Amen. Burn the opium, salt the fields, and GTFO.
Manly Warrior - well said. Gather the hot heads to the rat bait and kill them there.
“isolate AFG for the social, moral, political and religious crap hole it is”
I haven’t heard anything about the opium trade and industry there since Bush was in the WH.
Manly Warrior - well said. Gather the hot heads to the rat bait and kill them there.
My full agreement but the truth is the politicians want conflict and strife. Is good for the money business.
exactly
Will be the battle of ever more till a leader comes to say never more.
>>Is good for the money business.
Conflict, Strife, and Hopelessness have naturally fed the narcotics industry throughout human history.
The Appetite of Tyranny is never far removed fro the Tyranny of the Appetite.
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