Posted on 09/09/2014 10:01:16 AM PDT by sunmars
In parts of Helmand province, the UK and the US lost more soldiers in the long Afghan war than any other Afghan area. Helmand – where the fighting was long and hard. Helmand – where so many lost limbs or were otherwise terribly mutilated in a long and now lost war by a Nato now thoroughly preoccupied with matters elsewhere.
But 6 September the New York Times published an important report with the story Kabuli officials want to cover up and nobody anywhere near Nato would want to tell.
They are saying more than 200 police officers and Afghan soldiers have been killed there across the summer, and one key town, Musa Qala – over which the British fought – is in danger of falling again to Taliban control.
09 taliban r w Resurgent Taliban threaten US exit strategy for Afghanistan
The Times says:
“‘The situation is deteriorating and the Taliban are almost in the bazaar,’ the governor of Musa Qala district, Haji-Mohammad Sharif, said Friday night. ‘If the situation remains the same, the district will soon fall to the hands of the Taliban.’”
Officials say the Musa Qala fighting has been particularly heavy in the past 10 days, but there has also been a sustained offensive in Sangin, where I reported on successive British army units patrolling the poppy fields down the years and claiming to be building firm relations with the local leaders for a transition one day in the future, to Afghan army forces.
According to one New York Times source, an army general speaking on condition of anonymity, the Taliban have launched 788 attacks in the past three months in Sangin and in two neighbouring districts, Nowzad and Kajaki – all of these names more than familiar to any British soldier who spent time in Helmand.
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ISIS, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Boko Haram, Al Shabaab, they are all the same: Muslims.....................
Important threat to who?
Girls and women in Afghanistan?
Neighbors in Southwest Asia?
Europe?
The US Homeland?
no.....to Obama’s EXIT STRATEGY!
Yep...I call that a “common denominator”.
yep...............just horrible, horrible. I so despise these people always worried about 0
how much you wanna bet obama/valjar leaves all that US military vehicles and everything else for the taliban?
Yup, you can bet on it, if I was a soldier, i’d be blowing that all up before I left the place.....
Place just needs a low yield nuke in reality.
Yup!
Nope, we are bringing it back. My son is there now deconstructing.
Well that is wonderful news to hear. I am surprised really.
Screw it, let the Russians have it for all I care.
And after 13 years there, the Afghans are growing more poppies than ever, selling over 50% of the world’s entire supply of heroin.
Amazing that we did not make a dent in that after all these years.
Gosh, I wonder why?
Our idiot President already showed his hand by telling the enemy WHEN we’re leaving.
Guess what? THEY CAN WAIT US OUT and prepare for that inevitable day.
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Libya, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Qatar, they are all the same: muslims..........
My thoughts exactly. Nuke ‘em I say. Let the real God sort them out.
As with Veetnam they won’t wait for anything. As we take a step back they fill the footprint. There might be a full day difference between our last day and their first.
It’s a great opportunity for enemy islamist ø to murder more Americans. Everything else is work. Even golf.
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