Posted on 06/11/2017 5:35:16 PM PDT by Ray76
Three American service members were killed and another wounded Saturday when an Afghan soldier opened fire on them in the country's eastern Nangarhar province, U.S. officials said.
In a statement, the Pentagon said the wounded soldier had been evacuated for treatment and the incident was under investigation.
The so-called insider attack the second of its kind this year happened in Nangarhar, where Afghan troops and U.S. special operations forces have been locked in combat with an Islamic State-affiliated militant group for months.
The shooter was killed immediately.
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And in retribution.
insider attack
Now we're talking
I heard some former military guy on Fox say the Afghan Army “still needs more training”. Really? After 15 years of training what is another 5 or 10 years going to “teach” them? What was that definition of insanity?
Yep. They are tribesmen. Tribesmen don’t consider themselves citizens of a nation, they are members of a tribe, first and foremost. Their only real ambition is to be a warrior worthy of their ancestors. Their loyalty is to their tribe, and any force that seeks authority over their tribe (such as a national government) is by definition their enemy. The more we try to push one on them the more they will hate and fight us. I said when we first started trying to build a national government it wouldn’t work. We would have been much better off simply buying off the tribal leaders directly and help them kill each other.
“Exactly why are we still in this sh*thole?”
That’s always been my feeling. For all of my adult life, Afghanistan has been either killing it’s own, killing the Russians, or killing Americans. Personally, I’d like to see us let them go back to #1. All Muslims are filth. Afghans are the lowest filth of them all. That whole effing part of the world isn’t worth another young American’s life.
I think more and more people are waking up to this reality (the McCaniacs and Grahamnestyiacs aside).
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I hope you’re right. Unfortunately, the people in charge can’t seem to stop trying to making the world more business-friendly for all members of the uniparty.
Even with extreme vetting some get through.
“THE PRICE OF FREEDOM” isn’t cheap.
Yeah the Soviets were real humanitarians :)
Are you NUTS?!?!?! :)
Let’s just get the #### out.
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