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posting this anti-American tripe belies any 'noble' intent.

Please let us know how this "tripe" is off-the mark. I'm sure there are many lurkers that would benefit from your detailed analysis.

How can anyone give a detailed analysis of what happened at Shahikot? The action is barely even over. Hagenback, who is probably the one who is the most in the know given that he has access to the drone videos and the situation reports, has said that we killed on the order of 500+ Al Qaeda and Taliban at a loss of 8 Americans. And with regard to the 8 deaths, I believe 7 of those occurred on the first night of the operation when one helicopter that was attempting to put reconnaissance teams in on the high ground was ambushed and lost Neil Roberts and the troops in another helicopter were then hit when they went back in to get his body. The point being that our problem was almost certainly not a training problem, given that it was highly trained special operators who were killed, but instead a loose lips problem with our Afghan 'allies'.