The record 2010 death toll in Afghanistan is again on the rise today, as two days of attacks across the nation have left at least 14 NATO troops killed. The nationalities of the troops have yet to be released.
Six soldiers were killed yesterday in three attacks, including four who were killed in a single roadside bombing in the south. The other two were killed in separate incidents in the south and the east.
Eight more were killed today in five additional attacks, including three who died in an IED attack in the west of the nation, underscoring the reality that while the south is the most dangerous part of Afghanistan, the war is still very much active across the entire nation.
Today’s deaths bring the 2010 toll to 588, by far the most since the war began. Generally the violence begins to quiet down in November with the first frost, as decades of failed occupations bookending civil wars has left the nation with virtually no infrastructure, and most regions become virtually impassable in the winter.
Afghanistan could well be the undoing of NATO. How the west could get involved in Afghanistan and make the same mistakes as the old Soviet Union in their experience in that courtry is beyond reason. There is an arrogance in the West that we are superior to other peoples. The logistical problems of supplying an army of 150,000 troops are growing and the war is now into it's tenth year and we are no closer to victory.
It must be 'the Surge', some of that Bush magic from Iraq washing over into another Bush inspired failure. Maybe 'global warming' will give the Taliban a little more time to stain the ground with the blood of invaders.
Five US marines were killed in Helmand province Wed., Oct. 13, including four in one incident which means they probably were killed by an IED. The DOD does not report the reason for deaths in Helmand due to security reasons. The oldest of the five killed was 22.
Helmand province was supposedly the test of the surge strategy. Ten of twenty two combat deaths this month in Afghanistan have been in Helmand. The surge is a failure. The US is loosing this war.
Losing a war is of no concern to the U.S. It's fighting them that's important. Look at Vietnam!
Besides the U.S. armament manufacturers are going flat out, making a fortune. The U.S. if it could, would like every nation in the world to be at war and buying billions of dollars of American arms, planes, tanks, etc.
A world full of endless war, the ultimate American wet dream!
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Unfortunately you are 100% correct in your observations.
Meanwhile the news focuses on the View and Bill O….
140 troops KIA overnight, (Americans only) Might, might, catch the attention
of the mainstream US media.
Other than that, it's like miners in China, they lose them on
fairly regular basis, despite all the ballyhoo recently elsewhere.
It's just a cost of doing business, as most industries produce
pollution, in one form or other, so it is with the USAs principle
export.
It's a business, nothing more, nothing less.
M