A statement from NATO today reported that at least eight soldiers from their occupation force were slain in a series of bomb blasts across southern Afghanistan over the past two days. The statement offered no details on the nationalities of the slain.
However, an unnamed Afghan official quoted in several Western media outlets identified at least four of the eight slain as Americans. The report is the first major casualty report of the new year, though two other soldiers were reported slain earlier this week (one American and one British) in two separate incidents.
Three of the slain were killed in an IED blast yesterday, while one was killed today in an insurgent attack and four others were killed in a roadside bomb. The deadliest attack took place in the Kandahar Province, reportedly not far from a US military base.
Large casualty incidents are unusual in January, as Afghanistan has little infrastructure and harsh winters, making much of the nation impassable until spring. Though the length of the winters varies, they usually last well into March or April.
Well, the 8 soldiers killed are testament to the failure of America in Iraq. They came, the carried out Shock and Awe, they occupied, they brutalized, then, after they failed, they left.
America has failed completely at imperialism. You'd think it would go back to its own borders and have a rethink, wouldn't you?
America can't even protect its own borders.
So eight more killed – four Americans – because they don't like your freedom.
Perhaps they don't have time to read your media.
Not the MSM – no one who wants the facts reads that – but the alternative sort.
They haven't caught up with the fact that the American government can clandestinely or otherwise arrest an American in America and he just disappears.
Or is sent abroad for torture.
That is American 'freedom'.
No!
Maybe its just because America and the other home countries of the other four are over in their country, illegally, bombing, murdering and plundering.
If you want to stop NATO troops dying get the hell out and let the Afghans rule themselves.
Oops!! Oops!!
That will never do.
What will fund the 'black ops' budget with no poppies?.
Can't have that.
Thats why we invaded Afghanistan. The nasty taliban which the CIA went to such expense to create to beat the Ruskies threatened to stop the poppies.
Hells bells we had to beat the crap out them when they threatened that, says 6 pack.
Isn't it strange how we never hear about how many Afghanistanis died today?
Of bomb or bullet or grenade or drone wounds?
Or of a broken heart?
Or of How many widows and widowers were created by sundown?
Or orphans before dawn?
Or para/quadrapalegics or newly blinded or deafened,
or rendered homeless, and/and hopeless
and/or clinically insane?
Karma is such a pitilessly judicious thing….
…when America's time comes, it will be ugly.
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Since the US and the Karzi government do not officially track civilian casualties, and there are so few reporters on the ground within Afghanistan, it is very difficult to track civilian casualties. That is not to say I am opposed to reporting any and all civilian casualty counts, or reporting any casualty counts whether civilian or military. While individuals opposed to the Afghan war do not have access to adequate civilian casualty counts they do have access to ninety per cent or more of US combat deaths directly from the Department of Defense web site. The DOD makes timely reports on U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan pending notification of kin. The constant stream of casualties being reported almost daily by the Department of Defense is hardly a positive for selling the war effort to the general public. Proof of the negative effects of daily US combat deaths being reported on a daily basis is the studious way in which the main stream media avoids reporting daily US combat casualties.
It is therefore incumbent on the opposition press to fill the void and report the truth about the staggering number of U.S. combat deaths, and horrendous injuries pouring out of Afghanistan on a daily basis. And finally to prove the fact that the U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan is being defeated by the Taliban, and this futile war must end before one more life is wasted on either side I welcome the thorough reporting by Jason Ditz concerning the recent spike in NATO and U. S. combat dead and hope it continues. It is now some of the best found at any web site.