A group of US soldiers got caught up in a roadside bombing in the Ghazni Province of Afghanistan on Tuesday. At least three US soldiers were confirmed killed, and three others wounded. Another American, a contractor, was also wounded.
This is the single deadliest incident for US troops in Afghanistan in 2018. High casualty incidents were more common earlier in the war, but US troops are less often on the front lines, or in places where they’re likely to directly face such attacks.
The condition of the wounded remains unclear, though officials did say that they have been evacuated and are receiving treatment. In general, details are limited until the families of the casualties are notified.
Taliban forces have been heavily contesting Ghazni Province in recent weeks, and that may be why more US forces are present in the area. This is the second case of US deaths in Afghanistan in less than a week, with another soldier having died of wounds in a gunfight in Nimruz Province on Saturday.
The US has spent seventeen years trying to defeat the people it deposed from the Afghan government, but now settles for “making sure the Taliban realize that they cannot win on the battlefield.”
Dunford at Halifax, Nov 18:
“Success in Afghanistan is an Afghan-owned, Afghan-led reconciliation process,” Dunford said. “That requires us to have political pressure, social pressure and military pressure. In the military dimension, our task is to make sure the Taliban realize that they cannot win on the battlefield.”
Times have changed, apparently. The curriculum at the army war college must include that successful wars end in a reconciliation process.
Poppycock. There will be a winner and it won’t be the US. That’s obvious. One would think that after seventeen years it ought to be the failed US generals that would realize that they cannot win on the battlefield. But that would involve duty, honor, country. . .and some intelligent thought. All are lacking in their self-important empty uniforms.
Three more dead babykillers.
Oh well, they read the fine print, I’m sure… go to kill, go to be killed.
Slamming U.S men and women in uniform for the sins of DC is lazy and not very debatable.
Allah and Sweet Lord Jesus are with the Taliban patriots and against the invader and its puppet government.
After 17 years this has to be a tough sell to the family for the pentagon. How do you continue with the bullshit that these men died for any significant cause?
Too bad that we don’t have a political party in America that just calmly asks :
“Why the Hell are we still there?”
We do. IIRC, you used to be a member, even.
If you are speaking of the Libertarian Party – are you sure – I remember being at a Florida state Convention, where supposedly, the body voted down a resolution condemning the Clinton administration for slaughtering US citizens at Waco. The vote was done by everyone closing their eyes and by a show of hands (which only the presiding officer could see and count). Reminded me of something from grade school.
That’s pretty messed up.
I resigned from my position as an alternate on the Libertarian National Committee shortly after it put out a wishy-washy, not really supporting, not really opposing, statement on the invasion of Afghanistan. It took them a little while to get right on that one, but they’ve been right on it for at least 15 years now.
Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by News from Antiwar,com.
…well F U
Sensible political parties are not allowed, primarily by Dems and Repubs at the state level where two-party cronyism rules all elections. Nader wrote a book on it — Crashing the Party.
Amazon Review:
NYTimes:
A witness said the bomb in Ghazni went off as an American convoy passed
on the highway. “The convoy set off a roadside mine, and there was smoke
all over the place,” said the witness, Haji Abdulamin, a local
resident. “The road was blocked, and a few minutes later helicopters
landed and took the dead.” . .here
The highways in Afghanistan are unsafe, is why people of importance (Afghan puppets and US generals) travel by air (helicopter, usually). Unimportant people like US troops travel by road, which is why they have these events that kill people or blow their legs off as one might encounter in a US mall, on a wheelchair.
Why can’t the world’s best military win it’s wars? America in denial. The only war the War Dept wins is it’s $700 billion budget.