On Thursday, an insider attack in Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province killed materially all of the top-ranking officials in the provincial government. The Pentagon downplayed the matter, saying two Americans were wounded, but that the top general present was unharmed.
What they didn’t reveal until Sunday was that the “serviceman” wounded in the attack was actually Brigadier General Jeffrey Smiley, a high-ranking advisor for the NATO mission in southern Afghanistan. He was shot, and is recovering.
Already the most significant insider attack of the war, having basically taken out the provincial government, this makes it an even bigger attack, as it means a Taliban gunman also got close enough to shoot a US general after killing all these people.
Gen. Scott Miller, who is currently in charge of the war, was also in the room during the attack, though he appears to be one of the few who got out unharmed. In addition to Smiley, an unnamed American civilian also got shot.
Karma is a bitch !
You’re absolutely right, Vic, Karma certainly is a bitch. Here, we have a Taliban gunman getting pass Afghan security and not only killing a bunch of officials, but wounding a US Brigadier General as well. It’s time to withdraw from Afghanistan, we’ve been there far too long (17 years), and we haven’t accomplished anything.
The definition of this is known as repeating the same actions and expecting different results.