Another sad day in Afghanistan
Posted By Bouhammer on October 26, 2009
Today started with some bad news out of Afghanistan. We lost 14 of our Americans in that country’s war today. Several were civilians and seeing that the Chinook that went down in Badghdis province was involved in a mission to target drug traffickers, I am assuming they were DEA agents or something similar. From the reports this morning, the Chinook was just leaving the area of operation as the mission was over.
Un-related, but on the same day was a mid-air collision between two helicopters in the southern area of the country. So far the military is saying that neither were as a result of enemy fire, but I suggest you wait and see. For I/O reasons, they (the military) should initially caution against assuming enemy fire brings down every helicopter that crashes. The reason is because the enemy will use that as an admission by the US military that the enemy was successful.
Either way, the facts will come out in the next few days, and by then these brave young souls will be back or close to being back to their families one last time.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569525,00.html
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Will there ever really be an end in sight. The War on Terror is far more difficult to claim a victory than any other conflict our country’s has ever faced. There is no real enemy. Terrorism is an ideology. Oh sure, the press wants to talk about militias, “insurgents” (weird word choice)…but there’s no clear enemy. It’s a frightening concept.
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A great video showing why Obama can’t win in Afghanistan:
tp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_t3yfAhNb4