British allies lose five more in Afghanistan; public support wanes
Five British troops in Helmand Province have been killed by an Afghan policeman inside a supposedly secure military base. Another six were wounded. Two Afghan police officers were wounded as well, and their attacker apparently escaped. The Times of London reports that the assailant had been with the Afghan police for two years.
The heavy death toll raises the number of British dead in Afghanistan this year to 94, and comes at a delicate time.In a poll taken last month for the Times of London, 36 percent of British adults supported pulling all troops out of Afghanistan immediately, and another 32 percent called for withdrawal within a year regardless of the situation on the ground.
So far, both the Labour and Conservative parties support a continued commitment in Afghanistan. But with 68 percent calling for full withdrawal within a year, that stance may be difficult to sustain.
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Jefferson
November 4th, 2009
11:53 am
Nothing to win there, bring home the brave men.
Normal
November 4th, 2009
11:54 am
Maybe if England pulls out, we can too
I Report :-) You Whine :-( Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 4th, 2009
11:56 am
What’s Obozo’s, mmm, mmmm, mmmmm, excuse this week?
I Report :-) You Whine :-( Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 4th, 2009
11:57 am
He was busy kampaigning for Corzine, hardee, har, har.
getalife
November 4th, 2009
12:02 pm
“COLUMBUS — Ohio voters have opened their wallets to veterans, easily approving bonuses of up to $1,000 for those who served in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan or Iraq.”
Now that is a great idea.
Common Sense
November 4th, 2009
12:04 pm
Yep ……… the British. They could have had us in the Revolutionary War but they got tired and quit.
“When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.”
Rudyard Kipling
“When civilized man can no longer stand the horror of war and refuses to fight, then he will surely be killed or enslaved by the uncivilized who can.”
Author Unknown
Turd Ferguson
November 4th, 2009
12:11 pm
1st, get all the heroin.
2nd, bomb the hell out of them.
3rd, take a heroin break.
4th, bomb them some more.
I Report :-) You Whine :-( Ate Up With Envy mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 4th, 2009
12:13 pm
Time to work on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
Normal
November 4th, 2009
12:15 pm
Bring our troops out of that hellhole, rest them, refit them, then let’s see.
Normal
November 4th, 2009
12:16 pm
Whiner, you’re a real blessing to mankind…just sayin’
Turd Ferguson
November 4th, 2009
12:19 pm
Give Obobo a helmet and gun then send his sorry-Ace over there.
Joan
November 4th, 2009
12:22 pm
I am a fiscal conservative, and would just as soon have unwanted kids aborted, and would love it if someone would do a reality check on our purpose for staying in the Mideast. There is no way in the world we will put a democracy in place in that hellhole. There is no way to contain the Taliban there. We need to try to keep the Taliban, and others who would destroy this country–like Pelosi and Reid, who do more harm than any Taliban member ever could–out of this country and out of our lives. Put our troops on our own borders. We are under invasion, and nobody seems to care.
Common Sense
November 4th, 2009
12:24 pm
“Peace is that brief, glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading”. Anonymous
“A bad plan executed violently is better than a good plan executed slowly.”
Gen. George Patton
“While we are certain there are no good wars, we are not so naive as to believe that there are no necessary wars.”
Lt. Gen. Harold Moore
“Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, “I am strong!”
Joel 3:10
“Salus populi suprema lex – The safety of the people is the highest law.”
DoggoneGA
November 4th, 2009
12:26 pm
101st chairborn are out in full force I see
Heaven and Hell
November 4th, 2009
12:28 pm
I’m certainly thankful for Whiner.
@@
November 4th, 2009
12:28 pm
My response to your previous topic…
jay, It’s no surprise that you, a liberal would be excited about candidate Reed. In a previous column, you offered your support based on his desire to fight crime and his political connections!!?!!
From your previous column:
Kasim Reed, an Atlanta attorney and veteran state senator, stresses the importance of public safety in his campaign, promising to hire 750 additional police officers by the end of his four-year term. Given the city’s financial situation, that is a hugely ambitious and probably impractical goal, but Reed says he is committed to achieving it.
Trying to choose among such well-qualified candidates is a welcome chore, but at this point, I’ll cast my vote for Reed. The record of legislative consensus-building that he describes is very real. Given that some of the metro region’s biggest challenges cannot be solved without the assistance of state leaders, an Atlanta mayor with such connections would be a major asset.
How realistic can fighting crime be without the funds to do so. You either have no problem with raising taxes or running a deficit. Typical.
A conservative, who thinks things thru, however, comes to a different conclusion.
Kyle Wingfield: Reed chooses public safety as his priority…..But it’s not the issue for me in a city so cash-strapped that it can’t afford the 750 new officers Reed says he would add within four years. Those officers would cost some $58 million a year plus recruitment and training costs, a daunting figure considering Atlanta raised taxes this year by $56 million just to end furloughs and fund its pension liabilities.
Fixing the city’s finances is a prerequisite for addressing public safety and all other concerns. As big a problem as dollars and cents are, it’s a bigger problem than just that.
There is a trust gap between Atlanta’s citizens and its civil servants, not to mention between Atlanta and our state government. Both Borders and Norwood acknowledge this gap.
Both women talk about the need to enforce city code better and clean up neighborhoods wracked by mortgage fraud. Borders, worryingly, puts a bigger emphasis on eminent domain and making it easier for the city to seize such properties.
Both women talk about collecting more of the fines and other monies already owed to the city.
Both women acknowledge the need to get a handle on who does what in the city, and to make sure the work force is lean and efficient.
This is a long-standing problem in Atlanta.
Borders has the endorsement of the union for nonpublic safety workers, who will expect forbearance in return. Norwood has the support of those who lodged the complaints. In a close call, I’ll take the candidate who is more free to change the status quo. In a close call, I’ll take Norwood.
That ^^^ is common sense of which you have none.
Congratulations to the winners in yesterday’s elections.
Congratulations to the “little guy”, Hoffman, who without the benefit of party and charisma, did pretty dawg gone well. He’s a bean-counter by profession. Lawd knows….we could use more of those in Washington.
And Mr. Owens? He’s got one year in which he can prove his bona fides as a fiscal conservative. What better way to campaign against the leftists on the hill. I’m betting he’ll be pushing hard to prove his mettle. That’ll put him far right of where liberals would like HIM to be.
Since Obama has no comment to offer regarding his Af/Pak strategy, I’ll follow suit. I’ll let the pain and suffering be his. He sure hasn’t let the pain and suffering of those brave troops already in Afghanistan go to his head OR heart. Too busy addressing “THINGS” he considers crucial.
Common Sense
November 4th, 2009
12:28 pm
To Joan @ 12:22pm:
The MSM is pretty much ignoring this story from Texas so check out this article from a foreign paper:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6489418/Planned-Parenthood-leader-resigns-after-watching-abortion-ultrasound.html
By the way, have you ever watched one?
Joey
November 4th, 2009
12:29 pm
The Democrat’s-Afghan-Error began when Democrats decided that they could bring Bush down by saying over and over that the correct, the right, the necessary war was the Afghan-War. The Left Wing of our media leaped upon this assignment and began repeating that accusation at every opportunity. Jay Bookman was one of the most consistant purveyors of The-Right-War-Story.
Immediately after taking office President Obama increased the commitment of military personnel to Afghanistan just as he had promised. Now here we are.
Democrats dug themselves this pit. Jay Bookman and any Media’s-Left-Wing certainly made major contributions to the error.
You guys know so damn much and are so damn smart, maybe we should let you completely redo the health care system. Really.
Heaven and Hell
November 4th, 2009
12:30 pm
Thank God for the scroll feature.
Common Sense
November 4th, 2009
12:31 pm
To DoggoneGA:
Nope. 4th Marines.
Heaven and Hell
November 4th, 2009
12:33 pm
It’s only common sense that God expects a 100 percent success rate from every attempt at creating one in his likeness.
Mrs. Godzilla
November 4th, 2009
12:33 pm
Bring ‘em home.
@@
November 4th, 2009
12:33 pm
Oh, and Bruno?
Thanks again for your early morning “smoothical” for teacher.
(IWH)
Common Sense
November 4th, 2009
12:35 pm
To Mrs. Godzilla @ 12:33
Don’t tell us ……….. tell Obama.
DoggoneGA
November 4th, 2009
12:35 pm
“Nope. 4th Marines.”
Really? The 4th Marines are posting here today? Individually, or do they have a designated speaker?
Joan
November 4th, 2009
12:39 pm
Common sense–it pays to use some. There should be limits to a right to abort–and those limits ought to be set at a few months into it. If a woman doesn’t want a kid and doesn’t have enough sense to figure it out in the first three months, then maybe she should have to go through with it. I don’t know what is messier though–a messy abortion, or a very unloved, messed up, human being, raised without love and discipline, and doomed to continue the cycle of dependency. Certainly the pain of the latter lasts a lot longer.
@@
November 4th, 2009
12:43 pm
H&H:
My apologies for the long post. My time is limited.
When it’s not limited, I often offer short and biting quips. Those are attacked by leftists as well.
I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t.
Never try to make a liberal happy. It’s not in their DNA.
Turd Ferguson
November 4th, 2009
12:46 pm
“Im am strong, I am invincible, I am Woooman…” Helen Reddy
Mrs. Godzilla
November 4th, 2009
12:46 pm
Common Sense
I do. Weekly.
Have you?
Try it here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
Normal
November 4th, 2009
12:48 pm
Joan: ” I don’t know what is messier though–a messy abortion, or a very unloved, messed up, human being, raised without love and discipline, and doomed to continue the cycle of dependency. Certainly the pain of the latter lasts a lot longer.”
You are absolutely correct,
But it would be considered socialistic to set up foster homes and the loving environments therein, to set up opportunities for education, health care, and other cost of living funds.
Normal
November 4th, 2009
12:51 pm
Common Sense, I do too, daily. Here, White house, and the democratic party sites.
T
November 4th, 2009
12:54 pm
There was a time when Afgan was the right war. When that 6ft mass murdering towel head resided there. Now, I don’t know what we are doing there.
I find it unfortunate that we spent all those resources and lives looking for WMD’s to get OIF, when most Americans (well this one) just wanted to see Bin Laden hanged.
stands for decibels
November 4th, 2009
12:54 pm
I’m thinking George McGovern has a point…
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091103_mcgovern_get_out_of_afghanistan/?ln
A historian, McGovern said he would remind Obama that foreign powers have been trying unsuccessfully to prevail in Afghanistan “ever since Alexander the Great. Genghis Khan even made a shot at it. The British throughout the 19th century were in there several times trying to pacify the [country] and finally gave up. The Russians were there for 11 years, 1979 until 1990, they put in 100,000 crack soldiers, 25,000 of them killed … in Afghanistan, another 25,000 crippled or injured. And the Russian treasury went broke, and some of our best Soviet experts believe that’s what really led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.”
Asked how he would get out of Afghanistan if he were president, McGovern said: “I would say to the Afghan people that ‘we’ve been here for eight years, and we’ve come to the conclusion we can’t resolve your problems. You’ve got the Taliban, you may have al-Qaida, but—our soldiers have fought, died bravely—but it’s my conclusion, as president of the United States, that we can’t resolve the problems here. We’ll do what we can to help you, but we can’t do it with our military forces. As a matter of fact, while we’ve been here, the Taliban have grown stronger, and we don’t know where al-Qaida is—we think they’re in Pakistan—but having our troops in Afghanistan is not going to help that. So it’s our judgment that the best thing for us, and maybe for you, is for you to take over the handling of your own problems.”
Normal
November 4th, 2009
12:57 pm
SFD: I wish McGovern had sounded that wise when he was running for President. I’da voted for him…
stands for decibels
November 4th, 2009
12:58 pm
There should be limits to a right to abort–and those limits ought to be set at a few months into it. If a woman doesn’t want a kid and doesn’t have enough sense to figure it out in the first three months, then maybe she should have to go through with it.
You do realize that Roe v. Wade more or less establishes just those things, already, and has been law of the land since 1973, yes?
Turd Ferguson
November 4th, 2009
1:00 pm
Those afghanis dont want a civilized form of govt. Cut-throats and sell-outs all of em. Pull the troops out immediately, well after we get all the heroin, and let them fend for themselves.
Normal
November 4th, 2009
1:01 pm
T, back in’03, I told all who would listen that first put Bin Laden’s head on a pike at the rubble of the Twin Towers, then come talk to me about Iraq…nobody listened, though.
Mrs. Godzilla
November 4th, 2009
1:01 pm
Bill Moyers: We Can’t Afford to Escalate the War in Afghanistan
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/143652/bill_moyers%3A_we_can%27t_afford_to_escalate_the_war_in_afghanistan/
mm
November 4th, 2009
1:02 pm
@@,
Us libs are always happy. It’s you wingnut dittoheads that are always whining.
I think the writing is on the wall for you far right teabaggers. Your candidate in NY was defeated. America will not tolerate the teabaggers.
PULL THE TROOPS!!!!!!!
AmVet
November 4th, 2009
1:05 pm
BHO, STOP THESE USELESS WARS NOW.
Though the patriots at Haliburton and KBR are profiting enormously, these stone-age people are not worth one more American life.
Not one.
National security, my a$$…
Turd Ferguson
November 4th, 2009
1:08 pm
Bin Laden is probably dead…the govt just doesnt want to announce it. Having troops in Iraq/Afghanistan puts us on Iran’s East and West borders. Ya know, just in case.
BHO
November 4th, 2009
1:10 pm
AmVet,
I can’t bring the Troops home. Haliburton and KBR would be forced to lay off their workers and I’d be forced to cut a stimulas package for them because they are too big to fail. How could I get re-elected if I did that? No, I’ll send more, that’s what I’ll do. What would George do?
AmVet
November 4th, 2009
1:12 pm
I personally hope this costs the GOP suckup Obama the White House.
We libs have been saying the same thing for years. STOP THE WARs. Bush was a lying scumbag and a deadly fool for embroiling us in them. This is widely known.
But now the transparent, Party First chicken-conned are suddenly anti-Afghanistan!???
And ONLY because there is no longer a Republican CiC. That is the only reason.
Man, do you guys seriously suck. And have for a long time…
Mrs. Godzilla
November 4th, 2009
1:15 pm
Depends on which george….
George of the Jungle would hit the tree.
George Clooney would do another movie.
George Burns would light up a stogie.
George Bush would outsource the choice to Dick.
George Allen would mumble macaca.
George Forman would grill a burger.
Turd Ferguson
November 4th, 2009
1:19 pm
Ms G…what would Boy George do?
Turd Ferguson
November 4th, 2009
1:20 pm
AmVet, you need to buy some stock and then sit back for a nice relaxing ride on the Gravy-Train.
Normal
November 4th, 2009
1:24 pm
I agree! Bring our troops home now!
Bosch
November 4th, 2009
1:24 pm
Turd,
“what would Boy George do?”
Shoot his arm full of heroin that you mentioned earlier.
Bosch
November 4th, 2009
1:25 pm
Oh, and yeah, bring the troops home.
AmVet
November 4th, 2009
1:25 pm
Normal,
November 1972, I was 17 years old and in boot camp. And as I was considered on active duty the otherwise 18 year old age limit to vote was removed.
And let me tell you brother, there was no way in hell I would have voted for Tricky Dick.
Please understand, I do not fault you or your choice.
You were older and likely wiser than me, but I just felt compelled to vote for McGovern.
And of course had the last laugh when 11 months later that repulsive criminal Agnew left town. And less than ten months after that, Nixon left with his tail between his legs.
Between that gang, Ronnie, Newtie and Georgie, I’m fairly amazed that anybody still trusts in that party.
Turd, given what just happened, you’re a braver (more gullible?) man than me trusting those criminals on Wall Street with your money.
I totally lucked out and avoided almost all of the fallout/theivery from last year.
I’m in, of course, but heavy into cash, etc at this point in my life…
Mrs. Godzilla
November 4th, 2009
1:28 pm
Boy George would fix his makeup.
Hi Bosch
All well with you?
Common Sense
November 4th, 2009
1:30 pm
To Mrs. Godzilla, et al:
Then why ain’t he listening to you ………. the people who elected him?
To DoggoneGA:
That was my old unit knucklehead …… and did you previously mean the “entire” 101st at your 12:26?
Debate is better than frivolity.
PentaGone
November 4th, 2009
1:30 pm
We could use F-22’s for cloud seeding during droughts and for pinpoint high speed H1N1 vaccine deliveries. The Generals can retire to their armchairs with full pensions and the war machine will keep on producing. They’ll just be fighting different enemies. It’s a win-win.
Bosch
November 4th, 2009
1:35 pm
Mrs. G.,
Hi! Yeah, all is well – except for bronchitis. I just got back from the doctor, so I should be well soon. Thanks for asking.
As to the other event last week – we are all doing well with that too.
Normal
November 4th, 2009
1:36 pm
AmVet, in ‘72, I was out of the Navy (went back in ‘75), angry as hades and a member of Viet Nam Veterans Against The War. Remember the Miami Republican Convention? Anyway, I voted for Nixon the first time (’68) on his promise to end the war. I was going to vote for McGovern, but toward the end of the campaign, he came off to me as flip flopping his views of the war. Though I regret my decision now, I didn’t vote that cycle. I really felt betrayed by both parties then.
To tell you the truth, I’m feeling like that again. I voted for President Obama because he said he would pull our troops out. I won’t vote for him again if he does not and I won’t care what he does afterward…but I hold a grudge.
Turd Ferguson
November 4th, 2009
1:38 pm
The only thing wrong Richard Millhouse Nixon did, or as he was refered too Tricky Dick, was getting caught.
Mrs. Godzilla
November 4th, 2009
1:41 pm
Common Sense
I suspect the reason he has yet to do as I ask is that he wants to rely on those with greater knowledge, wisdom and experience than myself.
Can’t blame him for that.
That’s just common sense.
Mrs. Godzilla
November 4th, 2009
1:44 pm
Bosch
Best cure for the bronchitis….trust me….a week on a hot sandy beach
and some good sex. (Really!)
Normal
November 4th, 2009
1:49 pm
MRS G, I have to disagree…I can’t see how you can have sex on a hot sandy beach…too gritty and the chance of being arrested. Plus, in my case, people would be trying to drag me back into the ocean thinking I was a beached Baluga…
Mrs. Godzilla
November 4th, 2009
1:52 pm
Normal
I should have been more specific…true sandy parts are a drag.
Nice room on a hot beach…….better?
stands for decibels
November 4th, 2009
1:53 pm
The MSM is pretty much ignoring this story from Texas so check out this article from a foreign paper
coupla things:
1) you hardly have to go to a “foreign paper” to find coverage: Fox has been hyping it (their headline reads “Planned Parenthood Director Quits After Watching Abortion on Ultrasound” – making it sound as if the national director had quit!) and I found about a hundred stories on google; and
2) While I can see the “dog bites man” aspect to a story like this, given that Bryan, TX is a rather modest-sized city and this PPA center is but one of 850 around the country, just how much national attention should something like this be expected to receive?
Normal
November 4th, 2009
1:53 pm
Oh, now I get it…
jconservative
November 4th, 2009
1:57 pm
The Foreign Minister of Poland was on Morning Joe this AM. He indicated that they still had in excess of 2500 troops in Afghanistan & they were set in place to defend a population of about 1 million. He flat out said that he is expecting that Afghanistan forces could be trained to defend the country in a couple of years & Poland would be looking to withdraw its troops on that timetable.
And when asked he indicated support for the new system of anti-missile defense the Pentagon is now planning to deploy. He said it had more target flexibility than the previous system.
DoggoneGA
November 4th, 2009
2:03 pm
“did you previously mean the “entire” 101st at your 12:26? ”
Absolutely. the 101st CHAIRborn varies in size from day to day, but whatever day they show up it’s always the ENTIRE unit.
AmVet
November 4th, 2009
2:18 pm
Normal,
You are the man. A class act and good guy here.
And once again, I salute you.
The Truth Hurts
November 4th, 2009
2:38 pm
To Joan at 12:39:
You didn’t answer my question. Have you ever watched one? The point being ……. the head of the clinic finally did and it totally changed her mind.
To Mrs. Godzilla @ 1:41:
Then why keep asking him to get out? Leave it to those who know more.
To DoggoneGA @ 2:03:
Thanks for the clarification. That makes it about 20,000 then …. the size of an average division.
P.S. Do you think the Dogs should wear black jock straps for the Tennessee Tech game?
Common Sense
November 4th, 2009
2:39 pm
Sorry. The above post was from “Common Sense”. I am on my daughter’s computer and it picked up her handle.
RGB
November 4th, 2009
6:31 pm
“I voted for President Obama because he said he would pull our troops out.”
Really? Do you ever listen to what Obama says or did you just hear “hope and change” and said to yourself: “Self, I’m pullin’ that lever for Obama.”
Obama termed the war in Afghanistan “a war of necessity”, scolded Bush for fighting the wrong war (Iraq), berated Bush for not capturing bin Laden, and declared his full support for prosecuting the war in Afghanistan.
Read his lips from Real Clear Politics:
“This is not a war of choice,” Barack Obama told the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Aug. 17. “This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9-11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al-Qaida would plot to kill more Americans. So this is not only a war worth fighting. This is fundamental to the defense of our people.”
Perhaps you should be more careful before you vote.
Now, Obama is risking the lives of U.S. troops by not providing the resources the General McChrystal requested. Obama handpicked McChrystal, selected the war plan, and now will not or cannot make a decision.
It’s Obama voting “present” all over again.
What does he have against our troops?
Boots
November 4th, 2009
6:59 pm
Cheney complained that Obama was “dithering” regarding Afghanistan. Would to God Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeldt had “dithered” — had gone for a walk to think things through — before commiting American troops to Iraq and Afghanistan.
These wars are cesspools — a quadmire — and quicksand where our troops are exposed as they try to fight a conventional conflint with an unconventional enemy. It’s doomed.
Furthermore, if we’re there one week, one year or fifty years — when we leave it will implode into regional, ethnic, religious and tribal factions just like its been from 5000 years.
Get our troops out — leaving a few hundred “special ops” to go after Bin Laden and Taliban leaders.
History will prove that the Bush decision to go into Iraq and their handling of the search for Bin Laden were a disaster!
md
November 4th, 2009
11:19 pm
For Joan:
There are a lot of troubled, mixed up people in this world that had loving parents. So your remedy is to whack them all? If they are unloved and unwanted its easier to just kill them?? You may want to re think your views on life.
English Bloke
November 5th, 2009
2:05 am
Hey Common Sense, don’t get on the Brits case, ask where are the German, French, Spanish and Italian Nato troops eh? Not in Helmand province doing the dirty work I can tell you.
PS, you ‘Rebels’ cheated in that war, throwing our Tea supplies into in Boston Harbour was a dirty mean underhand trick.
Drifter
November 5th, 2009
6:01 am
It’s obvious no one is going to fix that dump of a country. Russia got bogged down there and now we didn’t learn anything from their experience there (or our experience in Vietnam). You can’t occupy a country indefinitely and expect anything but resentment and rebellion. It’s past time to bring our troops home.
Morgan-LynnGriggs Lamberth
November 5th, 2009
7:41 am
If the Afghani security forces can show that they can defend the people from violence and crime, then we have hope to defeat the Taliban. We can help with stabilizing the country- nation building. And we could make appeal to the ninety per cent of the Taliban who only want jobs.
Wee must keep terrorists from taking over Pakistan and keep from killing or maiming the civilians there!
I’m with Obama-Biden-Gates!
classychick
November 5th, 2009
10:22 am
I don`t know what the answer is for Aghanistan.But i 100% support every soldier out there as they are doing what they are told.How about sending all those neds that think they are so brave cos they are carring a knife, to the frontline?that would solve our over crowding in jails plus it would get them off our streets.Lets see if they are so brave when they face the Taliban
Hard Right Hook
November 5th, 2009
1:00 pm
English Bloke
November 5th, 2009
2:05 am
“Hey Common Sense, don’t get on the Brits case, ask where are the German, French, Spanish and Italian Nato troops eh? Not in Helmand province doing the dirty work I can tell you.”
Like George Patton said, “I’d rather have a German Division in front of me that have a French Division behind me.”
Archie1954
November 5th, 2009
2:02 pm
As difficult as it is too put this tragedy in perspective, one should remember that the job of these five in Afghanistan was to kill Afghanis. that is what they were trained for. They are after all hired killers and they are good at it if the news stories about Afghanistan are true. So why would the police officer not do his duty to his fellow Afghanis and stop these men from ever killing another of his fellow Afghanis?