Taliban capture US base in Afghanistan

[irishspirit]

Taliban militants have claimed that they have driven US troops out of a military outpost in Afghanistan's northeastern Kunar Province.


They also said that the Americans fled the military outpost in Kunar's Marawara district in helicopters on Monday.

A senior Taliban commander said the group is now in full control of the district where the outpost is located.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/146221.html

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I really struggle to believe this story!

[Fredkc]

Irish....
it's a slippery slope!
Once you start believing the Taliban, what's next?
You wind up believing the US military on Afghanistan as well, and then you're really blinkered.
Fred

[Swami]

Killing each Taliban soldier costs $50 Million

The Pentagon will not tell the public what it costs to locate, target and kill a single Taliban soldier because the price-tag is so scandalously high that it makes the Taliban appear to be Super-Soldiers. As set out in this article, the estimated cost to kill each Taliban is as high as $100 million, with a conservative estimate being $50 million. A public discussion should be taking place in the United States regarding whether the Taliban have become too expensive an enemy to defeat.

http://kabulpress.org/my/spip.php?article32304

[Fredkc]

The Pentagon will not tell the public what it costs to locate, target and kill a single Taliban soldier because the price-tag is so scandalously high that it makes the Taliban appear to be Super-Soldiers.

They also don't like to talk about the "Remote Control Killing" they do, and what that costs the US either.

I will tell you what the 'official score' was for the year 2009:
'Terrorists' Confirmed kills: 5
Bystanders, including many women and children: 700

Predators are now prominent in military recruiting commercials. "Look at the neat toys you'll get to play with!"

No mention of their "Glorious" track record, though.

I have absolutely no idea how anyone can find this acceptable.
We passed "Support our troops!" a long time ago.
You can be fairly certain that for each of those 700 dead, we have probably created 1-3 new terrorists. After all, how would you react?

The only thing that seems certain is, should this continue, and the US see a terrorist nuclear attack, the first reaction of the complacent will be,
"Why do they hate us?"

Fred

[Strat]

I wouldn't be surprised. It happened to the Brits and the Russians.

I'm reading a book on Afghanistan's troubled history. It's fascinating how the big players of the future, inadvertently echo the big players of the past, with out realizing it. It's also eerie how it applies today.

"I have no doubt you will take Candahar and Caubul and set up Shuja; but for maintaining him in a poor, cold, strong and remote country, among a turbulent people like the Afghans, I own it seems to me to be hopeless... I never knew a close alliance between a civilised and an uncivilised state that did not end in mutual hatred in three years." - Mounstuart Elphinstone 1838