Taliban Fighters Capture Kunduz City as Afghan Forces Retreat

I mean my experience obviously is not the same as everyone's, but there is no denying it was a fairly stable place in 2010-11.

Places we used to get shot every time we rolled through turned into nap time where I could roll out my mat and take a nap in the back seat. We had our occasional extended firefight late in my deployment, but you could obviously tell that they had bad enough.

 

And that timeline matched the height of the Afghan surge.

 

You know I remember ARVN doing the same. It didn't stop us from doing our job. Then again the ROE's were a little different than what Oblamer imposes on the troops today.

 

http://mediaroots.org/opium-what-afghanistan-is-really-about/

 

The surge isn't the issue. The issue is leaving after a short period of time. Over 75% of casualties in Afghanistan happened after the surge, so we flooded the place with US troops, dying by the hundreds in the process, then packed up our (*)(*)(*)(*) and left.

Bring the troops home. The troops didn't want to come home. The leadership knew it'd be a mistake to leave.

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We basically pretended the Afghans aren't there. We ignored them and they just kind of stayed out of our way.

 

And tell me one more time why we should even be there at all again?

 

The illegal heroin trade.

 

Unless you've got read comprehension deficit, the answer to your question has been answered repeatedly. Afghanistan is the center of the Golden Triangle.

 

And what does that have to do with us? You still aren't answering my question. They produce Cocaine down in Columbia and we do not have an army down there stopping them presently do we? You're just making excuses for more unnecessary war for the military complex.

 

And Columbia with their Cocaine production? How come we aren't down there with an army? And by the way, I thought we went to Afghanistan to get Bin Laden? When did the mission change?

This whole Afghanistan thing has been the biggest con of the century, right behind the criminal war of Iraq.

 

The cocaine army is in Panama. Where coca leaves are processed. Central American governments are in on it as is the Mexican government. Besides they make more money on Meth these days than coke. The heroin has never been cheaper or more plentiful , that should tell you what you need to know,

 

Who's Cocaine army?

 

Oh you know, the one that invented crack and brought to the streets of LA, NY ...

 

Sounds like some general's gonna be onna hot seat...

Afghan president orders investigation into fall of Kunduz
Oct 10,`15 -- Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has appointed a team of investigators to look into the circumstances leading to the Taliban's brief capture of the northern city of Kunduz as well as a U.S. airstrike that destroyed a hospital and killed at least 22 people there, his office said Saturday.

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Portraits of some of the victims in Kunduz hospital bombing
Oct 10,`15 -- On Oct. 3, a U.S. AC-130 gunship - at the request of Afghan ground forces fighting the Taliban, according to the American commander in Afghanistan Gen. John F. Campbell - mistakenly bombed a trauma hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, killing at least 10 patients and a dozen Afghan staffers. Many more were wounded, and many remain missing in the wreckage of the now-abandoned hospital. The aid group's international staff members have been accounted for. President Barack Obama apologized and the U.S. military is investigating. Family and friends of some of the victims spoke with The Associated Press. Here are their stories: