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U.S. military suspends joint patrols with Afghans
(CBS News) The strategy for getting U.S. forces out of Afghanistan depends on training Afghan soldiers and police to protect the country themselves, but on Monday the U.S. military suspended most joint field operations with Afghan forces because so many Americans are being killed by the men they are training.
Afghan government troops — our allies — have turned their guns on NATO forces 36 times this year, killing 51, most of them Americans. That is more attacks than the last two years combined.
The order effectively suspends “until further notice” most of the operations which U.S. and Afghan troops conduct side by side. At higher headquarters, Afghans and Americans will still work together, but in the field small unit operations putting Afghan soldiers alongside Americans — the guts of the U.S. strategy to turn the fighting over to Afghans — will be suspended unless an exception is granted by a commanding general.
The order was issued after a long weekend in which four American and two British troops were killed by so-called “insider attacks” — Afghans turning their guns on their supposed allies.
h/t Tuesday
Chuck U Farley
September 18th, 2012
Can someone please clue me in as to why we are still in Afghanistan? And why are we sacrificing the best of us to what end?
….I mean, other than Obysmal’s re-election and the further erosion of the military.
“A military force that does not have a clear mission is doomed to failure” ~ Farley’s Law
Unneutral
September 18th, 2012
When properly used, there are significant advantages to possessing nuclear power.
serfer62
September 18th, 2012
What happens to these killers?
StrangernFiction
September 18th, 2012
Can someone please clue me in as to why we are still in Afghanistan?
Madness
Organized chaos
September 18th, 2012
It’s about fucking time to get out of there instead of repeatedly trying to do what the Russians failed at.
My son hit two anti-tank mines – IED’s in Iraq while clearing routes in a Husky. After he got home he went to Afghanistan for a total waste of time. He hates the Army now.
Fuck You 0bama !
Alfa06
September 18th, 2012
But they’re so much fun…and so intelligent. If you need mud hut guys for overwatch…look no further, Hamdi is your guy!
Chuck U Farley
September 18th, 2012
Bless you Oc. Been there, done that.
Chuck U Farley
September 18th, 2012
..and it ain’t the Army’s fault. It’s the shitstains in charge.
Chuck U Farley
September 18th, 2012
Can someone please clue me in as to why we are still in Afghanistan?
Madness
No, I can excuse madness. This shit is premeditated.
Death to goat-humpers!
Ricky
September 18th, 2012
Since it seems that almost every single country on the planet hates the U.S…
then someone needs to explain why we should care if we offend them?
I agree with with the comments posted. pull all Americans out..and then bomb those people off the Map completely..no such thing as an innocent.. this is supposed to be a war, then lets not hold back. Let these bastards really have it!
Send in the B-2′s The B-52′s and anything else we can cram down their throats.
Making apologies is just bad policy..we need to strike fear into them for what they’ve done!
afterwards, leave it like it is..no money.. no aid..let them pick up the pieces like we had to do with the twin towers!
Dumbplumber
September 18th, 2012
Or Seig Hiel, the beatings will continue until morale improves. I don’t often drink beer while killing terrorists, but when I do I drink Dos Equies.
Chuck U Farley
September 18th, 2012
There have been more soldiers slaughtered under Obysmal than under Bush in Afghanistan, just so Obysmal can bask in the glow that he personally killed a Musloid ‘freedom fighter’ (according to the definition of Michael Bovine Moore).
Where is the outrage on the Left?
….crickets….
Organized chaos
September 18th, 2012
@Chuck U Farley
It’s the fucked up ROE and the trickle down bullshit from 0bama and company that changed my son’s opinion of the Army. He re-upped for Afghanistan even after I advised him to get out until we get a Commander in Chief.
At least he had a real job in Iraq. It’s total bullshit what they are doing in Afghanistan, completely insane, waste of time and lives, and leaving a bad taste in the mouths of our soldiers.
All my kids are still patriots and are voting against that traitor.
Chuck U Farley
September 18th, 2012
“No one likes us-I don’t know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
But all around, even our old friends put us down
Let’s drop the big one and see what happens
We give them money-but are they grateful?
No, they’re spiteful and they’re hateful
They don’t respect us-so let’s surprise them
We’ll drop the big one and pulverize them
Asia’s crowded and Europe’s too old
Africa is far too hot
And Canada’s too cold
And South America stole our name
Let’s drop the big one
There’ll be no one left to blame us
We’ll save Australia
Don’t wanna hurt no kangaroo
We’ll build an All American amusement park there
They got surfin’, too
Boom goes London and boom Paree
More room for you and more room for me
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town
Oh, how peaceful it will be
We’ll set everybody free
You’ll wear a Japanese kimono
And there’ll be Italian shoes for me
They all hate us anyhow
So let’s drop the big one now
Let’s drop the big one now”
Apologies to apologist Randy Newman
I realize it ain’t gonna happen. We will continue to apologize and appease until we are under Sharia Law or Chinese rule…considering the demographics, it is inevitable.
Phuck ‘em. It’s time to draw the line people. Either gird your loins, or get the phuck out of the way.
Corona
September 18th, 2012
Nuke the goats, camels, etc. It’ll drive them bat shit crazy.
Hotlanta Mike
September 18th, 2012
Where are Code Stink and Cindy Sheehan? I guess when it’s a dem putting troops in harms way, there’s nothing to protest.
old_oaks
September 18th, 2012
We couldn’t “vet” a fcuking president?
You think we’re going to “vet” a fcuking goat humper?
Oh, wait, sorry, he’s our president!
H8n da bummer
September 19th, 2012
U.S. military suspends joint patrols with Afghans… which of course, offends muslins/insult izlom… and you know the rest
prolly be a tragic increase in the deaths of our boys, now
grayscape
September 19th, 2012
Musloids in disguise just infiltrated a base and destroyed 6 aircraft and killed a squadron CO. I don’t think this has ever happened before…at least since WW2. No mention in the media of course.
Omusloid has nothing to say as usual….
Moe Tom
September 19th, 2012
We have the worst Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces since. Jimmy Carter? Name another. This guy should be impeached and tried for treason. And exiled, with his whole entourage, to Elba or Alkatraz, or even Ireland.
grayscape
September 19th, 2012
Here’s the link. This is one of the worst attacks in my memory – having served since 1984 in Bosnia, Somalia and Iraq:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/military/military-two-marines-assigned-to-miramar-headquartered-unit-killed-in/article_0d79f9fe-9cfe-592e-9c04-5048a3845c21.html
Tuesday
September 19th, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUp3vhMSfZE
I’d like to see Captain Barry O’Queeg’s balls in MY hands! I’d like to see Captain Barry O’Queeg placed march his little body into the midst of the ‘friendly Afghanistans’ he apparently thinks is such a good idea. I’d like…well, you know what I’d like.
Tuesday
September 19th, 2012
Scratch out the word ‘placed’ for me Cardigan. I’m so mad! >:(
Bob M.
September 19th, 2012
GREAT plan! Welcome to 2004!
MaryfromMarin
September 19th, 2012
This has happened 36 times in less than nine months, on top of happening nearly that many times over the last two years. So, around 70 times in two and a half years.
70 TIMES in 33 MONTHS? This should have been stopped long, long ago. How long does it take to see a pattern, really?
Pickled Liver
September 19th, 2012
New rules of engagement: If it looks like a goat humper, shoot it! After you shoot it – and it moves – shoot it again! Let no armed goat humpers get within a 50 yard radius. If he/she does – shoot them! Get the picture?
Death to Islam!
Stranded in Sonoma
September 19th, 2012
N.U.K.E.T.H.E.M.
Unruly Refugee
September 19th, 2012
@grayscape
thanks for the link. Copied from the link:
“The Pentagon said in a terse statement that Lt. Col. Christopher K. Raible, 40, of Huntingdon, Pa., and Sgt. Bradley W. Atwell, 27, of Kokomo, Ind., died in the Friday attack.
Raible was the commander officer of a Harrier squadron.
The two were among eight troops killed over the last three days.
He and Atwell died when Camp Bastion in the Helmand province came under attack by insurgents.
Officials said the attacking insurgents wore U.S. Army uniforms when they assaulted the base, killing the two Marines, wounding nine other people and destroying six Harrier fighter jets.”
They wore U.S. Army uniforms. They wore U.S. Army uniforms!
The only other thing I have to say is Rest in Peace and God Bless you for paying the highest price for your service to your country Lt. Col. Christopher K. Raible and Sgt. Bradley W. Atwell. May the Good Lord Bless and Comfort your families and look after them with divine protection.
dba_vagbond_trader
September 19th, 2012
Shades of endgame Vietnam. Win hearts and minds schemes,hand off to a duplicitous ally.
The only logical reason Hussein has prolongued this war is to degrade our military.
Sigsig94
September 19th, 2012
OC – I tried talking my daughter out of re-upping as her unit is scheduled to return to ShitCanistan early next year. She just extended her contract for the deployment instead of re-enlisting but we still want her the hell out.
The ROE are total BS and our endgame – there is no endgame. No plan, no goals, no nothing but politics and lying BS. Our leaders didn’t learn from the Russians and the Brits why this part of the world is known as the “graveyard of empires.” Get our people out for once and for all. Let them fight each other over the rubble.
Billy Fuster
September 19th, 2012
@OC: “Trickle-down bullshit”. Excellent phrase, but it’s now a landslide…
finai
September 19th, 2012
UNOCAL oil company
Racist
September 19th, 2012
Bout damn Time!!! What was that definition of insanity again? Oh Yeah, continuing to arm muzloids in the presence of our soldiers who have been told to trust them and not hurt them, and while you’re at it train them to kill us! Only problem is WE’re the insane ones, because we keep allowing The Obama to get away with intentionally using our troops as target practice for his muzloid brothers’ hood!
ThisObamaNation
September 19th, 2012
I hope this goes viral throughout the Muslim world.
“Ann Barnhardt Bookmarks the Koran with Bacon then Burns it. ”
http://yourdaddy.net/2011/04/0…
I love it when they set their own hair of fire and run around in circles yelling Allah Akbar.
I think Allah Akbar is Arabic for “I’m an asshole.”
muddjuice (Absolutist)
September 19th, 2012
Get out and let them kill each other. Why are we trying to stop them anymore? They will NEVER be at peace until Christ returns.
Let them slaughter one another and send nothing to them. No troops, no money, no food, no aid.
I can’t believe 9/11 didn’t solidify that SOP….
Livin on Winchell-Mahoney Time
September 20th, 2012
@Sigsig94
On behalf of Organized chaos, I hope we pull out of there by the time the votes are counted in November.
Best wishes for your daughter.
Livin on Winchell-Mahoney Time
September 20th, 2012
@Billy Fuster
Thanks, it sure it a landslide.