Monday, February 06, 2012

The early retirement of Lt Col Davis

Lt Col Davis was assigned to the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force and travelled all over Shitholeistan. Lt Col Davis is also an honest man and has written an essay in the Armed Forces Journal about what he saw.
I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course of 12 months, I covered more than 9,000 miles and talked, traveled and patrolled with troops in Kandahar, Kunar, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, Kunduz, Balkh, Nangarhar and other provinces.

What I saw bore no resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders about conditions on the ground.

Entering this deployment, I was sincerely hoping to learn that the claims were true: that conditions in Afghanistan were improving, that the local government and military were progressing toward self-sufficiency. I did not need to witness dramatic improvements to be reassured, but merely hoped to see evidence of positive trends, to see companies or battalions produce even minimal but sustainable progress.

Instead, I witnessed the absence of success on virtually every level.
Lt Col Davis' essay was condensed from an 82 page report he delivered following this tour (his second in Shitholeistan). After several examples of of bad the situation is, he raises this important point.
How many more men must die in support of a mission that is not succeeding and behind an array of more than seven years of optimistic statements by U.S. senior leaders in Afghanistan? No one expects our leaders to always have a successful plan. But we do expect — and the men who do the living, fighting and dying deserve — to have our leaders tell us the truth about what’s going on.

Comments:
He's said things like this before I think. This may be his undoing.
 
So what are they going to do to him, One Fly? Send him to Afghanistan?

- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
 
Maybe he wants to get out or is lobbying for a better job when Iran ramps up. I see where they started another "investigation".
 
Or maybe he hopes this is enough to make them fire him so he isn't around when Iran heats up. 'Cause Iran will be like Iraq+Afghanistan on crack.

About the only reason I can think of that I'm gonna vote for Obama in November is that he's too smart to invade Iran. The GOP morons, on the other hand, are drooling at the chance to get involved in yet another unwinnable war...

- Badtux the WTF Penguin
 

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