Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The new "Friendly Fire"?
Another day, another soldier dies at the hands of one of our "loyal Afghan allies". Yesterday it was two British soldiers, today it is an American soldier.
A US soldier was killed at an Afghan police checkpoint on Monday in the latest “insider attack” by local security forces, a US military official said.And how many more will die before we achieve the same result in the future that we can get by pulling out now?
The assault in eastern Afghanistan was the second shooting incident of the day involving Afghans opening fire on their NATO-led allies, with two British soldiers shot dead in the southern province of Helmand. The attacks brought the death toll to 16 this year for such incidents.
The two British troops were killed when an Afghan soldier opened fire at the entrance gate to British headquarters in Lashkar Gah city. The attacker was shot dead by coalition forces and another British soldier was severely wounded...
More than one in six of the 91 foreign soldiers to have died in the country in 2012 have been killed in so-called “green-on-blue” attacks by Afghan security troops, and the growing problem has commanders worried about the effect on the war-effort.
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As in Vietnam and Iraq, we here in the U. S. are not satisfied just to lose a war; we want to punish our soldiers for losing it by making more of them die absurdly.
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