Hello… It’s War…..
By now everyone is aware who was paying attention, that around 1000 or so Afghan criminals, and many of them Taliban, were busted out of an Afghan prison.
I’m trying to imagine that happening in any civilized country. In Britain, or France, or the U.S., and I can’t. What the Hell is the matter that they can’t provide adequate security to keep 1100 dangerous people locked up? The word is that four of our Marines were killed in the attack, which mostly killed Afghani police and prison guards.
Come on. Some 350 to 400 Taliban in there and no one thought there wouldn’t be an attack on the prison to free them? See, this is the same problem we’re having in Iraq and Pakistan. We train them to our more exacting standards, bring them up to snuff on the latest police tactics and advanced equipment, and what happens? Half of them turn out to be enemies that we’ve just trained to attack and defeat us and the other half let it go in one ear and out the other.
These people work well with each other. They do not work well with us. Why not? Because we aren’t Muslims, we’re invaders. All they want from us is what they can stuff into their pockets, and all they want to give us is the barest minimum they can get away with and still be allowed to hang out and stuff their pockets. These people have only tribal loyalties. They’ll never have even the loyalty of an employee to an employer and they’ll stab us in the backs at every opportunity.
The only way to deal with any of these countries is to either bomb them into oblivion or leave. If we want Osama, then ignore the Paki governments ineffectual protests and bomb the tribes out of existence until we’ve killed all the Taliban, all the Al Qaeda there, and all the supportive tribes. Same for Afghanistan and Iraq. Blow up entire cities and reduce them to charred rubble and ashes with not so much as a cockroach left alive, or else stop screwing around at the cost of American lives, and leave.
If we had taken no prisoners, there would not have been 350-400 Taliban in a prison, waiting to be freed. They would all be safely dead and buried.
Putting troops on the ground in any of those countries is just throwing our boys lives away. Fighting from building to building and street to street is plain stupid. We can wipe them out by the thousands simply by firebombing them and that’s what we should be doing if we want to win at the least cost in lives and fortune. It’s WAR! Act like it or go home.