"A US military spokeswoman, Lieutenant Commander Christine Sidenstricker, said the clinic’s doctor gave US troops permission to fire on the clinic. After the battle, Afghan and US forces met with villagers and discussed rebuilding the clinic, a US summary of the meeting said"
I'm sorry, readers and world; I know the Muslims are barbaric, but THERE IS NO DOCTOR in the WORLD that would AUTHORIZE the DESTRUCTION of HIS OWN CLINIC!!!
Then meet with him and the villagers and tell them we will rebuild it?
Puh-leeze, AmeriKan MSM, do you REALLY THINK we are THAT 'TOO-PID out here!!!!?????
Btw, ATTACKING a HOSPITAL no matter what the reason is a WAR CRIME!!!!!!!
"July and August deadliest of Afghan war for US; 44 troops died this month Pentagon unveils new strategy" by Jason Straziuso, Associated Press | August 28, 2009
KABUL - .... A US military spokeswoman, Lieutenant Commander Christine Sidenstricker, said the clinic’s doctor gave US troops permission to fire on the clinic. After the battle, Afghan and US forces met with villagers and discussed rebuilding the clinic, a US summary of the meeting said....
“After ensuring the clinic was cleared of civilians, an AH-64
Troops called in an airstrike from US forces, said Hamidullah Zhwak, the governor’s spokesman. Fighting between some 20 militants and Afghan and US forces lasted about five hours, and 12 Taliban were killed, he said....
A five-hour battle, huh?
The fighting began after a wounded Taliban commander sought treatment at a clinic in the Sar Hawza district of Paktika. Afghan forces went to the center and got in a firefight with militants. US forces later provided backup.
Isn't the DOCTOR'S OATH DO NO HARM?
Reports of the militant death toll from Wednesday’s firefight varied widely. The spokesman for the governor of Paktika Province said 12 militants died, while police said two were killed. It wasn’t clear why the tolls differed.
US and Afghan forces battled Taliban militants at a medical center in eastern Afghanistan after a Taliban commander sought treatment there, and a US helicopter gunship fired on the clinic after militants put up resistance.
I'm SO SICK of the BS put out by the AmeriKan MSM!
Meanwhile.... a roadside bomb and gunfire attack killed a US service member in southern Afghanistan yesterday, a death that pushed August into a tie with July as the deadliest months of the eight-year war. The death brought to 44 the number of US troops who have died in Afghanistan this month with four days left in August....
Not worthy of front page news with Kennedy dead.
The top US commander in Afghanistan released his new counterinsurgency strategy yesterday, telling troops that the supply of militants is “effectively endless’’ and that US and NATO forces need to see the country through the eyes of its villagers.
Yeah, right, general!
Yup, ENDLESS SUPPLY of "insurgents" for an ENDLESS WAR, huh?
And if you want to SEE through the EYES of VILLAGERS you can LOOK at their FAMILY GRAVES and THEN LEAVE the COUNTRY, 'kay?!!!!
Related: Moody Mullen
Yeah, the LAST EIGHT YEARS have ALL BEEN for NOTHING, America!!!!!!
General Stanley McChrystal said troops “must change the way that we think, act, and operate.’’
ABOUT FACE! Forward, harch!
McChrystal hopes to install a new approach to counterinsurgency where troops will make the safety of villagers the top priority, above killing an endless supply of militants.
I would think that means NO MORE AIR RAIDS, right?
Who are these "militants, " anyway?
Oh, they are the PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE, huh?
"Something of a catchall term for loosely affiliated insurgents without a singular command structure. Often, the Afghan government favors the phrase 'enemies of the state' (New York Times July 24, 2007)."
"The Taliban is growing and creating new alliances not because its sectarian religious practices have become popular, but because it is the only available umbrella for national liberation," says Pakistani historian and political commentator Tariq Ali. "As the British and the Soviets discovered to their cost in the preceding two centuries, Afghans never like being occupied."
Also see: Afghanistan's Other Government
And today, readers?
"More and more, people here look back to the era of harsh Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, describing it as a time of security and peace."
Oh, oh, oh!!!! I'm so offended by the AmeriKan MSM and its bullshit!
Also see: How I Came to Love the Veil
Now I know that is Afghanistan, but we are talking about an artificial border drawn by the British who NEVER ASKED the PASHTUNS what THEY THOUGHT!!!!!!!
Besides,
"The U.S. government was well aware of the Taliban's reactionary program, yet it chose to back their rise to power in the mid-1990s. The creation of the Taliban was "actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA," according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. "The United States encouraged Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Taliban, certainly right up to their advance on Kabul," adds respected journalist Ahmed Rashid. When the Taliban took power, State Department spokesperson Glyn Davies said that he saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's plans to impose strict Islamic law, and Senator Hank Brown, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia, welcomed the new regime: "The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at last seems capable of developing a new government in Afghanistan." "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis. There will be Aramco [the consortium of oil companies that controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that," said another U.S. diplomat in 1997."
The TALIBAN was established under U.S. AUSPICES, huh?
We can "LIVE WITH THAT?"
Well, I SURE CAN as long as the KILLING STOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“An insurgency cannot be defeated by attrition; its supply of fighters, and even leadership, is effectively endless,’’ the new guidelines said.
When US and NATO troops battle a group of 10 militants and kill two of them, the relatives of the two dead insurgents will want revenge and will probably join the insurgency, the guidelines say, spelling out the formula: “10 minus 2 equals 20 (or more) rather than 8.’’
What does a MINUS 12 do (see above attack on hospital).
“This is part of the reason why eight years of individually successful kinetic actions have resulted in more violence,’’ McChrystal said.
Can you say VIETNAM, general?
He called on troops to think of how they would expect a foreign army to operate in their home countries, “among your families and your children, and act accordingly’’ to try to win over the Afghan population.
Ummmm, general, WE WOULD NOT WANT THEM HERE!!!!!!
So WHY WOULD the AFGHANS want us?
Especially when we are KILLING THEM and BOMBING CLINICS?!!!
Violence is on the rise in Afghanistan even as it falls in Iraq, where nearly twice as many US troops are still based. Five US troops have died in Iraq this month, three fewer than in July....
But it is RISING in IRAQ, too!!!
"The military has expressed concerns about spikes in violence"
Unless that is ANOTHER MSM lie, huh?
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