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| Afghanistan |
| U.S. Marines headed back to Taliban hotspot 2 years after pull-out |
| 2017-01-10 |
| [CBSNEWS] The United States will send some 300 Marines back into Afghanistan’s southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province for the first time since the end of America’s combat mission in 2014. CBS Radio News correspondent Cami McCormick reports the Marines’ mission will be to train and advise Afghan national security forces, who have struggled to drive Taliban turbans out of the opium-rich region. The Marines’ commander, Brigadier General Roger Turner, admitted to CBS News, however, that it is a high-risk mission and the American troops will encounter the full spectrum threat from the Taliban insurgency. The 300 Marines are currently in training for the mission at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and will deploy this Spring. McCormick says about half of the Marines on this mission have been deployed to Helmand in the past. They will be located in different areas of Helmand, but some will stay at Camp Leatherneck, which was handed over to the Afghans in 2014. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 I think Hamid objected. It cut into his stash and income |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-01-10 17:42 |
| #4 You can't eradicate roaches by periodically turning on the light and stamping those that scurry around. Problem is Pakistan. The nest is there. |
| Posted by: john frum 2017-01-10 16:35 |
| #3 I do wonder why a herbicide program intended for the poppy fields has not been tried. I seem to recall that at one point we were, and providing farmers with seeds and training to grow substitute crops. But then the priority changed, possibly to hearts'n'minds, and it was decided letting them grow the stuff was not really a problem with worldwide impact far beyond the War on Terror. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-10 16:22 |
| #2 I don't see the jihad crap ending anytime soon, sadly. I do wonder why a herbicide program intended for the poppy fields has not been tried. Forget about the farmers, they are part of the problem. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2017-01-10 10:11 |
| #1 If we had done it from the start, would we be there today? Or have to deal with all the jihad crap worldwide to the extent we are today since then? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-01-10 07:05 |
