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2005-08-13 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Frank G 2005-08-13 15:10|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "One of the main objectives is breaking up a network of militants led by a local Taliban officer, Ahmad Shah, also known as ~~Ismail~~ Soon-to-be-Dead, who claimed responsibility for the June 28 attacks, said Kirimat Tanhah, a commander in the U.S.-trained and financed Afghan Special Forces. Shah is suspected of having ties to al-Qaida militants in Pakistan, he said."

Payback time is coming, you assholes!

Posted by The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2005-08-13 15:18|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com] 2005-08-13 15:18|| Front Page Top

#2 why not "soften" up that valley and teh insurgents with a couple MOABS the brass was always showing off. At least the sale of hearing aids and eye patches might lead to tips on the ones that get away

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-13 15:24|| 2005-08-13 15:24|| Front Page Top

#3 And remember boys, no prisoners no explanations.

Posted by smn 2005-08-13 15:25|| 2005-08-13 15:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Agreed

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-13 15:33|| 2005-08-13 15:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Where's the B-52 filled with napalm canisters? It'd clean out that valley PERMANENTLY, without putting US lives at risk. The do-gooders want to make war so expensive nobody will pursue it. All they do is handicap those who have to fight wars. About the third time some cave complex got hit with napalm, there wouldn't be a cave in Afghanistan inhabited for more than ten minutes at a time. Stupid "antiwar" idiots! You notice they never put THEIR lives on the line trying to get what they want. They should be the first to be put in harm's way, so their silly ideas will be proven most conclusively not to work. It also has the secondary effect of cleaning out the gene pool - something long overdue.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-08-13 15:36|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-08-13 15:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Guys ... sad news on two accounts:

Apparently we did away with napalm thanks in part to the Vietnam War protesters and the MOABS - last I read, they were discontinued.

Posted by The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2005-08-13 15:40|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com] 2005-08-13 15:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Add me to the vote for an airstrike.

Posted by Penguin 2005-08-13 16:01|| 2005-08-13 16:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Old Spook discussed the reasons against destroying the whole area not long ago. As I recall, quite a few of the locals are quietly helping us, and we do not deliberately kill innocents. Angry as the situation may (does!!) make us. And he wrote this while, or shortly after, working 24/7 as part of the team supporting the rescue effort over the July 4th weekend.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-08-13 16:09|| 2005-08-13 16:09|| Front Page Top

#9 some locals, and the word can be broadcast easily - get out and now

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-13 16:23|| 2005-08-13 16:23|| Front Page Top

#10 And remember... watch your backs in the corn fields... and when dealing with the local people who live by and off the land... be vewy vewy careful

Posted by Cratle Thromoter2287 2005-08-13 16:52|| 2005-08-13 16:52|| Front Page Top

#11 OldSpook: A friend of mine in the AF has stated that part of the reason they got rid of napalm is that it was hard to handle, and they got replacements for doing the same task of "bombing an area but having the damage relatively contained, thus minimizing collateral damage."

Of course, they want to ban that munition too.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-08-13 17:28|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-08-13 17:28|| Front Page Top

#12 OOPS: mistook Old Patriot for Old Spook. Sorry.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-08-13 17:29|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-08-13 17:29|| Front Page Top

#13 Could be we're going light on the airstrikes because we think there's a target in the area who's body we'd like to identify.

Posted by BillH 2005-08-13 18:03|| 2005-08-13 18:03|| Front Page Top

#14 you mean OBL or Zawahiri? Gawdddd I wish!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-13 18:12|| 2005-08-13 18:12|| Front Page Top

#15 No idea it just has seemed strange to me that they have filmed a documentary in the area and the overal amount of firepower that seems to be concentrated there. It's obvious that those Seals ran into something they were not expecting.

Posted by BillH 2005-08-13 18:39|| 2005-08-13 18:39|| Front Page Top

#16 Ahhhh.Rantburg.How I have miised thee!
How goes it with my fellow RB'ers.I have missed you all.

Offer 3x the going rate to kill or roll over on the bad guys.With a substantial bonus for a dozen or more.

Posted by raptor 2005-08-13 19:32|| 2005-08-13 19:32|| Front Page Top

#17 Welcome back. The hunting's sparcer as the marshall's have been scaring off trolls.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-13 21:03|| 2005-08-13 21:03|| Front Page Top

#18 And a good thing IMO as there will be increasingly controversial real shit coming down over the next few months. Save your ammo, friends and neighbors ... it will be a target-rich environment.

Posted by leader of the pack 2005-08-13 21:07|| 2005-08-13 21:07|| Front Page Top

#19 How many more American mothers will have to lose their sons?

Posted by Ebbert Ebbegum5849 2005-08-13 22:34|| 2005-08-13 22:34|| Front Page Top

#20 Sadly too many. If only we could visualize whirled peas, bunnys and kitties would play in the sunshine and noone would ever ever be mean to one another and all the murderous Islamofascists would peacefully return to the perfection of their calligraphy. And then the brave ADULT men and women of our armed forces would not need to deploy to counter them.

You may consider yourself a victim. They do not - they are proud to serve.

Alas, regarding that visualization? Whirled peas bear many resemblances to baby puke, unfortunately, and while I'd love to see real and lasting peace I'm not hopeful that it will come anytime soon. We are at the start of a major geopolitical shift. It will take a generation - and those who would retreat into sobby slogans will no more avoid it than those who face it straight on.

Posted by leader of the pack 2005-08-13 22:51|| 2005-08-13 22:51|| Front Page Top

#21 I think we have advanced a bit since 'nam. That said, the folks will paint the targets and the fly-boyz will accomodate.

No sense killing or maiming the people we are trying to protect, the same folks who will be voting.

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-13 23:01|| 2005-08-13 23:01|| Front Page Top

#22 How many children must lose their mothers and fathers?

How many children and women must be be enslaved and raped?

How much blood, EE5849, does it take to wash clean your deadly and discredited ideology?

Posted by ed 2005-08-13 23:17|| 2005-08-13 23:17|| Front Page Top

#23 I suggested FAE for that valley back in July. I still think so. Tell the "innocent" to get out and sterilize the place for "pour l'encourager les autres." I know that we don't (like to) kill innocents, but did our share in WW II. We were as vicious as we needed to be to defeat the enemy and end the war.

My patience is just about exhausted. Who are the innocents? The innocents are the ones who turn the asshats in. Talk is cheap. Whiskey costs money.

Posted by SR-71">SR-71 2005-08-13 23:47|| 2005-08-13 23:47|| Front Page Top

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