The Afghan fool’s errand continues with no end in sight. Crippled by Obama’s impossible Rules of Engagement, our troops are there with no goal, no purpose, and no outcome other than to serve as targets for the Taliban.
“US ‘to expand’ 2015 Afghanistan combat role,” BBC, November 22, 2014:
US troops in Afghanistan will be allowed to target Taliban fighters in Afghanistan from 2015, US officials say, expanding their role after the end of major combat operations.
Guidelines approved by President Barack Obama will also provide air support for Afghan missions, US media report.
The US force in the country is be cut to 9,800 by the end of 2014.
Previous plans had limited their role to training Afghan troops and tackling the remnants of al-Qaeda.
The military will now be allowed to fight the Taliban if the militants “directly threaten the United States and coalition forces” or provide “direct support to al-Qaeda”, an unnamed official told US media.
The Associated Press and the New York Times say the change has been quietly decided by President Obama in recent weeks….
jewdog says
I’ve read that 99% of Afghanis want Sharia Law. Shouldn’t we be targeting 99% of them?
jihad3tracker says
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Don McKellar says
Well of course Obama is doing this now. The elections are over, he can’t affect the disasterous results any more, he’s doing his executive order thing on a variety of issues that suit him — the American taxpaying public be damned! OF COURSE the endless black hole of Afghanistan will continue to the delight of the enemies of the United States! OF COURSE he’s going to make sure Assad is gone in Syria so that ISIS can fill the void! Look, you pick the worst possible moves and you can be 100% assured that Obama’s going to take them ALL over these next 2 years. The worst possible moves for America and the free world, that is. The best possible moves for the forces of the global Islamic jihad. Draw up a list, check them off.
profitsbeard says
Drive all Muslims out of Afghanistan and return the land to the Buddhists, its original inhabitants.
That’s what followers of Islam would do, mutatis mutandis.
Eventually we will follow their ROE’s.
If we are not completely exterminated meanwhile.
Davegreybeard says
@profitsbeard
“Eventually we will follow their ROE’s.”
Well, certainly we need to be more vigorous in our pursuit of victory.
But I don’t think we will ever resort to the “smiting at necks” tactic, that our Jihadi enemy is so fond of.
Darren says
MOAB’s and machine gun fire work just as well. I think I know how Churchill felt when he saw the buildup of Germany in the 30s. Everywhere you turn the writing is on the wall, though the time frame in this global war is longer. They are often very patient in how they wage war. They have perfected stealth jihad and turned it into an art form. You have to respect the brilliance of this tactic. As someone who enjoys learning about warfare and tactics, not engaging in it or seeing innocent people be killed, but just the chess like aspect of it all. The strategies used analyzing the tactics ect the fact they have weaponized even things like basic human rights and used freedom of religion as a Trojan horse truly is brilliant. They have the west read like an open book and are exploiting every weakness they see for all it’s worth. The west due to various factors engages in two dimensional warfare and has no counter or defense when such tactics are used.
Darren says
As to the suicidal rules of engagement that have gotten thousands of troops killed or wounded, where do you even begin. If a nation would rather look good than protect it’s soldiers well one can conclude that, the nation that engages in such insanity is going to suffer a bad fate eventually. When the enemy knowing the political climate in the west and the rules of engagement constantly exploits them in order to kill more of that nation’s soldiers and that nation refuses to adapt and continues sending men into a meat grinder under rules of engagement that handicap our men, well what can you say. I think the right thing to do is boycot joining the military until this is changed. Send a message to the elected prostitutes, the message is this fight yourself if you won’t let us fight the enemy.
I would not recommend letting my son or daughter join the military given the climate. Your son’s and daughters are precious and your nation has such little respect for them, that they will send them into a meat grinder handicapped and what’s worse when they see the enemy exploiting a weakness they never adapt and keep sending your sons and daughters into the meat grinder to die for a pointless conflict. I know this statement will most likely piss off members in the military, but I think your lives are worth more than what those at the top think your lives are worth. Life is precious as are yours seeing them wasted for such nonsense is a crime against humanity and it sickens me.
jay says
If we could get off oil imagine how much it would piss off every muslim to be the tantruming lord of the flies children in the desert no one gives a shit or talks about anymore. None of our troops sent to be sitting ducks and target practice.
They have no military might, they’d be no threat to anyone anymore, their fighting ranks are full of uneducated isolated angry young men filled with violent barbaric propaganda, or men who simply run away when fighting comes. Israel has the most advanced military in the region and it’s roughly the size of NJ. That tells you something about where the ‘military spending’ for these huge oil rich countries goes. Not their own armies, but to fund long term terrorism because it’s more effective. You can fight your allies and enemies at the same time and play innocent. And they’re so secure in this fact that they have banked everything on it. And we keep buying barrels.
Darren says
The strategy i was thinking of is this. Cut deals with China and Russia where we all get an equal share of the oil and other natural resources in their nations. Form the biggest joint force the world has ever seen and just take over all of their natural resources and park giant forts on them. Deport all muslims from non muslim lands either through force or make the living conditions so uncomfortable for non muslims (like in Saudi Arabia except reversed) they will willingly leave. Areas in Africa where they are killing Christians, we give arms and training to the local governments and back them up with logistics so they drive them from their lands. We then sit back and let them destroy each other.
We wouldn’t even have to do a whole lot. Form a wall of steel around them, and give them a choice either throw down away your 7th century ideology and join humanity by contributing something other than suicide vests, or destroy yourselves. Meanwhile we can go back to the business of trade, scientific development and space exploration, ect. Of course there is no ideal reality, so of course business as usual also means scheming and trying to out manuever one another. We could have a geneva like convention law passed where it states aiding muslims to use as proxies is banned, and no civilized nation will practice such behavior. Will this ever happen? I doubt it, what is coming is civil war in europe, the continued stealth jihad and jihad of the womb in Canada and Australia jihad in China, Demographic conquest in Russia ect. Ironically I feel China is the most pragmatic country when it comes to dealing with Islam. If they try that jihad sh*t and kill Chinese citizens, China and their nationalistic citizens will say collectively f*ck you and procede to wipe out whole cities. I just wish that the respective governments and citizens could wake up and see that the ideology of islam is not business as usual.
Tommy Guns says
I’ve been saying that for a long time. Get off the oil. Advances are being made now with electric cars. Hyundai has taken a big step in introducing the ‘hydrogen fuel cell’ car. I have a lot of faith in fuel cell technology. Scientists say that hydrogen is one of the most plentiful elements in our atmosphere. It’s every where!!! Research it people. But we all need to support these new modes of travel.
It starts with buying hybrid vehicles. And while we still need oil, for the time being, to make the world go ’round, build those pipelines Mr. Obama.
I would love to see arabs back to living in tents in the desert. Without our thirst for oil they got nothing. I think the world will survive without olives and figs from the middle east.
Beagle says
Stay away from the volleyballs.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/afghan-parliament-approves-us-nato-agreements/2014/11/23/b0b2734c-72e3-11e4-a2c2-478179fd0489_story.html?hpid=z6
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber attacked a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 45 people, officials said.
Dozens more were wounded when the bomber, who was on foot and mingling with the crowd, detonated his explosives, said Mokhis Afgha, the spokesman for the governor of Paktika province.
Darren says
What’s worse 99% of the Afghan population supports sharia law. So you have our men sitting there fighting under suicidal rules of engagement designed to get men killed so elected prostitutes avoid bad press and besides the enemy that identified themselves the taliban, they are in an area where by and large the populace considers them crusader infidels in muslim lands. Due to political correctness those at the top will never admit this FACT yes it’s a FACT intel agencies and generals of the west, you can shove your political correct and willful blindness up your a**es sideways, our men are sitting ducks. Afghanistan due to the warlike ideology based on conquest and plunder wrapped up in a religion is content to live in the 7th century.
So here our guys are targets for jihadists and wannabe jihadists the world over who can’t even name who or what the enemy is due to political correctness waiting to get fragged while achieving no strategic purpose. As soon as we leave the Taliban or something like them will retake the country. So thousands of guys die tens of thousands more are wounded trillions spent and what did we achieve? We got Osama Bin Laden!!! Whoopee this didn’t require a full ground invasion and occupation to accomplish, and Osama Bin Laden is a symptom of a much larger problem. What is that problem exactly? Well just like Voldemort in Harry Potter the ideology wrapped up in a religion that can’t be named of course. You politicians wearing camo, you elected prostitutes, and you neutered law enforcement and intel agencies are all useless. Can we have our money back funding you is worthless. I’d rather we do what Rome did and have infrastructure projects, at least they unlike you will serve a useful purpose.
Richie says
Pull out all troops, engage in a full blockade- destroy them economically- there is no reason to depend on middle east oil- we can get most of our oil from Canada- we can get the rest in the gulf of Mexico. The way the US has isolated and marginalized Cuba for the past 50 years is the way we should treat the Islamic hellholes in the middle east.
Richie says
Bear in mind that these Muslims are barbarians. You cannot civilize the barbarian unless you destroy that which is keeping them savage, and that is Islam. As long as Islam exists, the murder and mayhem will never stop. Its like Naziism- the only way to stop Nazi violence was to end Naziism altogether
Luny Bin Ben says
Ah,you infidels are such fools, for which we are thankful. Looking forward are we to getting more military supplies left with us when your new troops leave,like the equipment you left in Iraq which we are using to defend the new Caliphate. Also we need the target practice the new troops will give us. Thanking you much for building our infrastructure while yours is falling apart. One could almost think someone planned it this way. We are having a job waiting for Obama when,and if, he leaves office in 2016. We can always use another Muslim community organizer to help us expand the new Islamic state.
MtB says
Plus : Send all the muzzies back to the hell hole they came from, stop the islamic invasion , the construction of mosques, outlaw the political pseudo-religion of islam.
gaoptimize says
So you think the troops serve no purpose. Why do you think share of global opium poppy production has grown ten-fold during the occupation, while banks like HSBC launder tens of billions in drug money? Perhaps unwittingly, but the troops have served their masters extremely well in Afghanistan.
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