I couldn't find a post on the Afghan war - which seems odd - but this thread seems like the appropriate place, because it seems like Obama is big pussy - like most libs - and having trouble making a decision, while our men die on the battlefield.
If we don't need to be fighting in Afghanistan then let's GTF out! Otherwise give the 160,000 brave men and women who are risking their lives there, the support they need!
Do Obama and Biden really believe they know more about how to win this war than the people on the ground, or is it the fact that Obama - like most libs - is a Muslim, or a Muslim extremist (terrorist) sympathizer?
And the F***ing news media, they're just getting around to reporting what happened last weekend? Is anyone - including FOX - reporting that 8 US soldiers were killed last weekend in an ambush, where the Muslim adversary used a mosque as an ambush point, or are we so politically correct that we first tie the military's hands when it comes to rules of engagement, and then pretend that the enemy isn't engaging us from their "place of worship"? These Muslim religious zealots are cetainly setting themselves apart from the peaceful religions of the world, like Christianity, but apparently we are supposed to accept Muslim radicals without question?
U.S. Afghanistan Base: Death Trap From The Beginning
'We're Sitting Ducks' Soldiers Told Reporter on 2006 Visit
By MATTHEW COLE
Oct. 6, 2009
The remote base in northern Afghanistan where eight U.S. soldiers were killed this weekend in a deadly battle was well-known inside the military as extremely vulnerable to attack since the day it opened in 2006, according to U.S. soldiers and government officials familiar with the area.
A U.S. Soldier scans the adjacent mountains above a base in Kamdesh, Nuristan in 2006. This past weekend insurgents attacked the base and killed at least 8 US soldiers, one of the deadliest single attacks since the war began eight years ago.
(Courtesy Sergio Caro)
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When a reporter visited the base a few months after it opened, soldiers stationed in Kamdesh complained the base's location low in a valley made most missions in the area difficult.
"We're primarily sitting ducks," said one soldier at the time.
Known as Camp Keating, the outpost was "not meant for engagements," said one senior State Department official assigned to Afghanistan, and brings "a sad and terrible conclusion" to a three-year effort to secure roads and connect the Nuristan province to the central government in Kabul.
The boulder strewn road that led into the valley was referred to by U.S. soldiers stationed there as "Ambush Alley."
In addition to the eight dead Americans, at least two Afghan Army officers were killed, with as many as a dozen Afghan National Policemen missing, according to military and Afghan officials.
The base, located less than 10 miles from the Pakistan border and nestled in the Hindu Kush mountains, was attacked almost every day for the first two months it was opened, hit by a constant stream of rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire.
By the third or fourth month of the base's existence, resupply had been limited to nighttime helicopter flights because the daytime left helicopters and road convoys too exposed to insurgent attacks. That remained true through the weekend.
The base had several near-misses with enemy fire over the years. In 2006, all daytime helicopter flights landing at the valley floor were cancelled when an American Blackhawk was nearly hit with an incoming rocket as it was taking off. After the incident, helicopters were banned from landing anywhere but an observation post some three hours' walk above the base on a nearby ridgeline. Even then, helicopters filled with troops or equipment were rushed during offloading, as pilots were keen to take off before drawing hostile fire.
And like many other remote and rural parts of Afghanistan, the local population had begun souring on the American presence after airstrikes had hit civilians in the neighboring villages.
the rest here here...link
Why is it the democrats won't support our men and women in uniform?!!