There were 40 American servicemen killed in Afghanistan between July and August, 43 between August 30 and October 1. 25 American Servicemen killed between September 30 and now, October 16.
We are on our way to surpassing last month which was the worst month for American deaths than in ALL of the preceeding years. The worst previous month for U.S. forces was in September 2008, when 26 were killed.
Since McChrystal has taken over in Afghanistan, our casualties have skyrocketed. He seems deaf and blind to the carnage he has inflicted on our Troops. The obama administration is killing us and McChrystal has helped him do it.
I was GOING to say, “immeasurably.” But we CAN measure, can’t we?
I think it is a bunch of things that is causing this,
1. The overt weakness of our president. The enemy knows that he will cow tow to the international community, Human Rights Watch, UN, etc. That means they can do whatever they want.
2. Rules of Engagement. I know for a fact that you cannot fire on anyone or anything unless you actually SEE the person with gun in hand shooting at you. So if you are taking a barrage of fire from a house, and you can’t see whose firing at you too bad.
3. IF we changed the rules of engagement, let our military do what they are trained to do and had their backs, a larger presence could work. The Taliban are emboldened and take over the villages at night. They intimidate through death. They have no problem going in at night and killing a few locals to get their point across.
4. This insanity of the Democrats wanting the Afghans to take a more prominent role in their own defense. That is all well and good but the majority of the Afghanis are ILLITERATE!!! They cannot even sign their name.
5. Understand that the Taliban are not Afghanis they are a fanatical religious cult looking for power, to even insinuate that they could be part of the government just fuels them, it sends the message that they ARE winning!!
6. The Afghanis are not Iraqis, in the cities they are somewhat modern but the outskirts, they are nomadic and tribal, the war lords are like our Mayors, work with them but they need support. They are so war weary that they are just trying to survive.
This is just my opinion, from talking to people who have been there from the beginning to just recently.
Obama is an ASS but we all know that.
The blood is on his hands for his indecision. If he does not have the heart to do what needs to be done, then get them all out of there and live with the ramifications.
McChrystal the politically correct General=guilty as heck!
“We are pinned down. We are running low on ammo. We have no air. We’ve lost today,” Marine Maj. Kevin Williams, 37, said through his translator to his Afghan counterpart, responding to the latter’s repeated demands for helicopters.
RIP Major Williams, 9/09/2009