[PieterCasparzen]

IMHO...

Since the raid that killed been ladin, all the enemy over there were bent on revenge. I’m guessing they set up manual surveillance chains with communication via cell phone, coupled with planned simple rpg guys sitting awake at night, all over afghan and pakystan at all high value targets. When middle of the night Chinook is heard, they know they have an incoming and they manually track from the ground and start alerting ahead. Essentially, every high value target is a trap.

Just my guess.

Which is why I wish that this were the last deaths using current strategies.

No how, no way should we attempt to nation build over there.

Why - because we have to stay forever. Because the second we leave, they go back to normal life over there.

You can’t teach morality - you can only teach respect and fear with liberal use of violence on aggressors.

A simple destruction of the capital city was all that was needed for afghan, should have taken only a month.

We’re down a rat hole trying to teach the rats table manners. Just chuck a grenade down there and go home.

[Vendome]

Whatever happened...happened.

We shouldn’t be ID’ing our guys and their units for PR hits from our side and for damn sure, the other side.

FUBO.

[Goldwater Girl]

CNN is reporting now (I know, I know- I hate them too)that the Chinook was returning from a night rescue mission where another unit had been pinned down. The target was some bomb-maker- doesn't sound high value, but who knows.
I wonder if that could explain the large number of Special Forces personnel on one chopper.

[AndyJackson]

A simple destruction of the capital city was all that was needed for afghan, should have taken only a month.

You will recall that that is what we did. Then we stayed.