General McInerny, just now on Fox, is ALSO questioning the large number of SEALS aboard that helo, as well as the fact that there were afghan troops on board with them. He says this is a VERY valid question. So it isn’t just us who think this is rotten. And HE wonders who the hell was in charge of this *op* because this just isn’t normal.
He also said it’s time to stop trying to win *hearts and minds* over there and just do it.
It’s no longer “hearts and minds”, it’s “trust and confidence”. We always wondered when the Afghani’s were going to start trying to win our “trust and confidence”. The people over there don’t respect or fear us, as we try to win them over with kindness. It’s the Taliban they fear, and that’s why they help them or at least don’t help us. And hence, why we keep getting blown up with IEd’s in the middle of villages.
The ANA and ANP are no better than the Keystone Cops. Every time we would have them go out with us they’d have a negligent discharge. Besides the fact that the ANA are killing us,(see Gamberi this past spring) there is no way that they are even close to taking over security for themselves. They wouldn’t go out unless US forces were with them and would high tail it when the SHTF.
Where is the blowback?
Obama wants this war lost. No question about it.
And what is in question surrounding the specifics of this mission is did somebody in the ranks tip off the Taliban so they could assassinate these SEALs? Whether we will ever know is questionable. But God knows and their sin will find them out.