Posted on 04/01/2013 8:14:53 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - An Afghan teenager killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck while he played with a group of local children, officials said Monday.
The killing comes as the monthly U.S. death toll rose sharply in March to 14 with the start of the spring fighting season when the Taliban and other insurgents take advantage of improved weather to step up attacks.
Sgt. Michael Cable, 26, was guarding Afghan and U.S. officials meeting in a province near the border with Pakistan when the stabbing occurred last Wednesday, two senior U.S. officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
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I had to edit what I was going to say here, but it involved ‘Allah sort them out’, and I’m glad I got out of the Marines before I had to go over there.
What again is the mission there? If it’s to get those knuckledraggers to like us, it’s failed miserably.
Not one of those creatures can be trusted. Not a single one.
If you cut the tail off one of those creatures, it twists and thrashes ‘til sundown.
Damn, what ever happened to situation awareness we are still at War kids or no kids.
Throw North Korea in too.
Change the ROE for actual war or bring’em all home. Now!
Trees... But you already knew that.
It has the largest deposits of lithium on the planet. Energy is important, that part of the world has lots of sunshine, lots of oil and lots of lithium...all used to generated power.
Then go for a neutron blanket bombing.
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