Posted on 12/23/2019 11:17:38 PM PST by knighthawk
An Army Special Forces soldier who was killed in action Monday in Afghanistan has been identified by the Pentagon as Taliban and American officials continue to engage in peace negotiations.
Sgt. 1st Class Michael Goble of Washington Township N.J., was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., the Department of Defense said in a statement. He was engaged in combat operations in Afghanistan's Kunduz Province when he suffered fatal injuries.
"Sgt. 1st Class Goble was more than just a member of the 7th Special Forces Group, he was a brother to us, and a beloved family member to the Northwest Florida community," said group commander, Col. John Sannes.
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What, we are still “Negotiating” with them even after their recent attack on our main base via an unfinished structure?
They play at negotiating while initiating more attacks on us and we continue on?
That’s just crazy!
We need to just leave and quit wasting the lives of our men.
Completely friggin senseless to have any American in that sh*thole. We have wasted over 2000 lives there for NOTHING.
If we really want to fight them, use B52s with MOABs.
If and when we leave, we should completely destroy their infrastructure: bridges, dams, power plants, transmission lines, pipe lines, fuel depots. Leave it a smoking wreck.
RIP.
Almost 20 years and we’ve gotten nothing out of this mess. I wonder knowing now what a disaster this is if we’d do it again.
....could not agree with you more...!! same story, different centuries..... old men sending young men off to war and to die....for what...?? this story is especially tragic in light of the recent relevations that the American public has been lied to and lied to continuously about this Afghan debacle... bring our troops home NOW....Afghanistan is just another way of spelling Viet Nam.....
What a waste. For nothing.
Shame on Mr. President. Our troops should not be dying there they should be home all of them! Rest in eternal peace great American.
Horrible we still have Americans dying in this dump. Time to come home and protect our own borders against the narco state and hordes of invaders on our southern border.
This has been around before, lots...Just one Marine’s (but generally shared, I’m guessing) opinion of Asscrackistan:
MARINE’S VIEW OF AFGHANISTAN
A very interesting read, a Marine’s View of what is really going on. This young man is articulate and has a flare for colorful language, and descriptive prose, Scorpions, Chiggers & Sand Fleas. It’s a great letter, a must read for every American citizen:
From a Recon Marine in Afghanistan: From the Sand Pit
It’s freezing here. I’m sitting on hard cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush Mountains, along the Dar’yoi Pamir River, watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles. I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I’ve actually given up battling the chiggers and sand fleas, but the scorpions give a jolt like a cattle prod. Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like transmission fluid, but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of it in my pack.
The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water. That requires couriers and that’s where an old bounty hunter like me comes in handy. I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the hand held, and shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where to drop the hardware. We bash some heads for a while, and then I track and record the new movement. It’s all about intelligence. We haven’t even brought in the snipers yet. These scurrying rats have no idea what they’re in for. We are but days away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to begin. But you know me; I’m a romantic. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: This country blows, man. It’s not even a country. There are no roads, there’s no infrastructure, there’s no government.
This is an inhospitable, rock-pit shit-hole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know jobs. Afghanistan offers only two ways for a man to support his family, join the opium trade or join the army. That’s it. Those are your options. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu, if that’s your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those ‘tent cities of the walking dead’ is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.
I’ve been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks, and Turkmen and even a couple of Pashtu’s, for over a month-and-a-half now, and this much I can say for sure: These guys, are Huns, actual, living Huns. They LIVE to fight. It’s what they do. It’s ALL they do. They have no respect for anything; not for themselves, their families, or for each other. They claw at one another as a way of life. They play polo with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend the family honor. Just Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other’s barbarism. Cavemen with AK-47’s.
Then again, maybe I’m just a cranky young bastard. I’m freezing my ass off on this stupid hill because my lap warmer is running out of juice, and I can’t recharge it until the sun comes up in a few hours. Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me a favor, Bizarre. Write a letter to CNN and tell Wolf and Anderson and that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban “smart”. They are not smart. I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they are looking for is “cunning”. The Taliban are cunning, like jackals, hyenas, and wolverines. They are sneaky and ruthless, and when confronted, they are cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create nothing and destroy everything else.
Smart? Bullshit! Yeah, they’re real smart, Most can’t read, but they’ve spent their entire lives listening to Imams telling them about only one book (and not a very good one, as books go). They consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the devil. They’re still trying to figuring out how to work a Bic lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen. Eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it. OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon, so I have to get back to my hole.?? Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice, but I’m good at it.
Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off the TV sets and move on with your lives.?? The story line you are getting from CNN and other news agencies is utter bullshit and designed not to deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the screen so you will watch the next commercial. We’ve got this one under control. The worst thing you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing what we’re doing over here. You have no idea what we’re doing, and you really don’t want to know. We are your military, and we are only doing what you sent us here to do.
From a Jack Recon Marine in Afghanistan, Semper Fi. “Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps is paying most of your share”. Send this to YOUR FRIENDS so that people there will really know what is going on over here.
God Bless America.
PS: Why would any civilized country want to bring these barbarians into their cities or states. To do so is total suicidal insanity!
“Afghanistan is just another way of spelling Viet Nam...”
And the lessons “learned” in VN have been forgotten...Afghanistan is the proof...
Thanks, have not read this before. Really is a must read.
Deeply heartfelt prayers for SFC Goble’s family and warrior brothers and friends. Mourning with you.
RIP
Thank you, Sgt.
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