He suggests, based on his knowledge of the area and the Taliban, that the idea of random attacks because the SSgt went nuts is BS. He suggests that, based on the evidence, (what we've been told,) that this was a deliberate hit on two Taliban members.
A: It's far from easy to stroll out of an FOB with a weapon in the middle of the night.
B: He goes from one house in one village, to another house in a different village to complete his "random killing." Why didn't he just go to another house in the same 'ville?
C: The Taliban are VERY compartmentalized. One guy will recon where an IED might go, another will be paid to just dig the hole, a third will plant the IED, a fourth will trigger it. None of them will know the rest.
D: Conclusion. Do you suppose that he was off the reservation because the ROE wouldn't let him take out a Taliban cell that had injured his bro a few days before?
It makes more sense than "a random crazy act."
I missed the part it was 2 villages. So I only posted it as a single hit. Unless it was only one target with 2 possible locations. But exactly what I think and the grapevine told me.
D: Conclusion. Do you suppose that he was off the reservation because the ROE wouldn’t let him take out a Taliban cell that had injured his bro a few days before?
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I can’t pretend to know what happened with that soldier but for myself—I think I would start to lose it and want to get revenge, it would probably eat me up inside.
The ROE demanded of our troops is unacceptable and contrary to the instincts of man and they must do it for an ungrateful people (Afghans).
I also wonder how the guys ever sleep, from the articles that I’ve read it appears Afghan guards are doing the guarding at night. (at least at that camp/base)
Fight a war for our interests or forget it. I don’t want our troops dying and acting as the world police— to the benefit of ungrateful citizens of another country.
Those people DO NOT WANT to live as we live, let them be and live and die as they will and without taking our people with them.
I am cold— I don’t give a chit about the Afghan people. I care about our troops, our citizens and my family.