General Allen is a Marine's Marine.
Hardcore.
Will look you in the eye and give you the bad news.
But this is hard to fathom....via Military.com
Marine Gen. John Allen told reporters at the Pentagon that he and other top leaders were doing their best to prevent so-called “green on blue” killings, but that the nature of counterinsurgency means fratricide could remain constant or even increase.That my friends is utter bullshit.
“The enemy is going to do all that they can to disrupt our operations and to disrupt the integrity of the government forces,” Allen said. “We should expect this.” He cited examples in Iraq, Vietnam and “historically” throughout counter-insurgency wars.
But he said the threat of attacks from allies would not derail what Allen believes is the steady progress in the war, and he praised the overall capabilities of today’s Afghan National Security Forces.
“They really are better than we thought they would be at this point,” he said. “More important, they are better than they thought they would be.”
Allen tried to stress the closeness of U.S. forces with their Afghan counterparts despite this season’s setbacks – he said many of the advisers that had been pulled from the Afghan ministries had returned, and talked about the closeness between American and local ground troops.
The British just lost two more soldiers to attacks from Afghans.
They aren't better than we thought they would be at this point. They're fucking pathetic. They're illiterate, get high and since DADT is gone I won't tell you about another bad habit that they have.
Oh and lets talk about advisers with the Afghans. You have perimeters and then you have interior perimeters and then you have the rule of not turning your back on anyone that isn't a Westerner.
Geez.
You got bit by the politics bug too General.
A really sad day.
You're right Sol, I saw the news today that a another soldier and Royal marine had died and thought (not for the first time) that these people clearly don't want our help building a nation, we have no need or reason to help them do it, so why are we there losing good men now? If al-Qaeda try and use it as a haven again then I hear the CIA has got pretty good with its drones.
ReplyDeleteLets just get out of that shithole and let the Afghans do what they want to each other, im sure Karzai would love it until the country fell apart around him again.
spot on Grim.
ReplyDeleteour guys are not only caught in the middle of what is essential a civil war, while rebuilding a nation and training them, but the guy in charge just said that the allies are GOING TO HAVE TO GET USED TO THE IDEA OF OUR PEOPLE BEING KILLED BY THE PEOPLE WE"RE SUPPOSE TO HELP!
that my friend is criminal.
if he was the man i thought he was then he'd tell the leadership that we honestly can't accomplish the mission.
but he isn't the man i thought he was.
he's a politician now.
it kinda makes me want to punch walls.
i guess you can't trust anyone with a star on their shoulder...they're not Marines once that happens...they're politicians.