SNAFU!: Afghanistan. The only real solution.

Thanks for the link Tom!

Terrible news strikes again and to be honest I'm beyond tired of the bullshit that is Afghanistan. Its time to call a spade a spade. The people are primitive, backwards by Western standards and have a social dynamic that completely befuddles us. We are caught in a civil war where the only thing that both sides can agree on is that we shouldn't be there.

Either we get out or we nuke the entire place and be done with it. But Afghanistan isn't worth another drop of US or Western allied blood.

If women lose their rights and aren't allowed to go to school or vote. To bad. Sorry for ya. If they have a full fledged civil war. We did too and survived. If they turn into a staging base for terrorist then cool, we turn the country into a parking lot.

But Afghanistan isn't worth the effort, money or most importantly the lives of our people.

Not by a long shot.

If you're wondering what has me pissed this morning then check this out from the Long Wars Journal.

ISAF reports that three of its soldiers were killed today by "an individual wearing an Afghan National Civil Order Police uniform" in the south:

An individual wearing an Afghan National Civil Order Police uniform turned his weapon against International Security Assistance Force servicemembers in southern Afghanistan today, killing three service members.

The incident is under investigation.

It is ISAF policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities.

The British Ministry of Defence later released a statement on their website confirming that three of their soldiers from a Police Advisory Team were killed in Helmand province:

Two soldiers serving with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards and one serving with the Royal Corps of Signals were killed in an incident at Checkpoint Kamparack Pul in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province.

The soldiers were part of a Police Advisory Team which had been to the checkpoint to conduct a shura. On leaving, they were engaged by small arms fire from a man wearing an Afghan Police uniform. During this exchange of fire the three soldiers were wounded and, despite receiving first aid at the scene, they died of their injuries.

Afghan security forces personnel have now killed 27 ISAF soldiers in 2012. The last "green-on-blue" attack that resulted in the death of an ISAF soldier took place on June 18, when three Afghan Local Police members killed an ISAF soldier in the south.