Obama Pledges Investigation

A tragedy of war has occurred in Afghanistan. A British aid worker was kidnapped by the Taliban and in an attempt to rescue her from her captors, the woman died during the rescue.

Initially it was reported that she died as a result of one of her captors detonating a bomb and killing them both. Now the allegations are that one of the US Special Forces soldiers involved in the rescue may have thrown a grenade and that was the cause of her death.

 In either event, there are certain immutable realities as it concerns this incident in particular and the war in general. And those realities are, that people get killed on both sides of the ball.  War is not some simple scrimmage between teams. It is life and death and it is certainly unpredictable. Therefore, when those safely in the rear or at home in their lounge chairs attempt to quantify and correlate their views of how things should have happened, it is a laughable exercise to say the least.It is also sickening to those who have been there and witnessed true death and carnage at the hands of maniacal zealots.

Obama Pledges Investigation

President Barack Obama promised "to get to the bottom" of a failed rescue attempt by U.S. special forces that ended in the death a captive British aid worker in Afghanistan, after NATO said an American grenade may have killed her.

Obama offered his condolences to Prime Minister David Cameron in a phone call Monday and promised a full investigation.
NATO initially said a Taliban bomb killed Linda Norgrove, 36, during Friday's operation to free her from a compound in the eastern province of Kunar.
However, the coalition said Monday that, after reviewing surveillance footage, it is possible U.S. forces may have thrown a grenade that killed Norgrove nearly two weeks after she was kidnapped while traveling in the east.
"The review showed what was believed to be a member of the rescue team throwing a hand grenade in the area near where Ms. Norgrove was later found," said NATO spokeswoman Maj. Sunset Belinsky. "It's now unclear what the exact circumstances surrounding her death are, and the investigation will attempt to determine the facts."

 The bottom line. the woman was kidnapped by Islamic radicals (also known as "the religion of peace."). A rescue was attempted by the most elite military special forces on this planet. But in the end the victim died along with her captors during the rescue attempt. In the real world, there are no perfect endings. People die and many times innocent people die or are sacrificed as a result of nothing more sinister than circumstances. 

 This poor woman didn't die as a result of her rescue, she died as a result of her captivity at the hands of murdering bastards and that should be noted first and foremost before any commentary is proffered by those in the ivory towers. 

But no, now we must have a presidential ordered investigation into who screwed up, who's to blame. Blame must be assigned to someone, even if the reality belies the fact of a trick of fate. Someone must be held politically responsible and made to pay for not being perfect. 

Meanwhile, those truly responsible for this death continue on in the business of creating more death and more misery and no one questions their motives for fear of being called racist.

 In a reasoned world with capable leadership? We would be pressing forth as a nation and as allies to avenge the death of this innocent woman. Instead, we are engaging in another round of public flaggelation of the evil American military.