Thursday, February 23, 2012

When your allies are your enemies

What do we do when our allies are our enemies? When our allies kill our own troops?  I'd say we need to be more careful choosing our friends and in the meanwhile, we need to deal with our enemies accordingly. The bottom line, the Afghanis are not our friends and they are not our allies. We invaded their country in order to drive out the Taliban.

Having been driven from Afghanistan, the Taliban is now given safe haven in Pakistan and in essence nothing really has changed concerning the Taliban or their threat to America. Aside from the fact that we have now lost over three thousand young Americans to a pointless endeavor. America should either make the arrangements for these groups of militant Islam to meet Allah in wholesale numbers, or we should leave period.

There is absolutely nothing to be gained by our continued presence in Afghanistan. Our interloper in chief has already given the game away, so to continue to stay at this point makes no sense what soever. They Afghans and the Taliban know it and those in America with an ounce of common sense know it. So why risk anymore of our troops there. We will be needing them soon enough here at home as it is.

Afghan soldier kills two U.S. soldiers

Afghanistan, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- An Afghan soldier, apparently angry over the burning of Korans at a U.S. air base, fatally shot two U.S. troops and wounded four others, Afghan officials said.
The International Security Assistance Force said in a statement two military personnel were killed in eastern Afghanistan Thursday by "an individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform" but didn't identify the troops' nationality.
CBS News said an Afghan official said the dead and wounded in the attack in the eastern province of Ningarhar were American. The official said the shooting seemed to be motivated by the burning of Korans at the Bagram Air Base north of Kabul, but did not elaborate.
Haji Mohammad Hassan, chief of Khugyani district in Ningarhar province, told CNN, "We don't know who started the shooting first and what kind of guns were used, but we have started our investigation to find out the details of the incident."

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