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The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to Read

StillBallin75 said:
That's actually not what it says.
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Let's not be naive. That's exactly what it means because the Taliban aren't going to give up under any set of circumstances.

America promised to help Afghanistan in a variety of ways including, but not limited to, military assistance. Does anyone think the Pashtun insurgencies can be defeated by the Afghan Govt. when the American Govt. has been unable to defeat them? There is only one force on earth that can keep the Afghan Govt. going. The US military can keep the stalemate going, but it can't win the war. No one knows why we fight, but the US has nevertheless committed itself to keeping the Afghan Govt. in power for the next decade.
 
Two more American soldiers died in Afghanistan yesterday. One was 22 years old and the other was 28. They died together when an improvised explosive device exploded. They were with the 82nd Airborne. Their deaths go unnoticed except by their families. How many more must die in vain?
 
There is a place called the Well of Souls. Before I knew of this place on earth I read about a Well of Souls in the Riverworld series by Philip Jose Farmer...the series starts with volume one: To Your Scattered Bodies Go.

I would like to think there is another plane of existence for these men and women who have given the last full measure of their devotion to an ungrateful nation.
 
Four more Americans died in Afghanistan yesterday. Two of them died in separate improvised explosive device incidents.

The other two died from non-combat related causes. What is a "non-combat" related cause? From what I can gather the phrase means death resulting from accident, disease, suicide or drug overdose.

Accidents and disease are a fact of life. But it takes hopelessness for a man or woman to commit suicide or to overdose himself or herself.

When these soldiers are identified I will attach the link.
 
dirtpoorchris said:
Shhh stop it. No one wants to see the bad things that happen in the world. Only the pure, beautiful, sterile Order.
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"The dead is in the march
They're soldiers in the dark
They mourn the living
Regret our sinning

Their bombs are roaring in the dust
They sing a song to us
Their march is heavy are we ready yet?
The bullets fall loose through their skin
They're swinging in the wind
Their march is deadly are we ready?

Lock the doors don't let them in
Board it up because out time is slipping and they're not listening
Lock the doors don't let them in
Board it up so they can't win

There's no surrender till the dust has settled here
They mourn the living
Regret our sinning
The dead is in the march
They're solders spreading fear
In the beginning of the end is nowhere near
The end is nowhere near...."

Here are the rest of the lyrics to MARCH OF THE DEAD:

Eyes Set To Kill - March Of The Dead Lyrics
 
Albert Di Salvo said:
Eyes Set To Kill - March Of The Dead Lyrics
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For some reason it partially reminds me of:

"Daylight has finally reached it's end
As evenfall strikes into the sky
Far away in the dark crimson moonlight
Sickening souls cry out in pain

Whispering voices summoning screams
Waiting for Satan to bless their sins
Blackhearted angels fallen from grace
Possessed by the search for utter darkness

Hear the cries from the Mourning Palace
Feel the gloom of restless spirits
Hear the screams from the Mouring Palace
Feel the doom of haunting chants

Eternal is their lives in misery
Eternal is their lives in grief
Abandoned in a void of nothingness
A chain of anger, a fetter of despair

In this garden of depraved beings
This unsacred place of helpless ones
Satan blessed the creatures
Inswathed them in endless night

Whispering voices, summoning screams
Waiting for Satan to bless their sins
Blackhearted angels fallen from grace
Possessed by the search for utter darkness"
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~Dimmu Borgir - Mourning Palace

(I may hate the fact that our US militairy is attacking foreign soil but, that doesnt mean I think they are Satan. Not trying to compare them to that even though the song happens to be "Licifarian".)
 
washunut said:
sadly the key difference between Vietnam and now is the draft. If middle class kids were getting drafted and blown to bits over there we would have the public outrage we had then. Now most people are not vested in what happens over there. No draft and even a cut cut in the middle of a war, which seems amoral to me.
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there were images of mutilated bodies on the news during vietnam...
currently the vast majority of information and media imagery coming out of afghanistan is 'controlled'/'issued'/'divested' by the pentagon.
that happens to be the way it is now, I don't believe it is particularly good for the US public when they need to establish informed or 'human' opinions on the situation in our multiple occupations.
 
of a beret ever goes down in the field (out there) someone at operations screwed it up...

read the article... seems like he was hit during transportation to somewhere, likely random... =\

unfortunate...
 
A death in Afghanistan is a death nonetheless. The mourning is undiminished by the cause of death.
 
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