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How's this for U.S. military teamwork and planning: A 4-man Seal unit charged with "terminating" a Taliban leader is sent into enemy territory with "sometimes it works," communication equipment, which, in this story, fails 99% of the time. You mean nobody knew their comm units wouldn't work in that terrain before the mission was executed?
Then the Seal team is bumped into by an old man, a young Afghan, and an Afghan kid who are herding goats. The Seal team leader says there are 3 options -- kill the un-armed Afghans, tie them up and let the wolves eat them, or turn them loose - thereby voiding their mission and most likely bringing on a chase by armed Taliban fighters whose numbers will overwhelm the Seals.
What's clear is that the Seals have not been properly trained nor equipped for such a situation. In WWII OSS oiperatives were given syringes loaded with drugs that would put prisoners to sleep for several hours. Evidently that low-tech solution has been forgotten.
Having let the prisoners go, the Americans are soon surrounded by Taliban fighters. When their commander realizes what's going on he orders his people to get aboard a chopper to go and help the trapped Seals. They are supposed to have two Apache gunships to accompany them for cover -- but, through an all-to-often military screw-up, the Apaches are called off. Our two unarmed choppers go in and one is shot down with the loss of the crew and all the Seals on board.
Bad equipment, bad military coordination, and a piss-poor battle plan, lead us to a conclusion where only one Seal survives.
And we wonder why we aren't winning in Afghanistan?
Then the Seal team is bumped into by an old man, a young Afghan, and an Afghan kid who are herding goats. The Seal team leader says there are 3 options -- kill the un-armed Afghans, tie them up and let the wolves eat them, or turn them loose - thereby voiding their mission and most likely bringing on a chase by armed Taliban fighters whose numbers will overwhelm the Seals.
What's clear is that the Seals have not been properly trained nor equipped for such a situation. In WWII OSS oiperatives were given syringes loaded with drugs that would put prisoners to sleep for several hours. Evidently that low-tech solution has been forgotten.
Having let the prisoners go, the Americans are soon surrounded by Taliban fighters. When their commander realizes what's going on he orders his people to get aboard a chopper to go and help the trapped Seals. They are supposed to have two Apache gunships to accompany them for cover -- but, through an all-to-often military screw-up, the Apaches are called off. Our two unarmed choppers go in and one is shot down with the loss of the crew and all the Seals on board.
Bad equipment, bad military coordination, and a piss-poor battle plan, lead us to a conclusion where only one Seal survives.
And we wonder why we aren't winning in Afghanistan?
