Afghan police failed those airmen

The Stars & Stripes reports that initial reports from the troops who were there, those six airmen who we’ve been talking about the last few days, the six who died in a suicide bomber attack can be laid at the feet of the Afghan policemen whose job it was to provide security for the team;

According to U.S. personnel familiar with the incident, Afghan national police had failed to thoroughly search the suicide bomber and his vehicle before allowing him to proceed through the patrol. The Airmen were all with the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations, a military law enforcement unit.

The six deaths marked the single largest loss of American life at the hands of the enemy since NATO officially ended its combat mission in Afghanistan last year.

When this administration began talking about withdrawal from Afghanistan back in 2009, I warned on this blog that the biggest danger to US forces was leaving too few troops behind so that they would have to depend on Afghans or other foreign forces for their security and my prediction was born out in this case.

This administration is trying to fight the war against terror on the cheap, but the cost is in blood and paid for by the troops. Either fight the war in the way it needs to be fought or just pull the Hell out. The next president is going to have to make the decisions, but the Obama Administration has a responsibility to the troops who have provided him with the only successes of his terms in office. Stop making decisions based on political expediency.

Category: Terror War