Afghan policeman shoots 11 colleagues
One of our ninjas sends us a link from the Associated Press which reports a green-on-blue attack among the Afghan police;
The attack happened late on Monday night in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, said Omer Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor.
The attacker collected all the firearms and ammunition from his colleagues, then fled the scene in a police vehicle — presumably to join the Taliban. “An investigation is underway,” Zwak added.
Dr. Din Mohammad at the Lashkar Gah Hospital said the hospital morgue received 11 bodies of slain policemen, all with gunshot wounds.
Think about how long it would take to shoot eleven people, and some of them were armed but never returned effective fire.
The only way to beat the Taliban is to make life tougher for them than it is for the run-of-the-mill Afghans.
Category: Terror War
Gengis Khan was the only one to “pacify” that area.
Absent his methodology, we are unlikely to control it.
We could create the impression of “very, very expensive to annoy” and call it a day.
Napalm aids in providing that sense for our enemies.
So Does Willie Pete.
I’d bring plenty of ‘Snake and Nape’ to this party.
a.k.a. ‘Shake and Bake’
Matie, we’re going to have to agree to disagree on this one.
It was never ISAF’s aim to pacify AFG. The opposite is true. Unlike every previous empire’s incursion into that shit-hole, ISAF’s aim was never to conquer the country of Afghanistan, but rather to enable it to exist!
EOF is/was about doing some far more worthwhile that pacifying Afghanistan. It was about finally allowing it to exist as a fully functioning nation. Far more difficult.
Was this task always going to be harder than conquering/pacifying it?…..maybe, maybe not.
No one’s ever tried it before.
Yup, I drank the cool-aid……..
The locals have apparently voted -not- to have an Afghanistan, other than in the sense of “The place where we fight over the rocks and Poppies.”
If we are not trying to pacify it, and we are not trying to destroy it, and we are not trying to leave it, what remains? “Nation Building” is only possible by the involved notional nationals, and only if a large majority agree and co-operate.
The locals have voted, and War Eternal is their chosen lifestyle, for millennia past and no sign of faltering gusto.
Depopulating it would be the only likely way to significantly change it, and alll the chemical weapons we -ever- produced would fail to depopulate that place. Nukes would screw up everything around it, and do surprisingly little damage to that immense rockpile.
Raid annoyances there? Sure. Requires maximum savagery to make the intended impression, but entirely do-able. Try to -occupy- that mess? Stupid.
A noble goal and probably the only one that we, as a nation, could realistically pursue. Right before 9/11 Osama bin Laden had Ahmad Shah Massoud killed because he was probably the one man that we could have put in place who might have unified the nation. Without him (and there was no one else even approaching his stature in Afghanistan) we faced a very tall order going forward. Osama was an evil bastard, but he knew how to prepare the battlefield.
Nice to know we’ve effectively changed the hearts and minds of the locals….why are we there again?
Some people CANNOT become civilized.
“Underneath a Starry Flag, civilize them with a Krag”
Love it! From whence the quote?
Seems to be part of a barracks ditty from the Philippine Insurrection. The whole verse is:
Damn, damn, damn the Filipinos!
Cut throat khakiac ladrones!
Underneath the starry flag,
Civilize them with a Krag,
And return us to our beloved home.
Krag of course references the Krag-Jorgensen rifle. I have no idea what “khakiac ladrones” means, but its safe to assume its not a compliment.
Edited to add, Upon further research, “ladrones” means “thieves.”
There is a cleaned up version used by the (US) Military order of the Carabao. “Insurrectos” replaces “Philippinos”.
Cocksucker.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
(followed by a bright burst of orange flame and black oily smoke as the napalm ignites)
No non-fatal wounds means he most likely shot each in the head when they were down. Then, he carried away the victims’ weapons. All moral and ethical issues aside, please, I’ll give the bastard his due, commend him before executing him when he’s caught–if he’s caught.
And…he darts off course…I was watching Apocalypse again yesterday, a very good and honest account, in a series, of WWI. Accompanied by pictures of recruits using wooden rifles for training due to the lack of real rifles in early 1917, the narrator pointed out that American trainees were very adept at one thing that would prove useful in trench warfare: street fighting. American boys were fighters. I would like to think that is still one of our national traits. Certainly, among our soldiers and Marines that is true. I just wonder wonder about the rest of the males of military age in this country.
I don’t think very many folks are adept at that kind of fighting anymore, unless they learn while in service. With the popularity of man buns and wearing skinny jeans, I believe that kind of thinking has gone the way of the dodo.
“Apocalypse”
Watched the whole series in one sitting last week. Excellent refresher course on who did what to who and when and where.
Workplace violence. It’s everywhere.
No worries, mate. Nothing another 15 years of training won’t cure.
Time to case the colors and bring the troops home and let these fuckers kill each other.
Afghanistan is a tribal, village, regional and clan oriented country . It IS a failed state and likely will be as the Muslim Uruzgan Pashtun mind doesn’t stay up at night worrying about the same species living in Herat or Helmand. They don’t care because they are too busy
dealing with revenge killings of different tribalists who insulted one of an elder at a wedding 50 yrs ago.
One explanation of what we ISAF) did in 2009-10 was to NOT let a failed state exist adjacent to Pakistan which owned nuclear weaponry. Well, we haven’t done it yet. They just don’t think nationally. What goes on in Kabul might as well be on Saturn a far as they are concerned . NEVER would I expend one American life there again. I was there a year (Helmand) and I saw enough disgusting cultural, sexual and societal habits to last me for a lifetime. It is “Where Even God Comes to Cry” CAPT Bones USN (ret)