having been there i can tell you that we have no business

Posted on: February 25, 2017 at 17:18:19 CT

there really but the military was not allowed to succeed. the general public or perhaps it's the MSM's portrayal of the general public has no will to succeed. the politicians failed. not the military.

i'll give you a quick example:

we had an aerostat, basically a small blimp with sophisticated suverillance cameras that could see with great clarity and detail for miles, that would go up about 1,000 feet above our combat outpost.

via these blimps we would often see insurgents headed toward police checkpoints, afghan army posts, etc.

we would call the local police commander of the AUP or the commander of the ANA and tell them hey you've got 4 guys on motorcycles armed with ak's and an RPG headed toward checkpoint X.

the afghan commander would be like well kill them! send an airship. hit them with artillery. drone them. etc.

by policy at that point, unless US/coalition troops were threatened we couldn't intervene on behalf of our allies.

lots of people who were cooperating with us died as a result of this policy. my job was to advise the AUP commander. the ability to do my job was SEVERELY hampered b/c of the resentment (well placed i might add) against us NOT helping save his personnel when we clearly had the means and ability to do so.

and we wonder why they think we have no resolve and why they don't trust us fully.

Edited by blake1771 at 17:21:33 on 02/25/17