The quiet pain of insider shootings in Afghanistan
Widows of two of the dead officers, along with a former Air Force legal officer, are convinced that Gul had help from fellow Afghan officers.
“You’d have to suspend disbelief to assume one Afghan airman could shoot and kill nine Americans, eight of them armed and well-trained,” said retired Air Force Lt. Col. Sally Stenton, a former civilian police investigator who was a legal officer assigned to the airport the day of the attack…
“The American government is putting a Band-Aid on the issue,” said retired Air Force Capt. Suzanna Ausborn, whose husband, Air Force Maj. Jeffrey Ausborn, was killed at the airport.
Miriam Nylander Hamilton, a former Air Force enlistee whose husband, Capt. Nathan Nylander, also died that April morning, said the U.S. military was continuing to expose its forces to turncoat Afghan security force members — or insurgents posing as army or police. She said her husband told her that commanders emphasized maintaining good relations with Afghans, rather than focusing on advisors’ security.
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Disgusting. What are we still doing there? What an utter waste of lives and treasure.
MoreLiberty on November 25, 2012 at 9:58 PM
if there is no trust, there is no working with these people. They’ve chosen their path, and that is a path of continued poverty, isolationism, Islamism, and destruction.
let ‘em have it. Let their children suffer for their deeds. Ours have suffered enough.
ted c on November 25, 2012 at 9:59 PM
But, but, winning hearts and minds.
Shy Guy on November 25, 2012 at 10:10 PM
The Mad Hatter Perfumed Prince “Winning Muslim Hearts-and-Minds” Generals don’t feel any pain.
VorDaj on November 25, 2012 at 10:12 PM
And this is Insane-Hussein Obama’s war now. He has gotten more than twice as many Americans killed in Afcrapistan as Bush did and in half the time. He should get a Nobel Price for War or something.
VorDaj on November 25, 2012 at 10:15 PM
You know the US is paying out the wazoo for the villagers that were killed and for any collatoral damage, I would sue the Afghan government if I were a family member. Any Afghan in the vicinity of coalition soldiers should have weapons trained on them constantly.
Russ86 on November 25, 2012 at 10:20 PM
Muslim allies.
The oxymoron of the century.
profitsbeard on November 25, 2012 at 10:24 PM
What is going on here is a national shame. Our finest deserve much better, from their country and their chain of command.
Hog Wild on November 25, 2012 at 10:25 PM
the concept of US and Afghanis training side by side briefs well, but sucks in application.
ted c on November 25, 2012 at 10:35 PM
Obama,Panetta, Petraeus, Allen and etc.
Recall that when Panetta visits the Soldiers have to disarm…out of “respect” for the Afghani 3rd century wild ones.
The US is NO longer a sane land.
Schadenfreude on November 25, 2012 at 10:42 PM
NOT INSANE
Joe Biden’s 2016 slogan.
By then, that will seem like a relief.
profitsbeard on November 25, 2012 at 10:57 PM
True. If we kill a cow we have to pay. That’s how it was in Iraq as well. The extreme and disgusting waste of our tax dollars sees no end. We will leave, just like the Soviets before us, and the Brits before them and Alexander The Great before them. All empires get their asses kicked one way or another in Afghanistan.
MoreLiberty on November 26, 2012 at 7:12 AM