Taliban raids US Afghan base in US uniforms

[Quantum Windbag]

I find it mind boggling that an attack that managed to take down more US aircraft in a single day than anything since Vietnam is not the leading story on all the newscasts.

An audacious Taliban attack on a heavily fortified base in southern Afghanistan did far more damage than initially reported, destroying or severely damaging eight attack jets in the most destructive single strike on Western matériel in the 11-year war, military officials said Sunday.
While other attacks have caused greater loss of life, the assault late Friday at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, one of the largest and best-defended posts in Afghanistan, was troubling to NATO because the attackers were able to penetrate the base, killing two Marines and causing more than $200 million in damage. “We’re saying it’s a very sophisticated attack,” said a military official here. “We’ve lost aircraft in battle, but nothing like this.”
The complex attack, which NATO officials said was conducted by three tightly choreographed teams of militants wearing American Army uniforms, was a reminder that the Taliban remain capable of serious assaults despite the “surge” offensive against them. Now the offensive is over, and nearly 10,000 American Marines have left Helmand Province, a critical stronghold for the Taliban, over the past several months.
Together with a rash of attacks by Afghan security forces against NATO troops — including two over the weekend that left at least six coalition service members dead — the Taliban have put new pressure on the American withdrawal plan, which calls for accelerated troop pullouts through 2014 while training Afghan forces to take over.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/w...nue.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www

 

[Jroc]

Fuck Hamid Karzai and Afghanistan, let Karzai fend for himself. Obama has made the situation worst, we should just get the hell out. Theres not many news stories on this because our great leader Obama is running the show…Pathetic

 

[The Professor]

Fuck Hamid Karzai and Afghanistan, let Karzai fend for himself. Obama has made the situation worst, we should just get the hell out. Theres not many news stories on this because our great leader Obama is running the show…Pathetic

If they ever check the lip prints on Obama’s bony derriere, the will find traces of DNA for Chris Matthews, Anderson Cooper, Rachael Maddow, Arianna Huffington and the rest of their colleagues in the liberal MSM.

If Joseph Pulitzer were alive today, he would not believe how the press has degenerated into nothing more than a propaganda machine for one of the most corrupt and incompetent administration in all of history. Pulitzer know that only unbiased, alert and aggressive media could protect the citizens of this country, Here are two of my favorite Pulitzer quotes:

"There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy. Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away. Publicity may not be the only thing that is needed, but it is the one thing without which all other agencies will fail."

“Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together … An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mold the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.”

I am convinced there is not one single problem this country has, whether it is with the economy, education, crime or international relations, which would not be quickly resolved if our media were dedicated, honest and diligent. Unfortunately, there is no chance of that happening any time soon.

 

[Claudette]

I find it mind boggling that an attack that managed to take down more US aircraft in a single day than anything since Vietnam is not the leading story on all the newscasts.

An audacious Taliban attack on a heavily fortified base in southern Afghanistan did far more damage than initially reported, destroying or severely damaging eight attack jets in the most destructive single strike on Western matériel in the 11-year war, military officials said Sunday.
While other attacks have caused greater loss of life, the assault late Friday at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, one of the largest and best-defended posts in Afghanistan, was troubling to NATO because the attackers were able to penetrate the base, killing two Marines and causing more than $200 million in damage. “We’re saying it’s a very sophisticated attack,” said a military official here. “We’ve lost aircraft in battle, but nothing like this.”
The complex attack, which NATO officials said was conducted by three tightly choreographed teams of militants wearing American Army uniforms, was a reminder that the Taliban remain capable of serious assaults despite the “surge” offensive against them. Now the offensive is over, and nearly 10,000 American Marines have left Helmand Province, a critical stronghold for the Taliban, over the past several months.
Together with a rash of attacks by Afghan security forces against NATO troops — including two over the weekend that left at least six coalition service members dead — the Taliban have put new pressure on the American withdrawal plan, which calls for accelerated troop pullouts through 2014 while training Afghan forces to take over.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/w...nue.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www

Another reason to get the hell out of Astan.

Leave that shithole to the Taliban.