Read through Captain Cat's journey through a few hellish days in backwater Afghanistan and understand a bit better war is not Fox or CNN News, or the movies.
Clown in the Moon*
Am I taking crazy pills? How difficult is it to grasp that all these botched ‘search and kill’ operations carried out by Special Forces (or the CIA) are going to piss people off. Do you need a PhD to get that you are not exactly winning hearts and minds by storming into people’s homes like a bunch of tobacco chewing war-pumped cowboys and arresting or killing the inhabitants, based on what is maybe false information fed to them by their young Afghan ‘advisors’?
What they needed to offload about were these search operations carried out by the US Special Forces, who are being ‘advised’ by one particular young Afghan man. According to the residents of this district as well as those from neighbouring ones, this man is the devil incarnate. |
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