I realize this is never going to happen but at the risk of sounding like a moron I’ll say it anyway. We could be fighting this war until the end of time unless we change tactics. Al-Qaida, the Taliban, whatever have no life other than to eat, sh*t, pray and make bombs. This is all they do. Those four words that I’ve just described basically encompass the whole of their lives. As soon as we kill one of their leaders, two others are ready to take his place.
Now here comes the part where I sound like an idiot. We basically, I would think, have intelligence on the various pockets where these Islamic militants are hiding. Why not blast them to kingdom come with some sort of a mini atomic or nuclear bomb? Again, our current approach isn’t working. I realize the politics involved in making this decision and the fact that because we “need” to be politically correct this will never happen. Nevertheless, I feel it is the correct move.
It has been almost nine years since 9/11/2001. I’m leaving out conspiracy theories for the moment and assuming that the attacks on this country actually came from Osama bin Laden. Yet unless our government is lying to us; which wouldn’t be the first cover-up in history (Kennedy assassination) bin Laden is still alive. Now I realize this guy is not stupid, but can someone explain to me how after several billion dollars spent on the war, the deployment of tens of thousands of men, the most sophisticated weaponry in the history of mankind; and we can’t find an Arab with nothing more than a rifle, a laptop and a video recorder? Something just isn’t right.
Bottom line, I say we we either nuke them or pick up our toys and come home!
With all the money and resources being wasted in Afghanistan, not to mention Iraq which is a completely different animal, we could instead protect our airports, seaports, subways and malls (our citizens) from the terrorists. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan – A Taliban suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital Tuesday, killing six troops — five Americans and one Canadian, officials said. Twelve Afghan civilians also died — many of them on a public bus in rush-hour traffic.
The powerful blast occurred on a major Kabul thoroughfare that runs by the ruins of a one-time royal palace and government ministries. It wrecked nearly 20 vehicles, including five SUVs in the NATO convoy, and scattered debris and body parts across the wide boulevard. The body of woman in a burqa was smashed against the window of the bus.
The attack — the deadliest for NATO troops in the capital since September — comes despite a ramped up effort by Afghan authorities to intercept would-be attackers and better secure a capital city that saw a spate of brazen attacks this winter.
In the last such attack in February, suicide bombers stormed two small downtown hotels and killed 16 people.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in a phone call from an undisclosed location that the bomber was a man from Kabul and his car was packed with 1,650 pounds (750 kilograms) of explosives. The target of the attack was the foreign convoy, he said.
U.S. troops and Afghan police held a security cordon around wrecked vehicles at the blast site in the west of the city. Emergency workers zipped the dead into body bags and lifted the injured into ambulances.
“I saw one person laying on the ground with no head,” said Mirza Mohammad, who was on his way to work when the blast happened up the road.
Police officer Wahidullah, who goes by one name, said he saw the body of woman in a burqa smashed up against the window of the bus.
“Everywhere was dead bodies,” Wahidullah said. At least 12 Afghan civilians died and 47 were wounded — most of them in the bus, the Interior Ministry said.
U.S. forces spokesman Col. Wayne Shanks said five American service members were killed in the attack, and the Canadian government said one of its service members also died.
It was the deadliest attack for NATO in the capital since a September suicide bombing that killed six Italian soldiers. The attack comes as NATO readies a major offensive in the southern province of Kandahar, a major Taliban stronghold.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen condemned the attack and said it would not deter NATO’s efforts in Afghanistan.
“NATO remains committed to its mission to protect the Afghan people and to strengthen Afghanistan’s ability to resist terrorism,” Rasmussen said in Brussels.
President Hamid Karzai also condemned the attack.
“There were casualties among the NATO forces as well as among civilians — women, children and schoolchildren,” Karzai told a news conference.
NATO said that five of its vehicles were damaged as well as more than a dozen civilian vehicles. There were no obvious military vehicles among the wreckage, but NATO troops often travel in unmarked SUVs in the capital.
The Feb. 26 attack against two residential hotels in the capital killed six Indians, along with 10 Afghans. Afghan authorities blamed the attack on Lashkar-e-Taiba, the same Pakistan-based Islamist militia that India blames for the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed 166 people.
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Associated Press writers Heidi Vogt in Kabul and Slobodan Lekic in Brussels contributed to this report.
