Current Events
<U.S. Special Forces are frustrated.</> Kicking down doors and frisking women, they say, is no way to win hearts and minds in Afghanistan. A report from the front. “Those guys (82nd Airborne) were crazy,” said one Special Forces NCO who was there. “We just couldn’t believe they were acting that way. Every time we turned around they were doing something stupid. We’d be like, ‘Holy s—t, look at that! Can you believe this!’ ” Another said: “They were acting like bin Laden was hiding behind every door. That just wasn’t the way to be acting with civilians.” Special Forces working in the region say that since Mountain Sweep, the stream of friendly intelligence on weapons caches, mines and terrorist activity has dried up.” This is the sort of thing we used to read that the Taliban did. I guess the Afghanis are having a hard time “getting used to it”. May need a bunch more “goodies”. Sure doesn’t seem to be a way to fight any war where you cannot occupy the entire countryside. A price will ultimately be paid in American lives through resistance from civilians. Seems to work for Franks and his boss, though. Sad. Arf
