Posted by
Brian Peters on Sunday, September 06, 2009 8:22:10 PM
If I was a Taliban intel officer, I would be sipping my tea in delight, watching and reading this headline:
US-German rift emerges over Afghan deaths case
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_afghanistan
From the story: " KABUL – An airstrike by U.S. fighter jets that appears to have killed
Afghan civilians could turn into a major dispute for NATO allies
Germany and the United States, as tensions began rising between them
Sunday over Germany's role in ordering the attack."
From the story, this is what happened in a nutshell: "Afghan officials say up to 70 people were killed in the early morning airstrike Friday in the northern province of Kunduz after Taliban militants stole two tanker trucks of fuel and villagers gathered to siphon off gas."
Now, for really, what reason would the Taliban have to 'steal' trucks full of gas?? Unless they were planning on using them as VBED's, they probably had what happened in mind as a back up plan if it was not the original plan. Steal some gas trucks, if we get away with it fine, we'll blow them somewhere. Otherwise, use them as bait to draw in the infidel to cause mass casualties among the civilian population, which is what happened. Germany is not to be blamed, the U.S. is not to be blamed, it's the Taliban for executing that operation against civilians. The Coalition (ISAF) got suckered by the Taliban.
The blame game about NATO rules using air power is heresy in the court of common sense. It's a war, continue to fight it like a police action and these kinds of incidents will continue and our enemies will profit from it from continued civilian casualties to be propagandized against us. Time for NATO to take the gloves off and for the NATO politicians to just get out of the way and wait for the Generals to tell you it's safe to come back now. If not...the Graveyard of Empires is going to fill with a few more Nations.