Taliban claims responsibility after US soldier
is killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan
becoming the 20th American to die in
the country this year
Associated Press & Daily Mail (UK),
by
Staff
&
Jack Newman
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/23/2019 5:24:51 PM
An American service member was killed in combat today in Afghanistan, the US military said, and the Taliban have claimed responsibility. The US military did not provide further details on the attack but the Taliban claimed they were behind the roadside bombing in northern Kunduz province that killed the soldier.The latest fatality brings the number of US deaths in Afghanistan this year to 20. There have also been three non-combat deaths in 2019. More than 2,400 Americans have died in the nearly 18-year conflict.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 12/23/2019 5:36:51 PM (No. 270095)
I feel no glee in saying this (and my heart aches for the families of all the dead and wounded heroes), but I think it's time to bomb that country into the Stone Age... ooops… wait... already there. ...back to the Pleistocene...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 12/23/2019 6:29:22 PM (No. 270134)
If you are in a fight, and you do not fight to win, you will be there forever. We should have leveled the country years ago.
18 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Catfur27 12/23/2019 6:49:14 PM (No. 270151)
...so apparently the ASSociated press has re-started publishing the "Death Count of American Soldiers "...after an 8 year Code of Silence under Zippy Hussein Obama ...??...what surprise
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Mike22 12/23/2019 8:03:46 PM (No. 270167)
Afghanistan Allied Deaths
2010 Obama 710
2018 Trump 18
Interesting that the press is concerned about war casualties and homelessness now.........
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
save America 12/23/2019 9:08:35 PM (No. 270183)
I say we take out 100 of these vermin in payback.Merry Christmas.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
hershey 12/23/2019 9:24:11 PM (No. 270189)
Yep, they are good at several things...running around with masks on and shooting their rifles into the air, setting up IEDs to bomb convoys, having sex with goats, beating their wives....stuff like that...
7 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/23/2019 9:35:09 PM (No. 270193)
When it comes to the Taliban it appears that nobody can fix stupid. What would Ghengis Khan have done to rectify the current situation with the Taliban in Afghanistan?
5 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
LoneVoice 12/23/2019 10:51:11 PM (No. 270208)
There is nothing to be gain by staying in Af-crap-istan.
We should teach them identity politics dividing them into ever smaller mutually exclusive tribes dedicated to wiping each other out in the name of social justice. Then we could just leave.
5 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 12/23/2019 11:48:49 PM (No. 270217)
I agree with Trump and others. Let them murder each other while we leave them to their savagery. DJT is correct about trying to modernize the Middle East. Close the borders and hope they can’t get through tp perpetrate another 9-11. I am sorry for the innocent civilians but Afghanistan needs to see what a tactical nuke can do. It may well be the only practical solution and will save lives in the long run.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 12/24/2019 1:26:43 AM (No. 270239)
I'm sure in good Trump fashion that a secret retaliation Alpha Strike is being put together as we sit here. It's time to exterminate the cockroaches. It could be a big Christmas Eve bombing raid on those muthereffers.
Waiting patiently...
4 people like this.
Molten glass. Are we still paying the Afghani's something like $239 a month to like US ?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 12/24/2019 4:54:41 AM (No. 270267)
Here's my take, nuke Afghanistan until every Taliban is dead. Savages.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
GO3 12/24/2019 7:00:05 AM (No. 270296)
It's hard to punish the Taliban when we've been paying them in the past to secure our supply lines. I'd like to know what mensa in the Pentagon dreams up this crap.
4 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/24/2019 9:51:38 AM (No. 270451)
The Solution for the Taliban is the same as ISIS, Kill them all, Let God sort them out! Lucifer will be happy to have more slaves in hell!
5 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
jacksin5 12/24/2019 10:41:58 AM (No. 270488)
First the British Empire, then the Soviet Union, now us. Let's give China a whack at domesticating these savages. At least the money spent on Nikes would go to good use.
2 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
pros7767 12/24/2019 3:21:18 PM (No. 270732)
Amen #15.
Unless and until we decide to fight wars to win them, we have no business going to war. If we had done what we should have after 9/11, Afghanistan would have been leveled!
My deepest sympathies to the family and his beautiful baby girl!
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