31 US troops, mostly elite Navy SEALs, killed in Afghanistan

[Chedot]

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RIP to the fallen Men of the elite DEVGRU and other men in that chopper. .TAPS

[rodsky]

There is an intriguing problem now in the US Defense Department--normally, the names of deceased SEAL operatives are released to the press/public. This time around, since those who died were part of SEAL Team 6 (the team that got bin Laden), there is worry amongst DoD personnel that if the names of these deceased operatives are searched via the internet, then it might lead to the names of the operatives involved in the bin Laden raid (which as of this writing, is still classified information). So the logical thing to do is not to release the names. But there is pressure from the families of the dead operatives to release the names publicly.

Dilemma indeed.

-RODION

[salbahis]

for me i dont felt sorry for this guys, first they are americans, if this is our Marines then i give my whole heart for sympaty... for this, its just a another story about a distant war....

[dbalagosa]

for me i dont felt sorry for this guys, first they are americans, if this is our Marines then i give my whole heart for sympaty... for this, its just a another story about a distant war....

bali ta bro. maluoy ko sa tanan military personnel nga mamatay kay niservice sa ila country. Country lang, ayaw na religion kay manipulative kaayo religion. Whether good side or bad side sila sa war, basta for country, maayo jd binuhatan.

[hulagway]

will naka experience ta ani..diri sa ato..2 or 3 weeks ago..11 or 12 marines including an officer died in an encounter with abu sayyaf.

[salbahis]

bali ta bro. maluoy ko sa tanan military personnel nga mamatay kay niservice sa ila country. Country lang, ayaw na religion kay manipulative kaayo religion. Whether good side or bad side sila sa war, basta for country, maayo jd binuhatan.

im a patriot, thats why i love the soldiers fighting for my country than others who fight for theirs...

[rodsky]

im a patriot, thats why i love the soldiers fighting for my country than others who fight for theirs...

But who are they fighting against?

The sad thing about this is, our soldiers are just fighting against our own people (internal conflict). Yes, you'd say "But these are people who do not want to submit to the laws and government of our republic! They are enemies of the state!" You could be right, but if there is something to be sad about the deaths of these soldiers, is that they died not by the hands of foreign invaders, but by the hands of their own brethren.

-RODION

[sparkolboi]

big loss for US.

[jumper_stage]

dapat tinud-on nani sa US ning afghan

[godwhacker]

dapat tinud-on nani sa US ning afghan

Alexander the Great struggled a lot in his campaign in Afghanistan. In the end it was like a Phyrric victory. And so with the Russians until they pulled out. This time its the Americans but looks like the economic hardships back home would influence a lot in their future activities in Afghanistan. Di lalim pag maintain ug gubat sa Afghanistan dili na barato. It takes billions of US dollars in taxpayer's money to support their troops and equipment in Afghanistan in the name of American interest. And what is this interest? It's the Trans-Afghan pipeline that will carry oil from the Caspian sea region to India via Afghanistan. The taliban said NO! so there will be more fighting.