"The destruction of a US forces helicopter with 38 people on board demonstrates the degree to which the Coalition campaign in Afghanistan has become dependent on special operations raids.
It also effectively marks the loss of an entire squadron of Seal Team 6, the "Tier 1" commando unit that killed Osama Bin Laden in May.
Small bands of nomads or goat herders living in caves don't kill an entire squadron of Seal Team 6... without a little help in the form of intelligence.
This is a strange story and I believe Americans will get a sad parade instead of the facts. Our military and CIA operations are out there running missions and fighting battles and American citizens have no idea what is going on.
Deals made when Bush, Jr./Cheney were in charge still rule the table.
What is to become of our military arm when our body collapses back home..? Does it break off and keep fighting, becoming a pack of powerful nomadic warriors in the middle east working for... who?
This seems like revenge for the death of Osama Bin Laden, but was it a deal... a deal made in hell to placate our upset and grieving Saudi allies?
"Many people involved in the secretive world of special ops were surprised that such a major setback had not taken place before. After all, during 2010, highly trained operators are believed to have mounted between 3,000 and 4,000 raids, almost all of them at night, many against heavy resistance, in terrain than can be extremely dangerous to fly in.
During a recent interview the outgoing commander of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), General David Petraeus, sang the praises of such troops but also suggested that the special ops campaign might be getting too much press attention. But quite apart from the interest generated by the Bin Laden raid, it is evident that these operations play an important part in Nato's drawdown strategy - one could even say a central part."
Some in Congress can now ask... how can we think of leaving Afghanistan, now, like this?
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