[See “edit” below]
It is like a deadly Groundhog day all over again.
Once more our troops have been “mowed down by the same Afghan military and security forces who we are helping, training, fighting alongside and preparing to ‘stand on their own’ in dastardly ‘green-on-blue’ or ‘insider’ attacks.”
The Stars and Stripes reports:
A man in an Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on the American troops working with him in the country’s east on Saturday, killing three of them, while an attacker with a grenade killed an Italian soldier in the west, officials said… The international military coalition in Afghanistan confirmed that three U.S. service members died in an insider attack but gave few other details.
The Italian soldier was killed and three others wounded in the western province of Farah, “when an attacker lobbed explosives into their armored vehicle in western Afghanistan, Italy’s government said,” according to the Stripes which also says that “[t]he Taliban quickly took responsibility for the attack, with spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi claiming that the attacker [in the west] was an 11-year-old boy.”
I will repeat a comment I made about eight months ago on the “occasion” of the 2,000th death in the Afghanistan “Conflict”:
What is perfectly clear, however, is that we have lost two more American troops in an endless conflict.
A conflict that so relentlessly and heartlessly creates additional Gold Star Mothers almost every day.
A conflict about which the mother of Lance Cpl. Gregory T. Buckley, the 1,990th casualty of the Afghanistan War who was possibly killed by a purported ally, said, “Our forces shouldn’t be there. It should be over. It’s done. No more.”
Edit: The Guardian reports that two US troops and one American civilian were killed in the green-on-blue attack
Lead Image: U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Emilio TherienGonzales, right, positions himself on top of a compound as other Marines look out from behind a wall while trying to locate a shooter near Patrol Base Boldak in Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 3, 2013. (Photo DOD)
