A member of the Afghan air force marshals in an A-29 Super Tucano at Hamid Karzai International Airport near Kabul, Afghanistan, January 15, 2016. Picture taken January 15, 2016. To match Special Report USA-AFGHANISTAN/PILOTS U.S. Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Nathan Lipscomb
Reuters: Special Report-Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as U.S. withdraws
KABUL, (Reuters) - Afghan Air Force Major Dastagir Zamaray had grown so fearful of Taliban assassinations of off-duty forces in Kabul that he decided to sell his home to move to a safer pocket of Afghanistan's sprawling capital.
Instead of being greeted by a prospective buyer at his realtor's office earlier this year, the 41-year-old pilot was confronted by a gunman who walked inside and, without a word, fatally shot the real estate agent in the mouth.
Zamaray reached for his sidearm but the gunman shot him in the head. The father of seven collapsed dead on his 14-year-old son, who had tagged along. The boy was spared, but barely speaks anymore, his family says.
Zamaray “only went there because he personally knew the realtor and thought it was safe," Samiullah Darman, his brother-in-law, told Reuters. "We didn’t know that he would never come back."
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WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction. The Taliban are going to show no mercy to those who fought against them and their families should their efforts to take over the country succeed.
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A colonel suggested threatening Taliban leaders in Pakistan in the border area with assassination (night letters). then following up with assassinations if they did not get the hint. IT was considered beyond the pale by liberal asswipes. Somehow using a drone to fire missiles into Pakistan is better. It is expensive, it has collateral damage at times, ...
It am of the firm opinion that if the liberal quotient in your country is high, your country has no business going to war.
night letter
n. A telegram sent at night at a reduced rate for delivery the next morning.
See letter, above.
n. an unsigned leaflet distributed clandestinely
The US has been staying just a little bit longer for two decades -- what good will hanging around do now? Furthermore, it's up to Afghans to decide their fates -- not Americans. The President also implied that the war-torn country had pretty much always been a mess, so if it falls apart again it will be returning to a historic norm.
He rejected parallels with the US defeat in Vietnam, since the goals of the operation -- to deliver Osama bin Laden "to the gates of hell" after the September 11 attacks in 2001 and to crush al Qaeda's operational capacity -- were accomplished. And he made a somewhat contentious argument that Afghan national armed forces trained by the US and its allies were sufficiently strong to repel the Taliban.
Then Biden looked his country in the eye and asked a question that weighs especially heavily on this commander in chief, the first for decades to have had a child who served overseas in a war zone. Would the people who want the US to stay in Afghanistan send their own kids off to combat there?
What would happen to Afghan civilians in a new era under the Taliban, known for repressing women and for an austere brand of Sharia law, is deeply uncertain. But Biden essentially argued that it's not America's problem. He did, however, pledge that Afghan translators who worked with US forces and are now threatened by the Taliban have a home in the US.
"I judged that it was not in the national interests of the United States of America to continue fighting this war indefinitely. I made the decision with clear eyes and I'm briefed daily on the battlefield updates," Biden said.
In other words, he's fulfilling the core duty of any US president -- deciding what is best for his country and no place else -- despite the fact America's choices affect pretty much everyone else.
It's what ex-President Donald Trump might call America First.
'Would you send your own son or daughter?'
Biden explained his decision to pull out of Afghanistan after America's longest war by declaring that it was worth no more American sacrifices -- despite fears he could be abandoning the country to a grim fate if the Taliban take back power.
"Let me ask those who wanted us to stay: How many more, how many thousands more Americans, daughters and sons, were you willing to risk? How long would you have them stay? Already, we have members of our military whose parents fought in Afghanistan 20 years ago. Would you send their children and their grandchildren, as well? Would you send your own son or daughter?
Cue the MASS MIGRATION in 4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . . .
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