Pat Dollard

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Excerpted from today’s “Deep Thoughts”:

Just hung up with my embassy/military source in Kabul. The bomb this morning was a vbied, a car bomb. A handful of innocent local Afghans were the only KIA, and about 100 others were wounded as the car, which was trying to hit a NATO building, was stopped by the massive concrete blastwalls. It was not a complex attack, no coordination with small arms or rpg teams. It was a typically bizarre and feeble attempt to fill the streets with fear to keep people home on election day.

His other takes on the general state of the war:

The Afghan war is not going well because the USMC now has to do the job NATO cowards let fester by not actually fighting Taliban, just as the USMC had to do the job the Army didn’t do in Iraq for the same reasons. Years later, we are now blessed with a much more aggressive, battle-seasoned army of git ‘er dun soldiers.

Quotes:

“You think the Army was bad in the early days of Iraq? Imagine the Dutch and everyone else in NATO”.

“The Marines are going into uncharted territory, taking towns and villages never taken, cos the Brits were too scared to, and have lost the war just as they lost it in Basra.”

From my point of view, based on this and a lot of other input, we are seeing the same story I saw first hand, and was wounded repeatedly by the repercussions of, that I saw in Iraq: fob-dwelling coward generals and troops let an insurgency grow, and then American kids with guns, particularly in the United States Marine Corps, come in and save the day, at a cost that the average person just will never be able to understand.