“What you shooting at, Hoss?”

On Sunday February 20, 2010, The New York Times' writer C.J. Chivers, did a military analysis of the current situation in Afghanistan. Sharky&Sharky think that this is another situation in which the American citizen is being financially hosed to the tune of billions and the American soldiers are being wounded and killed due to little Afghanistan National Army support:

U.S. Fatalities in and around Afghanistan

Country of Death ......................................Fatalities
Afghanistan ...................................................880
Germany (from wounds in theatre) .................... 12
Pakistan........................................................   15
USA (from wounds in theatre)...........................   17
Uzbekistan ...................................................     1
Total ............................................................ 925

On the battlefied at Marja, Chiver's noted:

1. No Afghan soldier used a map or planned a complicated patrol
2. Afghan officers organized no indirect fire support
3. The ANA provided no battlefield resupply ( probably to busy smoking dope)
4. In battles the Afghan soldiers did not aim; they would point in the rough direction of the incoming fire and pulled off rounds without sighting.
5. The Afghani soldiers' rifles muzzles were often elevated several degrees high of any visible target.

The US Marines would often shout at the these Afgani clown soldiers (remember these are the warriors that allegedly defeated Alexander and the Russians). “What you shooting at, Hoss?” one Marine yelled during a long battle on the second day, as an Afghan pulled the trigger repeatedly and nonchalantly at nothing that was visible to anyone else.

Sharky&Sharky thought that commiting to taking out the Taliban in Afghanistan was a good thing that Barry had decided to do. Events are proving us and Barry wrong. It appears that the Afgani soldiers do not want any harm to befall the Taliban.

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