Quil Lawrence/NPR: Children stand on the ruined wall of a house in a hamlet in Lower Khasro, Arghandab.
January 31, 2011 - This summer, U.S. troops surged into southern Afghanistan, pushing into Taliban territory and setting off some of the fiercest fighting since the war began.
In the Arghandab River Valley, U.S. soldiers faced Taliban snipers and a plague of landmines and booby-traps that claimed hundreds of American and Afghan lives.
When U.S. troops fought in Arghandab, they had to unlearn one of their most basic instincts: When the took fire, they had to remember not to hit the dirt for cover. Arghandab was so full of homemade land mines — what the military calls IEDs — that lying down on the ground was more dangerous than standing up amid the bullets.
But Arghandab went quiet a couple of months ago, either because the U.S. troop surge finally drove the Taliban out or because the Taliban left, as the dense foliage they used as cover fell away for the winter.
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We know the costs in blood, never to totally in civilians, but what of the costs in treasury still not paid! How much to buy the coalition of the willing, how much to buy the CIA rendition and secret prisons globalizing torture, how much for the decades to come as to the results of both wars, more. Neither has been paid for, rubber stamping and rapid deficit rises started Before 9/11 and nothing as to the peoples responsibility, the VA, as to just one of the needs in those results from!
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In 2003 some 72% of Americans fully supported the Abandoning of the Missions and those Sent to Accomplish so extremely Quickly after 9/11!!At least some 95%, if not more as less then 1% serve them, not only still support the, just below, total lack of Sacrifice, they ran from any and all Accountability and left everything still on the table to be continually used if the political/military want was still in play in future executive/legislative wants!!
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Destruction of Afghan Villages
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