Offensive in Afghanistan (Updated)

The worst that could happen to the US Army in Afghanistan is not losing a battle, but losing the trust from the Afghans or, more important, of their own troops. In a battlefield, lose the high moral, and you are screwed.

That’s why the kidnapping of an American soldier, now confirmed by the Talibans, is a hard punch to the American military. He wasn’t kidnapped in the ongoing operation, but that doesn’t matter now. Just the fact that the Talibans were able to make it happen.

It reminds me, kinda, the situation with Gilad Shalit and Israel in Lebanon. Only that this soldier is way farer from home that Shalit.



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