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enhanced_deficit
06-23-2017, 10:38 AM
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Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan Return To US In ‘Very Emotional’ Ceremony

By Corey Dickstein, Stars and Stripes
on June 14, 2017

They were sons and husbands, fathers and brothers. They were soldiers hailed as “heroes” and “amazing” young men, each a volunteer who chose an Army job that would place them on the front lines.
The bodies of Sgt. Eric M. Houck, Sgt. William M. Bays and Cpl. Dillon C. Baldridge were returned to the United States late Monday after an Afghan soldier turned his gun on them in an apparent insider attack Saturday in eastern Afghanistan’s restive Nangarhar province, where they were assisting in the battle against Islamic State terrorists.

American and Afghan officials said an Afghan commando killed the three 101st Airborne Division soldiers while they were conducting an operation in the Peka Valley, where U.S. and Afghan forces have been battling ISIS for months. The Taliban has claimed one of their insurgents infiltrated the Afghan military in order to kill foreign servicemembers, though the Pentagon has not confirmed those details, citing an investigation into the incident.

Their deaths come as the United States weighs its future in Afghanistan, where after nearly 16 years of war — the longest in American history — top Pentagon officials characterize it as “a stalemate” with the Taliban
“We are not winning in Afghanistan,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday morning when he was pressured by the committee’s chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., about the war’s future.

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asurfaholic
06-23-2017, 02:44 PM
Why would we be at war with the taliban?

When you have no clear enemy or goals then of course its a stalemate in a 16 year war.