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April 28, 2007
No Mercy
by Tina Grazier
This story, out of the UK, tells how our guys are doing against the enemy. It’s in the Telegraph and is titled “US aircrews show Taliban no mercy”.
Smoke from the ambush they had just sprung on American special forces still hung in the air, but their attention was fixed on the two helicopter gunships that had appeared above them as their leader, the tallest man in the group, struggled to pull what appeared to be a burqa over his head.
By the time the gunships had finished, 21 minutes later, military officials say 14 Taliban were confirmed dead, including one of their key commanders in Helmand. **** The mission is typical of a new, aggressive, approach adopted by American forces in southern Afghanistan and particularly in Helmand, where British troops last year bore the brunt of some of the heaviest fighting since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. **** American commanders believe that the uncompromising use of airpower in recent weeks has been a key factor in preventing the Taliban from launching their expected full-scale spring offensive against coalition forces and forcing them to rethink their tactics.
Of course if you’re a weenie you’ll probably think it’s a hit piece…and that might have been the intent...it does say US aircrews show “no mercy”. No mercy is, however, the perfect attitude to adopt in response to a cruel, murdering, merciless, enemy.
Posted by Post Scripts at April 28, 2007 11:04 PM