America’s Army Betrayed in Afghanistan by Presidents and Generals
Michael Walsh
February 18, 2020 Updated: February 19, 2020
Commentary
Sept. 11, 2001, was a dark day in American history, with nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and a sizable chunk of lower Manhattan reduced to smoking rubble.
Within weeks, the United States rallied, drove the Islamic Taliban in Afghanistan from power, and sent Osama bin Laden and his warriors scattering for safety across the globe, there to meet death at the hands of U.S. special forces wherever and whenever they’ve been found. By December, the Afghan War was effectively over.
And yet … here we are, in February 2020, and the “war†is still dragging on, and still claiming young American lives. Case in point: The deaths on Feb. 8 by “friendly fire†in provincial Nangarhar of two men from the southwest: Staff Sgt. Javier Gutierrez, of San Antonio, Texas, and Staff Sgt. Antonio Rodriguez, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, each 28 years old, and both murdered by an Afghan sergeant—armed and trained by U.S. forces—with the single name of Jawed.
They are just two of some 150 brave U.S. soldiers killed in “green on blue†violence by our erstwhile Afghan “allies.†Gutierrez, a Green Beret, was newly in the country; Rodriguez, an Army Ranger, was on his 10th tour of duty. Both were members of the Army’s 7th Special Forces Group.
Their needless deaths came as President Donald Trump once again gave the green light for “peace†talks with the Taliban—peace talks that come nearly 19 years after the start of what is now, shamefully, the longest war in American history, as well as one of our greatest military disgraces.
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