Washington Post Says The Forward Base In Afghanistan Where 9 Were Killed Was “Overpowered”
Of course.....they would have that take on it.
In this entire piece the writer never bothers to mention that the small unit of American Airborne troops, along with some Afghanis fought vastly superior numbers of Taliban to a standstill, then drove them away when air support arrived. It doesn’t mention the courage of our guys in that dogfight of a battle.
It just says this:
When insurgents mustered superior numbers and overpowered U.S. and Afghan forces in remote Konar province on July 13, more U.S. soldiers died than were killed by enemy action in all of Iraq during the first three weeks in July.
It also fails to mention that seven of the nine troops we lost were in a small foward listening post, not at the main camp, and that the insurgents targeted them first.
For the story of the fight straight out of the mouths of soldiers who were there, check out this compelling article in Stars and Stripes. Here’s just one quote from it:
“It was some of the bravest stuff I’ve ever seen in my life, and I will never see it again because those guys,” Stafford said, then paused. “Normal humans wouldn’t do that. You’re not supposed to do that — getting up and firing back when everything around you is popping and whizzing and trees, branches coming down and sandbags exploding and RPGs coming in over your head … It was a fistfight then, and those guys held ’ em off.”
Stafford offered a guess as to why his fellow soldiers fought so hard.
“Just hardcoreness I guess,” he said. “Just guys kicking ass, basically. Just making sure that we look scary enough that you don’t want to come in and try to get us.”
Read the whole thing. Both articles, in fact.
See if you think those guys were “overpowered”.
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