August 2009
As Afghanistan prepares for an election, reporter Sean Smith joins the troops on Operation Panther's Claw. He finds them frustrated at the inexperience and lack of discipline of the A...
August 2009
As Afghanistan prepares for an election, reporter Sean Smith joins the troops on Operation Panther's Claw. He finds them frustrated at the inexperience and lack of discipline of the Afghan National Army. Operation Panther's Claw has just begun. Objective: secure a small part of Helmand province, the Taliban heartland, before the Afghan elections. For the Black watch Regiment, they're facing not only an elusive and powerful foe, but a reluctant Afghan Army. 'They've searched these in two minutes' says Captain Brown as the ANA search homes for a Taliban arms cache. Tensions between the two armies are boiling over into open conflict. 'They are inherently idle' says Captain Brown. In Babaji the area is still far from safe. Metal detectors pick up Improvised Explosive Devices, the IED's that have killed more British soldiers this year than bullets. 'All the governments who've been in power till this moment couldn't bring peace' says an old man 'It's even worse now'. The Ministry of defence will, in time, claim Panthers Claw a success - unofficially estimating 230 enemy deaths. Yet after weeks embedded with the Black Watch, Sean Smith saw no evidence of Taliban dead. Operation Panther's Claw cost the lives of 10 British soldiers. It's success will be measured on Thursday, when the country goes to the polls.
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those afghan guard was fall asleep was a useless because they didnt even step in the secondary school their manners was nothing this campaign was losing if those afghan army was like that there is no decipline.
I'm not a soldier and to be quite honest dont agree with the war but if i was a brit and seen the afghani a sleep when he should of been on watch at night i would of lost it and then he smiled,as far as i know faling a sleep on watch is a very serious thing and in war couldbe shot, no wonder the brits are loosing faith
its the same as all afghans,they are fucking useless,always high and don't give a fuck about anything.thats why their country is so shit because they dont give a fuck about anything.
Regardless of what troops feel about the war, the right decision has to be made and not the popular one. What matters is what's the right thing to do.
The right thing to do is leave. I don't want to see another NATO soldier die defending a corrupt puppet regime from an enemy that seems unbeatable.
We can either leave now and accomplish hardly anything or spend millions more dollars and hundreds more lives in the future and still achieve hardly anything
i understand wheree ur coming from but in my opinion theres a couple of things wrong with that comment if the taliban was in ur country doing the exact same things as they do to the afghani women and children, wouldnt u want other countries to help? also how can u be so sure whats gonna happen in the future? lastly all successful events and humans achieved by believing, sadly negativity is stronger than positivity
@bannanahomie, of course I'd want other countries to help but all over the world there are civil unrest and wars. If that's the reason we stay in Affghanistan then, by that logic, we should be helping all other countries too!
Just because some think NATO win, it doesn't mean NATO.
The Taliban simply want Afghanistan back to the Afghans and not to foreign invaders. it can be solved with a diplomatic settlement with moderate elements of the Taliban.
i can see ur not the sharpest tool in the shed so ill explain not all afghanis in the ANA and ANP would flip to the taliban in an instant like you said, after all they could be looking to exact revenge or rescuing their country from terrorists... plus how can u be so sure that all afghani soldiers are hopeless? unless you've seen everyone of them in action another helpless victim fallen prey to the media
@bannanahomie i never said ALL would flip to the Taliban or that ALL are hopeless i said most and thats what ANA commanders say and British and American trainers say,you still haven't told me how i was stereotypical you seem to say things without basis.... trolling maybe?
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Regardless of what troops feel about the war, the right decision has to be made and not the popular one. What matters is what's the right thing to do.
The right thing to do is leave. I don't want to see another NATO soldier die defending a corrupt puppet regime from an enemy that seems unbeatable.
We can either leave now and accomplish hardly anything or spend millions more dollars and hundreds more lives in the future and still achieve hardly anything
if the taliban was in ur country doing the exact same things as they do to the afghani women and children, wouldnt u want other countries to help? also how can u be so sure whats gonna happen in the future?
lastly all successful events and humans achieved by believing, sadly negativity is stronger than positivity
Just because some think NATO win, it doesn't mean NATO.
The Taliban simply want Afghanistan back to the Afghans and not to foreign invaders. it can be solved with a diplomatic settlement with moderate elements of the Taliban.
not all afghanis in the ANA and ANP would flip to the taliban in an instant like you said, after all they could be looking to exact revenge or rescuing their country from terrorists... plus how can u be so sure that all afghani soldiers are hopeless? unless you've seen everyone of them in action
another helpless victim fallen prey to the media