US Army In Afghanistan

Some soldiers on a mountain top in Afghanistan engage Taliban with machine gun fire.

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[iDJLaMark]

Compare US Soldiers

To

UK

Poland

German

Or anyother European Union Country

Is that they act like kids. No sense in what they are doing

[CellarDoorVI]

Compare US soldiers to any of those countries, and US troops actually FIGHT.

The US military is superior to that of the combined forces of EU in every regard, and that includes the quality of training.

In fact, only 2.7% of the entire EU's forces are equipped, trained, and ready to be deployed.

If this video was of British, Polish, or German troops, they'd just be hiding in a base and asking for Americans to come protect them.

European soldiers are inferior, period.

[babsaloops]

thats very immature the British and dutch have been fighting tooth and nail along side the u.s and i hold the firm belief that many american troops would disagree strongly with what your saying i am sure that the a us soldier would rather fight alongside a royal marine than you

[CellarDoorVI]

Lol it's not immature it's a fact.

The rest of the NATO troops just hide in bases and rely upon US air support. The US is the only country conducting routine, large-scale combat operations.

And what you just said about US soldiers wanting to fight with Royal Marines is a load of crap. Your media brainwashes the hell out of you.

[IIIcoreyIII]

Geeze you guys seem so calm. I would be like crap crap crap crasp omg omg omg lol.

[CellarDoorVI]

I'm sure that if you were shot at every day for a 6-15 month deployment, you'd probably get used to it.

[ThumbWarDestroyer]

The great thing about pulling back from Iraq is that it will allow the Army to secure Afghanistan once and for all. A major US offensive like Operation Anaconda is needed, in my opinion.

[komodo9091]

hoooooaaaah

[nextlevel2burittos]

how are you soppsed to fight with so much empty space bettween??? it's like 3/4 mile or more

[lesdoyle2000]

1995 UNOCAL sign agreement for pipeline with Turkmenistan

1996 – 2001 Enron Gives Taliban Millions in Effort to Get Afghan Pipeline Built

1997 Taliban visit UNOCAL in Texas

1997 Halliburton (Cheney CEO) gets a contract for exploration in the Caspian Sea basin

1998 UNOCAL annouced that it quit the pipeline project due to Afghan instability

1999 Pentagon “Oil conflicts over production facilities & transport routes, in the Caspian regions”

2000 Bush Cheney elected

[lesdoyle2000]

@MercenarySlick

Your right the Taliban didn't exist till 1994

The Spring of 1994 was when the first action by the Taliban occured.

A Kandahari warlord had abducted two girls and kept them at his military base where they were being gang-raped. Thirty talibs (talib means student) with 16 automatic rifles attacked, freed the girls and executed the warlord by hanging him on a tank barrel. They got a lot of arms from that raid.

[lesdoyle2000]

CIA director William Casey backed a plan by Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, to recruit people from around the world to join the Afghan jihad. More than 100,000 Islamic militants were trained in Pakistan between 1986 and 1992, in camps overseen by the CIA and Britain's MI6, with the British SAS trained future al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in bomb-making and other black arts. Their leaders were trained at a CIA camp in Virginia.

[lesdoyle2000]

1919 Afghan Independence

1979 Jul 3 - 1992 CIA operation Cyclone to destabilise the Afghan Government.

1979 Dec - 1988 Afghan-USSR war

1986–1992 CIA trained Taliban and Al-Qaeda leaders at a CIA camp in Virginia.

British SAS trained them at bomb making

CIA, SAS and ISI supported the rise of the Taliban

1991 CIA looses support of Osama Bin Laden when America puts troops into Saudi Arabia

1996 Taliban take control of Afghanistan

2001 The Talibans biggest benefactor was US.

[BradleyBrantner]

I look through these comments and all I see is hatred..WW3 is definitely around the corner..you people make me sick.

[SectorSos]

@CellarDoorVI That is not true. I am a soldier, currently fighting in Afghanistan. Been on few patrols with canadian and brithish soldiers. Their are some good folks, who are willing to fight 'till the end with you.

[mikeplay007]

@MercenarySlick Are you fucked up, or what? Who you think SOVIETS were fighting against in Afganistan? AGAINST same islamic extremism what USA fighting it now, and NOW US and European solders dieing from the hends of same terrorists, SOVIETS were fighting and your fucking USA was helping them. SHUT UP.

[MercenarySlick]

@mikeplay007 You're Russian aren't you?

That explains it. Soviet-era propaganda was so strong that you actually think the USSR tried to "liberate" Afghanistan even though the Soviets were there before the Mujaheddin was formed.

[mikeplay007]

@MercenarySlick You, sick IDIOTS, USSR was in Afganistan to liberate Afganistan from the terrorists. USSR was asked by Afgan Democratice Government to help them from islam extremists, wich were sponsored by USA. People like you not able to think anymore, you are mentally inslaved by propaganda, but that's a fact. read some books you idiot, even Americans not deny this any more wake up you, moron.