Destroyed Afghanistan Village (Shocking Pictures)

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WASHINGTON, DC -- Back in October, the military apparently wiped an Afghan village off the face of the Earth because it was too far gone to save. The story was reported this week. Taliban had run the civilians out of town and so thoroughly booby-trapped the village, Tarok Kolache, that troops felt entering it meant "certain death," Paula Broadwell writes at Foreign Policy. The commander of the Combined Joint Task Force 1-320th, Ltc. David Flynn, said the only way he could give his guys confidence to enter the area and not "lose momentum" was just to bomb the hell out of it.

On the bright side, they are now rebuilding the place. "I literally cringed when we dropped bombs on these places--not because I cared about the enemy we were killing or the HME destroyed, but I knew the reconstruction would consume the remainder of my deployed life," Flynn told Broadwell, a former adviser to Gen. David Petraeus. And in the months since the October bombing, Flynn's team has worked on replanting the pomegranate orchard and rebuilding infrastructure. Villagers will be compensated for their lost houses.

Broadwell and Flynn say there were no civilian casualties because the Taliban had forced villagers from their homes. But the bombing raises troubling questions about our counterinsurgency mission in Afghanistan, which is supposed to value protecting civilians--and earning their trust--above all else.

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[IrreverentEnigma]

LOL guess you shouldn't harbor fugitives and terrorists

[janansparlai]

sober up and read Afghan history.NOBODY defeated the Afghans. from your gay alexander the great to ienglis umphire thieves.yea people come to die in Afghanistan but defeating is something Afghans are unfamiliar with.pussy

[Dinah4life]

hahaha! Stupid Muslim terrorists! Where you gonna live now? Oh wait it doesn't matter you are dead and in hell!

Makes me mad that we are going to rebuild it after how ungrateful the villagers sounded after we routed the terrorists out. WE HELPED YOU GET RID OF MUSLIM TERRORISTS!! Show a little gratitude!

[BrandonHusky]

@dellboy99

ROFL those afghan scum want to start it we will end it by any means necessary the war has to happen someplace so be glad it there and not in your backyard retard XD

[BrandonHusky]

@janansparlai haha looks like someones too pussy to admit defeat XD

[AkioVuadan]

I have an idea! Go around it.

[CHEESYhairyGASH]

pay the troops more, make a career in the military a different proposition to what it is now, demand more intellectual people with greater consideration for culture. attract people with a strong moral compass of what is wrong and what is right, and do not attempt to brainwash them, make it an army full of citizens rather than heavy handed soldiers. this war has created many more enemies then it has killed.