OMG! Pompeo is a fucking cold hearted bastert. Nothing about American sacrifices.

[kpete]

Asked about the Taliban killing Americans throughout the negotiations, @SecPompeo says, “You should know in the last ten days we've killed over a thousand Taliban.”

Link to tweet

“The Pentagon identified the U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan on Thursday as a U.S. Army paratrooper.

Sgt. 1st Class Elis Angel Barreto Ortiz of Morovis, Puerto Rico, was killed in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sept. 5 as a result of a “vehicle borne improvised explosive device,” 82nd Airborne Division spokesman Lt. Col Mike Burns confirmed in an email to American Military News.

Barreto was a Maintenance Control Sergeant with Company H, 82nd Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. He had enlisted in the Army in 2010 and graduated from Airborne School in 2017.

His awards and decorations include the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Army Achievement Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Army Good Conduct Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Combat Action Badge, the Basic Parachutist Badge, the Army Driver and Mechanic Badge,” the press release noted.

Barreto is survived by a wife and children.”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/09/pentagon-identifies-us-army-paratrooper-killed-in-taliban-car-bombing/

[Hokie]

1. They don't consider a Puerto Rican to be an American NT

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[blm]

2. They don't consider 90% of Americans to be human beings.

They only see us as labor or as consumers. In this case, as expendable war fodder.

[Cosmocat]

3. No problem at all to right wingers who scream how BHO (and democrat)

hates the troops!

Why the troops mostly believe this is beyond reason.

[keithbvadu2]

4. "...in the last ten days we've killed over a thousand Taliban."

"...in the last ten days we've killed over a thousand Taliban.”

If we're doing so well, we should not have to negotiate.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Pompeo's sensitivities reveal his priorities.

Defending the indefensible is tough work.

What Afghanistan used to be, before the Soviet invasion (followed by American intervention on behalf of anti-communist Mujahedin):

https://www.businessinsider.com/astonishing-photos-of-prewar-afghanistan-show-everyday-life-in-peaceful-kabul-2013-2#-38