Three U.S. soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

KABUL | Sun Aug 11, 2013 9:16am EDT

(Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in Afghanistan's eastern borderlands on Sunday, U.S. and NATO officials said.

The soldiers were killed by insurgents in the province of Paktia, the officials told Reuters.

(Reporting by Dylan Welch; Editing by Mike Collett-White)


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/11/us-afghanistan-attack-idUSBRE97A06X20130811

[SHRED]

1. They died for what?

What cause?

[heaven05]

2. Osama

bin laden is dead. That was the original reason(lie) our troops invaded on. Wasn't it? No reason to be there. No reason for our, any troops to be dying in that quagmire. geez.

[madokie]

3. Agree

No reason whatsoever.
Well I guess there is to the people who are shielded from having to partake, you know the 1%'rs who hope to reap some of the riches of the vast quantities of Afghanistans natural resources. Those people or their spawn are not the ones who are being killed there. They're also the people who make the decision to engage in wars when it comes right down to it.

[heaven05]

4. 10-4

on the 1%ers and their spawn. Oil from Iraq + vast amount of natural resources in Afghanistan, I've read =die american soldier. There is enough natural resource on this planet to be shared by every country(nation)in this world. Greed and power to enforce that greed, bad mix. We'll see if this drawdown(withdrawal) takes place.

[KG]

7. a lie. the reason most soldiers die.

[jasond54231]

10. They died for the well being of the corporate elite in this country

Honestly, it's time we pull out of Afghanistan completely. We're wasting time there.

[burnsei sensei]

5. 3 more reasons

to get the fuck out of Afghanistan.

[blueknight]

6. someone please tell me again

WHY IN THE FUCK ARE WE STILL THERE?

[lyonn]

8. I'm thinking blueknight????

Nope, no reason to be there. Makes stomach turn with each death and injuries in that country.....

[democrank]

9. Bring our troops home and replace them with

all the war enablers...from both parties.

[liam_laddie]

11. "Return of a King:The Battle For Afghanistan 1839-1842"

A book worth reading by William Dalrymple, pub. April 2013, Knopf, ISBN 978-0-307-95828-0.
About the First Anglo-Afghan War. Fighting the SAME tribes, families, sects in the SAME regions that we're mired in today, 175 years later. Except that it took only three years, not ten and counting, for the British, Sikhs and other royal troops to have their asses handed to them by the locals. In fact, Hamid Karzai is related to or is a direct descendant of the dominant leader of the fractious tribes of that era. The SAME families! The SAME cities...Herat, Kabul, Kandahar...as today.
Those 19th-century failed policies and strategies, promoted by the "elite" in England and their dreams of empire, were damn near identical to the plans sold to us by the arrogant, delusional, ideology-driven, "brilliant minds" of the mainly Ivy League-spawned experts like Feith, Wolfowitz, various Kagans, Boot, and their bosses like Rumsfeld, Cheney and a host of like enablers, most if not all of whom NEVER served in the military, but who conned politicians into waging a useless war to feed egos and their moneybags M-I Complex cronies. It is beyond belief that we have literally thrown away so many lives and so much treasure on such a delusion.
This country is beyond redemption, I'm afraid. I had hoped that Obama's mind was better than his abysmal record in foreign policy indicates. Such tragedy!

[burnsei sensei]

14. Thank you.

This area of history is one I find extremely interesting and relevant to the present.

[ConcernedCanuk]

12. USA spreading democracy and peace around the Globe,

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one bomb at a time . . .

(sigh)

CC

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Welcome to the desert of the real