Our troops in Afghanistan are tired of being targets that can't shoot back. This is another under reported scandal, and it makes you wonder how such tactics, and attempts to negotiate with the enemy before victory, could ever justify the loss of one young American life.
"I don't think the military leaders, president or anybody really cares about what we're going through," said Spc. Matthew "Silver" Fuhrken, 25, from Watertown, N.Y. "I'm sick of people trying to cover up what's really going on over here. They won't let us do our job. I don't care if they try to kick me out for what I'm saying -- war is war and this is no war. I don't know what this is."
"If we walk away, cut a deal with the Taliban, desert the people who needed us most, then this war was pointless," said Pvt. Jeffrey Ward, with 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, who is stationed at Forward Operating Base Bullard in southern Afghanistan.
"Everyone dies for their own reasons but it's sad to think that our friends, the troops, have given their lives for something we're not going to see through."
Read more at the Washington Examiner:
Troops chafe at restrictive rules of engagement, talks with Taliban | Washington Examiner
