May 26, 2012
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Military police are conducting an investigation into reports that the two Swedish military officers and their local interpreter killed on Sunday west of Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan were attacked by a police officer.
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condulness to the families of Swedish soldiers and my Afghan county boy
Insurgents in uniforms-nothing new, all soldiers expect that to happen.
This is a full scale war, what do you expect???
Afghans hates everybody there, and they have all the reasons to do that.
May God rest their brave souls, may God be with their families.
Another point is the NATO forces will cover, for good old propagandistic reasons, all mistakes made by allied troops.
All of this means not so much, now, for those 2 brave soldiers who are dead.
Sweden has around 500 or so troops. Not enough for their area so hopefully the US or Germany or Norway either send troops or trained Afghans to aid them.
I think it's a brave thing what Sweden is doing since it's not a NATO nation but it has to be realistic about the situation. This is war. If the people don't want it, speak your mind and let it be known. Don't just ignore the mission cause it's serious.
ofcourse its a sad story for the familys..
but have we forgotten its a warzone that they chose to be involved and participate in the worlds most life threatning job!!!
patroling a land infected with terror what do you expect a HERO approach..
there british soldiers dying almost everyday by ambush assaults ..
my advice get out of there if you want to live long enough...
peace
A lot of mistakes have been made on NATO's watch but the last few months have seemed a determined push by the West to fix the situation.
I can understand that countries like Sweden or the NL or Germany aren't used to seeing troops killed in action especially under the pretense of "humanitarian mission" but Afghanistan is the real deal. This should not be a secret anymore. Even the most peaceful nations like New Zealand or Sweden have to be prepared for combat when simply giving aid to local villagers.
I believe it's a worthy mission and if we withdraw before the Afghans are ready, we are signing their death warrant.
To all of you gungho war mongers...manup. Enlist...and if you cannot, make sure that your children enlist, OK? There, that should cure your big mouths. I am dead certain that all of that bravado and living room courage will evaporate into thin air at the sight of any real battleground.