Afghanistan | Walking Into An Ambush

I knew we shouldn't be invading Iraq in 2003 and though I hated the Taliban I didn't really think we should have invaded Afghanistan(other than going in to pluck out Osama Bin Ladin). Years later it's turning into another pointless meatgrinder.
Here's McClatchy's excellent combat reporter Jonathan S. Landay who barely made it out of an ambush that took 4 American marines, 8 Aghan soldiers and an interpreter:

'We're pinned down:' 4 U.S. Marines die in Afghan ambush

"..Four U.S. Marines were killed Tuesday, the most U.S. service members assigned as trainers to the Afghan National Army to be lost in a single incident since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. Eight Afghan troops and police and the Marine commander's Afghan interpreter also died in the ambush and the subsequent battle that raged from dawn until 2 p.m. around this remote hamlet in eastern Kunar province, close to the Pakistan border..."

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