Michael Yon reports:
While Axle worked, I asked about times when he “smashed” the Taliban. British soldiers like to use the word “smashed” when talking about the Taliban. When Axle would finish talking about one fight, I would ask about another. Finally, Axle said, “You Yanks are great. You like to hear stories about us smashin’ the Taliban but people at home want to know how much we miss our families.” We both chuckled, and I asked, “Really? They don’t ask you about smashing the Taliban?” “That’s right,” then Axle said something like, “They only want to hear how sad we are.” Axle and I got along great because I didn’t care if he missed his family and he didn’t care if I missed mine. This part is about smashing people who would help those who smashed the World Trade Centers and blew up people in London and Bali and Jakarta and Israel and Spain and the Philippines and anywhere else they can reach. There is a crucial development and governance aspect to this war, and still a crucial smashing side. Sometimes you’ve got to swap hats for helmets. Mullah Omar is still alive, apparently in Pakistan, and he needs to be killed. Just on 20 August I heard a Taliban singing over a walkie talkie that Mullah Omar “Is our leader,” and they were celebrating shooting down a British helicopter only twelve hours before just some miles from here. There will be time to hug families later. Now is a time for fighting.
MoD responds:
Greetings,
The British Ministry of Defence canceled my embed after today’s dispatch. Please Read “Bad Medicine“.
Next Stop U.S. Forces.
Your Writer,
Michael
I like a Brit who wants to smash the Taliban and doesn’t want to whine about how he misses his family. The US MSM and overall left is like that, too – just wants to know how miserable our troops are, etc. Don’t these people understand what a professional soldier does? These are men and women who volunteered – during war time – to don their nation’s uniform. They do what they do because they are the best of the best and all they really want is victory for their nation – especially when its over some inhuman savages like the Taliban. As long as we back people like Axle (and his like in the US military, and other allied forces), we’re going to win because they’ll keep smashing the enemy until he’s dead or taken. It might take a long time; it will take a lot of blood and treasure; it almost certainly will required continually revised tactics…but it will be done, if we – the people – will it so.
But one wonders just what the British Ministry of Defense is really thinking? And how many like that are there in the US Department of Defense? Just who is running the show, and do they want to win?
Meanwhile, kick a few bucks over to Yon as he’s entirely reader-supported.
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