I had to laugh at this, I loved the "The steel desk warriors" line.
I was laughing at the part where Nancy wrote:
"The steel desk warriors at the Pentagon sent Special Forces and Navy Seals on missions to the tops of mountains in Afghanistan where their helicopters were shot down in in an area they were told was
devoid of the enemy."
Hey Nancy, why on earth would we send Special Forces soldiers and Navy SEALS to a place "devoid" of enemy forces?????

That sort of defeats our purpose....
Now as a Special Forces soldier I will tell you that a helicopter infiltration into enemy territory is a risky proposition, but Nancy, that's exactly what we're trained to do, really.
Team Sergeant
(Nancy, you're not related to senator John F. Kerry's are you?)
GHS
Posted Aug 17, 2008 @ 12:56 AM
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We're being told that the surge in Iraq is over and we have achieved victory. The president and the Pentagon are hedging their bets by saying "durability exists" but the "progress is reversible."
We were told we won in Afghanistan when the Taliban were expelled and were replaced with former Unocal Oil Company consultant Hamid Karzai. Today the number of American deaths are the highest they've been since 2001, violence is up by 40 percent, the Taliban are taking over villages without the use of military force and they control 90 percent of the poppy wealth.
Secretary of Defense Gates claims because of this "victory" in Iraq we won't be seeing large scale operations like this again, instead we'll be seeing smaller Special Forces Operations.
The steel desk warriors at the Pentagon sent Special Forces and Navy Seals on missions to the tops of mountains in Afghanistan where their helicopters were shot down in in an area they were told was devoid of the enemy. Our brave forces were then surrounded and attacked by Taliban and Chechen fighters. One Special Forces team leader said all modern technology failed them and he had to go back to fighting wars the old fashioned way, with thinking, pencil and paper.
The old fashioned definition of victory is when the dying of American troops stops and the enemy surrenders. Neither of these have happened in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The war in Vietnam (which both the president and vice president dodged) was televised. We're not seeing any signs of victories now just like we're not seeing any of the coffins coming home.
NANCY T. LINDSAY, Westborough
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/op...fining-victory