{"id":29293,"date":"2012-03-28T11:59:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T15:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29293"},"modified":"2012-03-28T11:59:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T15:59:47","slug":"panetta-denies-trend-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29293","title":{"rendered":"Panetta denies “trend” in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Army Times<\/a> reports that Leon Panetta wants the American public to ignore the elephant in the room in regards to the recent spate of murders of Americans and NATO troops in Afghanistan by suicide gun men;<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday that the killing of U.S. and NATO troops by Afghans are sporadic incidents and do not represent a trend that should derail ongoing negotiations with the Afghans on night raid operations and other issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“There are going to be those that are vengeful, there are going to be those that decide to use this as a way to express their anger and their concern,” Panetta said. “These still are sporadic incidents, and I don’t think they reflect any kind of broad pattern.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah. Sporadic. That’s it. Nine killed in the last few weeks is sporadic. I guess compared to the larger picture, it could be sporadic. But, they could also be considered common incidents, or you might say that the incidents occur more often than we’d like. But to wave them off as “sporadic” is ignoring the problem.<\/p>\n

Here’s another “sporadic” effort from Fox News<\/a>. Afghans have arrested 16 people in a plot to explode 16 buses with 16 suicide vests which were accidentally discovered moments before the buses were to be loaded with Afghan soldiers. The terrorists who were arrested were ANA soldiers themselves.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that the attack would have killed scores of ANA soldiers, applying the Panetta Rule, it would have been just one incident and thus, sporadic. So let those guys go, the 16 who were arrested. It was just a sporadic incident, and so, not significant.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Kevin for the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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