{"id":29524,"date":"2012-04-16T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T13:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29524"},"modified":"2012-04-16T09:30:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T13:30:30","slug":"enemy-inside-the-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29524","title":{"rendered":"Enemy inside the gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it any wonder that PTSD is effecting so many of our troops when folks who were blowing them up a few weeks ago are now inside their perimeter without having to fire another shot? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/foe-to-friend-gis-leery-about-working-with-taliban-defectors-who-wanted-them-dead-1.174518\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> link)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s widely assumed by the soldiers of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, that Massoud killed two of their buddies.<\/p>\n<p>But Capt. Michael Kolton, 29, the company\u2019s commander, won\u2019t ask the former insurgent leader about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to know the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Less than a week after a roadside bomb killed two of Kolton\u2019s men in July, Massoud showed up at his austere mountain base after dark and sat down for tea. The clandestine encounter, one of many Kolton says he had with militants in northern Kunar, set the ball rolling for Massoud\u2019s defection from the insurgency \u2014 along with 100 of his fighters \u2014 in February.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I understand how COIN works and I understand how important the Anbar Awakening and the Sons of Iraq were in Iraq, but this isn&#8217;t Iraq and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/breaking-news\/afghan-soldier-shot-dead-after-firing-at-nato-troops-inside-military-base\/story-e6frfku0-1226328151123\">the tactics that the Taliban are using have changed<\/a>. I understand the position this company commander finds himself in, and I sympathize, I really do, but holy smokes, for the welfare of my troops, I&#8217;d want to know the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it any wonder that PTSD is effecting so many of our troops when folks who &hellip; <a title=\"Enemy inside the gates\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29524\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enemy inside the gates<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}