{"id":31530,"date":"2012-08-15T15:46:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T19:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31530"},"modified":"2012-08-15T15:46:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T19:46:28","slug":"sherlock-panetta-finds-a-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31530","title":{"rendered":"Sherlock Panetta finds a clue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leon Panetta found time between his intra-coastal romps on taxpayers’ dime to admit that which the rest of the world has known for several months now; that the green-on-blue attacks are part of a Taliban strategy to destroy the partnership between Afghan forces and NATO troops, says Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta this week blamed the Taliban for the increasing number of green-on-blue attacks, a departure from previous comments in which he and other military leaders had downplayed the group\u2019s involvement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is, the Taliban has not been able to regain any territory lost, so they\u2019re resorting to these kinds of attacks to create havoc,\u201d Panetta told reporters in a Pentagon press briefing Tuesday. \u201cWe have not and will not allow this kind of intimidation to undermine our efforts to build up the Afghan National Security Force and try to put it more and more in the lead.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a departure from previous policy statements from the Defense Department which compared the attacks to a bar fight with fully automatic weapons;<\/p>\n

\u201c[The shootings are] usually related to people getting into arguments,\u201d Lt. Col. David Simons, spokesman for the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan, told Stars and Stripes in April 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s put it in the vernacular of a bar fight. But here, they have weapons,\u201d Simons said. \u201cIt\u2019s just, somebody told them to do something. Or they didn\u2019t like the way they were talked to.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, that was until the Taliban started broadcasting videos of the welcome home parades for murderers who got away with their dastardly deeds. And until the White House started making statements about the effects of these cowardly attacks were said to have a “negligible<\/a>” effect on the overall strategy.<\/p>\n

Apparently, turning their desks to face the door<\/a> hasn’t been enough of a deterrent, so they’ve got a new program with yet another cutesy name;<\/p>\n

One of those steps is a \u201cguardian angel\u201d program that would provide security during meetings between NATO and Afghan troops, which Panetta said \u201cinvolves identifying one individual to stand to the side so that he can watch people\u2019s backs and hopefully identify people who would be involved in these attacks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One person. I wonder if they’ll give him a target to put on his chest…or maybe a special reflective PT belt. Will he be armed or just really good at shouting “Look out!” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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