Another firefight in Afghanistan

I cannot wait till the last Australian flies out of Afghanistan.


I’d love to hear this morning from anyone who’s been there.

I mean I get that this is what you train for and this is why you’re in the force, but I think we’ve been treading water there for a while now. I just don’t know what it is that we’re achieving in Afghanistan and the cost is far too great.

Two more Australian soldiers have been wounded in a firefight during a raid on a narcotics laboratory in Afghanistan.

The raid uncovered the materials to make drugs with a value of $US150 million ($147 million), making it the biggest drug bust by Australian forces in Afghanistan.

And that’s wonderful…I’m glad we had a win here, but I don’t know that we can ever win over there.

"The facility is reported to be one of the largest heroin-producing facilities destroyed in Afghanistan in the past five years," Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel G (who cannot be identified) said today.

I wonder why he can’t be identified. What’s going on there ?

I mean he’s walking around amongst insurgents in the most dangerous country in the world wearing a uniform…..how can it get anymore dangerous for him if people happen to know his name ?

Profits from this drug lab helped finance insurgent attacks against coalition and Afghan forces.

I can’t wait till they all come home.