The Missing SEAL
An alleged Taliban spokesman is claiming that Taliban forces have decapitated a Navy SEAL. This individual has presented no evidence to support the claim, and his claims have been exaggerated and untrue in the past.
I have to say, I'm skeptical. The Taliban, for all of their success in Afghanistan prior to 2001, is basically the most militarily inept bunch of grabastic stooges ever encountered by American forces. Since the mid-1960's, when the Navy SEAL teams were established, no SEAL has ever been captured. The Viet Cong couldn't capture any of them. Saddam Hussein couldn't capture any of them, in either war. In all of their clandestine operatons, they've never been captured.
And now I'm supposed to believe that one of the poorest-trained military units in the world, that fell in a matter of hours, has accomplished in some feat of pure luck what the Viet Cong, the Republican Guard, and any number of other military units have failed to do in the last forty years?
I'll believe it when I see it.
I have to say, I'm skeptical. The Taliban, for all of their success in Afghanistan prior to 2001, is basically the most militarily inept bunch of grabastic stooges ever encountered by American forces. Since the mid-1960's, when the Navy SEAL teams were established, no SEAL has ever been captured. The Viet Cong couldn't capture any of them. Saddam Hussein couldn't capture any of them, in either war. In all of their clandestine operatons, they've never been captured.
And now I'm supposed to believe that one of the poorest-trained military units in the world, that fell in a matter of hours, has accomplished in some feat of pure luck what the Viet Cong, the Republican Guard, and any number of other military units have failed to do in the last forty years?
I'll believe it when I see it.
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