Sunday, December 7, 2014

Letters From Afghanistan - An Army Captain writes about leaving ~ "Freedom Comes From Security"

 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: FOUO

Not out yet,..Going out again in the morning,..probably going to get
attacked. Where I'm going the terrain favors the Haj,...Bring it on I
say,..we killed over 400 about 2 weeks ago over 7 hours. I have to go
and get a couple of awards here in about a half hour,..Combat action
award and a  edit ... ...One of our areas is being turned over,..It takes
time to get this country "Capitalized" They will never be free,...at
least not without 40 years of freedom under their belts,...Freedom comes
from security,....Security is the first tenant of any operation. Your
retired LTC pal will tell you that. We are getting pulled out because of
a campaign promise from years ago. There was a reason Bush did not shoot
OBL...it was not in the best interest of the situation on the
ground,..Bush knew public opinion would turn on the war,..the people
would call for us to leave,..it implodes,....we comeback to a bigger
mess 5 years later,....I actually talked about you...good of course, to
my buddy J....edit...

I will Email more later,..I have to run,..It is always great to hear
from you,..