September 18, 2007
WE ARE SOUTH KOREA'S NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY:
Afghans: Taliban Behind Kidnappings Dies (AMIR SHAH, 9/18/07, AP)
U.S. airstrikes targeting a meeting of Taliban leaders killed a high-ranking commander involved in the kidnappings of 23 South Koreans two months ago, Afghan officials said Tuesday. [...]Posted by Orrin Judd at September 18, 2007 8:05 AMMullah Abdullah Jan, the Taliban commander of Qara Bagh district in Ghazni province, was among 12 killed in the strike on a mud-brick housing compound overnight in neighboring Giro district, said Ghazni provincial police chief Gen. Ali Shah Ahmadzai.
According to a brief Google search, the highest ranking Americans killed since 2001 were Col. James W. Harrison Jr. in Afghanistan and newly promoted Col. William Wood in Iraq. No doubt a few other field grade officers as well. No generals or any senior civilians.
Yet, we kill or capture their senior and mid-level leadership on a regular basis.
Posted by: Bob at September 18, 2007 11:53 AMThe World Government is everybody's national security policy. That's what governments do.
Posted by: Lou Gots at September 18, 2007 3:58 PM