This week brought the terrible news from Afghanistan that 30 American and seven Afghan service members, along with their Afghan interpreter, had perished when their Chinook helicopter was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. The dead included members of Army, Air Force and Navy special operations units, with 22 of them being from SEAL Team 6, the unit credited with killing Osama bin Laden.
They were on their way to support a unit of Army Rangers that were engaging the Taliban in the Tangi Valley of Afghanistan’s Wardak Province.
The Tangi Valley is only about 35 miles southwest of Kabul, but militarily it might as well be on another continent. Kabul is under the somewhat tenuous control of the Afghan government, which is supported by U.S. and NATO forces. But Wardak Province and the Tangi Valley are largely controlled by the Taliban. That’s disconcerting, given the area’s proximity to Kabul.
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