Peter1469
08-20-2015, 02:52 AM
The family of the highest ranking Soldier (http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2015/08/19/completely-betrayed/?hpid=z5)to be killed in combat since Vietnam does not accept the Army's investigation into his death.
MAJ Gen Greene was the commander of the units overseeing the training of the Afghan army and police. He was killed and many others wounded when an infiltrator inside the Afghan army opened fire.
The problem is the US fetish for democracy for all. The Afghans don't know what democracy is. They don't want to know what it is. And we are wasting our time, treasure, and lives attempting to give it to them.
The family gathered for a private briefing at the Pentagon, intent on learning the details of how an Afghan soldier had fatally shot their loved one, Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, the highest-ranking American officer killed in a combat zone since the Vietnam War.
They were all there — Harry Greene’s widow, herself a retired Army colonel; his two children, one a first lieutenant educated at West Point; his father, who’d served as an enlisted soldier at the end of World War II; and his two brothers — and they were all furious. The Afghan soldier, perched in an unsecured military police barracks, opened fire Aug. 5, 2014, on senior U.S. military leaders and Afghan troops at the country’s premiere military academy near Kabul. The insider attack wounded 18 coalition and Afghan soldiers and killed Greene, 55, a two-star general who’d made the Army his life for 34 years.
Two months after the attack, the Greenes wanted to know how it could have taken place and who was responsible for the breach of security.
Sitting before the family in a Pentagon conference room were two generals, including Brig. Gen. Donald E. Jackson Jr., the investigating officer. Greene’s widow, Sue Myers, who holds a top-level security clearance, had already read an unredacted version of his 500-plus-page report. Her son, 1st Lt. Matthew Greene, based at Fort Hood, Tex., participated in the briefing via video, listening as Jackson presented a synopsis of his findings (http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/local/the-militarys-narrative-overview-of-the-attack/1694/).
MAJ Gen Greene was the commander of the units overseeing the training of the Afghan army and police. He was killed and many others wounded when an infiltrator inside the Afghan army opened fire.
The problem is the US fetish for democracy for all. The Afghans don't know what democracy is. They don't want to know what it is. And we are wasting our time, treasure, and lives attempting to give it to them.
The family gathered for a private briefing at the Pentagon, intent on learning the details of how an Afghan soldier had fatally shot their loved one, Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, the highest-ranking American officer killed in a combat zone since the Vietnam War.
They were all there — Harry Greene’s widow, herself a retired Army colonel; his two children, one a first lieutenant educated at West Point; his father, who’d served as an enlisted soldier at the end of World War II; and his two brothers — and they were all furious. The Afghan soldier, perched in an unsecured military police barracks, opened fire Aug. 5, 2014, on senior U.S. military leaders and Afghan troops at the country’s premiere military academy near Kabul. The insider attack wounded 18 coalition and Afghan soldiers and killed Greene, 55, a two-star general who’d made the Army his life for 34 years.
Two months after the attack, the Greenes wanted to know how it could have taken place and who was responsible for the breach of security.
Sitting before the family in a Pentagon conference room were two generals, including Brig. Gen. Donald E. Jackson Jr., the investigating officer. Greene’s widow, Sue Myers, who holds a top-level security clearance, had already read an unredacted version of his 500-plus-page report. Her son, 1st Lt. Matthew Greene, based at Fort Hood, Tex., participated in the briefing via video, listening as Jackson presented a synopsis of his findings (http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/local/the-militarys-narrative-overview-of-the-attack/1694/).