I know this is the extreme and a horrible incident, but I'm a firm believer that "those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it".
I'm guessing we didn't learn anything from Vietnam (Guerrilla warfare) and Russia in Afghanistan back in the 1980's.
We are a stupid people.
It's a shame that American lives have been lost. We also need to realize that we can't be the savior of the world, especially when the people don't want it.
It's time to admit defeat and pull our troops out.
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KABUL, Aug 31 (Reuters) - An adolescent boy and a young girl have been beheaded in two separate incidents in Afghanistan, local officials and police said on Friday, in the latest brazen attacks that have raised fresh questions about a splintering Taliban.
A 12-year-old boy was kidnapped and killed in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, his severed head placed near his body to send a warning to police, said provincial governor spokesman Jawid Faisal.
The brother of the boy, neither of whom were named by officials, was a member of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), a U.S.-trained militia charged with making Afghans in Taliban strongholds, like Kandahar, feel more secure, Faisal said.
"It's a Taliban warning to the ALP and to others who support the government," Faisal said of the killing, which happened in Kandahar's Panjwai district.
Afghanistan Violence: Children Beheaded In Two Separate Incidents
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