Midknight Review -- new and revised: We are still fighting. They don't quit and neither do we . . . . unless you are a Progressive Peacenik.

Right on target

On August 21, 2018, nine armed ISIS-K terrorists started

firing mortarrounds towards the presidential

palace and Ministry of Defense in Kabul. This Afghan pilot

shot five rockets at the insurgents while ground forces

cleared the area. (NATO photo by Jackie Faye)

On August 21, 2018, approximately nine armed ISIS-K terrorists commenced firing mortar rounds at the rate of one per minute for half an hour. It was the first day of Eid al-Adha. The insurgents firing the mortars hid near Eidgah mosque as they shot towards the presidential palace and Ministry of Defense just as Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani was delivering his address for the Muslim holy festival.
In the sky overhead, that pilot from Ghanzi, now a 29-year-old major. After flying for six and half years he was no longer that kid who did not even know how to get in the cockpit.
"The Ministry of Defense Afghanistan Command and Control Center called me and they gave me a grid they told me they are shooting the rockets from this grid, so I put the grid on the GPS, and then when I arrived I saw the target and asked for permission to fire.”
He then fired five rockets at the insurgents while ground forces
cleared the area.
"We really tried to shoot the target precisely to make sure that we should not hit the civilian people.”
No civilians were hit and the area was secured.
NATO’s Kabul Security Force was standing ready to assist.
"Our job in the Kabul Security Force is to really monitor what is going on in the city and offer advice and provide support to the Afghans. In this particular instance we were watching it very closely, and we watched it unfold, but the entire operation was Afghan-led from start to finish,” said U.K. Army Brigadier Simon Humphrey, Kabul Security Force commander.
Humphrey added that air to ground coordination is one of the hardest capabilities to execute.
Established in 2015, Resolute Support (RS) is a NATO-led, non-combat mission to train, advise and assist the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), who assumed nationwide responsibility for Afghanistan’s security following the conclusion of the previous NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission. Its purpose is to help the Afghan security forces and institutions develop the capacity to defend Afghanistan and protect its citizens in a sustainable manner.

Source: Central Command, here.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

We are still fighting. They don't quit and neither do we . . . . unless you are a Progressive Peacenik.

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