On September 18, 2014 Rep. Gohmert of Texas asked for and was granted permission to address the United States House of Representatives for one minute to warn against helping the so -called “moderate” jihadists:
“Mr. Speaker, an article today by Andrew McCarthy that I want to read in part:
Meanwhile, back in Afghanistan ….. Bill Roggio reports that jihadists have killed four American soldiers. Three were killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul and the Taliban have claimed responsibility. A fourth was killed in a so-called “green-on-blue” assassination. He was an American there to train “moderate Islamist allies” at a military base in western Afghanistan, and one of these Afghans shot him dead and wounded two others before finally being killed.
It was the fourth green-on-blue attack this year. The last one, in August, claimed the life of Major General Harold Greene, the highest ranking American officer since the Vietnam war to be killed in combat–being murdered by a jihadist in an Afghan military base while training moderate Islamists ….. Roggio observes the Taliban “have devoted significant efforts to stepping up attempts to kill” U.S. and allied forces.
Mr. Speaker, this is outrageous. We don’t need to be helping the so-called moderate jihadists.
And with that, I will insert the full article into the Record.
[From the National Review Online, Sept. 18, 2014] Training `Moderate Islamists’–Four More Americans Killed in Afghanistan
(By Andrew C. McCarthy) Meanwhile back in Afghanistan ….. the Long War Journal’s Bill Roggio reports that jihadists have killed four American soldiers. Three were killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul for which the Taliban have claimed responsibility. A fourth was killed in a so-called “green-on-blue” assassination–i.e., he was an American there to train our “moderate Islamist allies” at a military base (in Western Afghanistan), and one of these Afghans shot him dead and wounded two others before finally being killed.
It was the fourth green-on-blue attack this year. I wrote here about the last one, in August, which claimed the life of Major General Harold Greene, the highest ranking American officer since the Vietnam War to be killed in combat–being murdered by a jihadist in an Afghan military base while training moderate Islamists is quite appropriately considered combat (although being murdered at an American base while preparing to deploy for combat against jihadists is considered “workplace violence”). As Bill explains, green-on-blue attacks are down, from a high of 44 in 2012, mostly because of the U.S. draw-down and reduced “partnering” with the “moderate” Afghan forces (because doing so has proven perilous).
Nevertheless, Bill observes that the Taliban “have devoted significant efforts to stepping up attempts to kill” U.S. and allied forces. Mullah Omar has bragged that the Taliban “cleverly infiltrated the ranks of the enemy” in accordance with a plan hatched in 2011. As I’ve noted before, the Taliban knows our forces are leaving and wants to make it appear that they are chasing us out of the country.
Although the Taliban has never stopped conducting jihadist terror attacks against our forces, President Obama released five Taliban commanders from Guantanamo Bay in May, enabling their return to the anti-American jihad. And now, as American forces retreat from Afghanistan, our soldiers will be assigned to train more “moderate Islamists” in Syria–which apparently will not be a combat mission ….. unless the trainees go green-on-blue.
Source: Congressional Record