The Taliban Don’t Wave

[undercoverbrother]

A book by 2nd Lt Semrau.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/enterta...809/story.html

Interesting that he does not go into detail about "the incident". At least he is consistant with his refusal to discuss it.

Two years later, he still refuses to talk about what really happened on that day.
“I had my opportunity to speak, at the court martial,” says Semrau, in Calgary Wednesday to promote his book.
“I believe it would be the height of cowardice, now, to write a whistleblower, tabloidesque book about my time in Afghanistan. I’m not here to make a profit off my court martial or any of the media hype around that.”

This will be a book I will read.

I hope he is doing well in his new profession.

[Northendzone]

i could only imagine how much you would be changed after going thru an expereince like this.......personally i have trouble judging those that work in this profession.

[Rerun]

My brother-in-law is basically a body guard over in Afghanistan. He's a combat medic in a Personal Security Detail working for a major US security protection firm. A PSD combat medic isn't the same as the army medic you see in the movies where they run around unarmed, saving people... He is more like a medic on a SEAL team where he fights and kills if he has too, but he has the training to treat his team members if they are wounded.

Anyways he's been over there doing his job for a number of years and he has very little respect for the Afghanis and if his principal or team members are in danger he shoots first and then gets the hell out of there.... no asking questions later.

His opinion on Afghanis is that they are a backwards, uneducated and stupid people who if they have a chance to #### something up they probably will.

I doubt he first went over there thinking that but after a while the mission wears on you and you tend to lose your compassion for them.

The country he loves however... he thinks its beautiful.