Will Mark Wahlberg the lone survivor in the movie ever again in his life fight, or fight back. Yes I feel he will, he will fight back not because he wants to fight but because every life instinct in his body will call out to fight back. He’ll fight and so will everyone else. While watching the movie “”The Lone Survivor” I saw the lone survivor and I felt anger. Anger at the stupidity, anger at the tragedy and felt the insular nature of Indian governments foreign policies unlike China. Yes it was a movie on americans fighting the war, the war on Taliban in Afghanistan. The taliban came into existence in my mind when they broke the big statues of Buddha back in 2001. That day on TV it was live on television. The fucktards were blowing up a work of art, Talibanisation became condemned.

Lets break down the Lone Survivor movie here, it I must say is a film that I’d love to make and love to share. The Lone survivor showed a true or near truth depiction of a story of four American soldiers who got caught in enemy crossfire while going through what seemed to be a routine surveillance covert op. The story of four guys who are getting married or have left their loved ones at home and have come out for a fight. The four American navy seals go in early morning into enemy territory, spot the target but are then spotted by the local shepherds. After a bit of real world chat the commanding officer lets the locals go and the four americans decide to make a run for it. They are then ambushed by a large Taliban army. From their on its all downhill. Every one dies. Oh you get to know the brothers, the ones who died. Did they fight back, yes they did, were they able to kill them all, no they weren't. Running downhill, exposed to enemy fire they were hoarded and killed brutally one by one all of them. Marcus Luttrell the loan survivor would say he was dead but somehow came out of it.

The above paragraph could have been enough if not for Wikipedia with more research so…

Late in the night of June 27, 2005, two MH-47 Special Operations Aircraft of the Army Special Operations Command’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) (SOAR(A)) approached Sawtalo Sar. As one of the aircraft performed a number of “decoy drops” to confuse any possible enemy on the ground as to the specific purpose of helicopters, the other inserted, via fastrope, a four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance and surveillance team in a saddle between Sawtalo Sar and Gatigal Sar, a peak just to the south of Sawtalo Sar. The insert point was roughly one and one half miles from the nearest Named Area of Interest. The team members were team leader Navy LieutenantMichael P. Murphy of SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 1 (SDVT-1), based out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Gunner’s Mate Second Class Class Danny Dietz from SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 2 (SDVT-2), based out of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Sonar Technician Second Class Matthew Axelson from SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 1 (SDVT-1); and Hospital Corpsman First Class Marcus Luttrell, of SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 1 (SDVT-1). After moving to a pre-determined covered overwatch position, from which the SEALs could observe the Named Areas of Interest, the team was discovered by local goat herders. After determining that they were civilians, and not combatants, Lieutenant Murphy asked Luttrell to “make the call”. Luttrell fearing U.S. media backlash and following the rules of engagement, released them. Regretting their decision, the team relocated to a less desirable observation point. Within two hours of letting the goat herders go, the SEAL Reconnaissance and Surveillance team was ambushed by Ahmad Shah’s men.

The ambush was intense, coming from three sides, and included fire from PK machine guns, AK-47s, RPG-7s, and 82mm mortars. The ambush team forced the SEAL team into the northeast gulch of Sawtalo Sar, on the Shuryek Valley side of Sawtalo Sar. The SEALs made a number of attempts to contact their combat operations center with a PRC-148 MBITR (Multi Band Inter/Intra Team Radio) and then with an Iridium Satellite Phone. The team could not establish consistent communication, however, other than for a period long enough to indicate that they were under attack. Three of the four team members were killed, and Luttrell, being the only survivor, was left unconscious with a number of fractures, a broken back, numerous shrapnel wounds, and later a gunshot. He would soon regain consciousness and evade the pursuing enemy, with the help of local Pashtun villagers, who would eventually send an emissary to the nearest U.S. base to secure his safe rescue, and ultimately save his life.

The target of Operation Red Wings,[1] Mohammad Ismail alias Ahmad Shah, survived the American operation but was killed during a firefight with Pakistani police commandos in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in April 2008.[7]

The fact that they finally got the man made me very happy, and then it revealed the very improbability of the operation. I am not a deep well of knowledge on tactics and strategy but any slouch will tell you not to take the enemy for a fool. With the helicopters the mis directions being played by the US army seem arrogant and stupid. Also when you send a covert op team to a highly militarized zone for an intelligence op, it belittles the men who valiantly died that day. Get your suits to do the job and if the suits would have been patient they would have found a particular Ahmed Shah in the streets of Pakistan and not in his home town. Ahmed Shah was powerful but he had also made enemies within the powerful Taliban and eventually could not survive without support. He was killed by Pakistani police in an encounter a few years later.

This is where the Indian governments engagement with their neighbors needs to be more clear and incisive. Such operations where the enemy clearly is looking to engage should at least have advisories from the Indian and Pakistani armies and governments in strategic places. The collective experience of these two countries in dealing with terrorists and fanatics could only be surpassed by the most war torn states out there. The question also is one of adaptability and local tactical nuance where our military and government could engage better and more effectively.

However one looks at it India clearly needs to play a greater role in stabilizing and building with Afghanistan. I say building and organizing because the Afghanis can very well handle their fights, it is only a matter of providing them with infrastructural support. They will do their politicking and defend their land and fight the fight. What Afghanistan could do very well is with roads, bridges, power plants and big multiplexes to run those fascinating song and dance sequences from Bollywood. As an Indian I feel that the need for better, more pro active approach from our governments is today and there should be more to understanding the greater role we play in our world order than we give ourselves credit for. That’s a question for the AAP party to grapple with but in the meanwhile we could look back…

At the lives which were extinguished by an enemy which wanted to clearly kill them all. The thugs were a crap bunch, a few more men of the same ilk as the four would’ve wiped out the entire monkey brigade, but alas such is hindsight. There weren’t many, there were only four, who let live and were ripped out of their lives by a third grade sultan of some assholes.