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Ex-Green Beret’s Novel Levels Indictment For Afghan War Failure

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July 9, 2014
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Tattoo Zoo: A Novel of the Afghan War

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Tattoo Zoo: A Novel of the Afghan War
Tattoo Zoo: A Novel of the Afghan War

Despite following a fictional platoon, Paul Avallone’s new novel Tattoo Zoo: A Novel of the Afghan War takes a strong stance against the way the War in Afghanistan has been handled.

With the sudden and violent collapse of Iraq, it is inevitable to question whether or not the same fate awaits Afghanistan, ruining America’s efforts in the region.

“We won the Afghan invasion very quickly,” said Avallone, a former Special Forces soldier who spent more than three years in the war, first as a Green Beret, then as a civilian embedded journalist. “Then we proceeded to lose the war in the following dozen years of nation-building.”

Avallone argues that after the initial victory our political and military leaders did not pursue and destroy the routed Taliban and al-Qaeda enemy in their Pakistani sanctuaries. Instead they applied a war-fighting strategy of hearts-and-minds counterinsurgency coupled with extremely restrictive rules of engagement which, Avallone says, tasked our ground soldiers with fighting a war that thereafter could not be won.

“We refused to define the Taliban as Islamic ideologues, determined and relentless,” Avallone said in a release. “And we romanticized the native Afghan, believing that if we dug him wells and gave him schools and clinics, he would set aside his tribal and religious loyalties and welcome us as his brothers. And the ultimate strategic failure: we were giving our blood and treasure for nothing in return. For no economic gain. Not oil, not shipping lanes, not a colony, not a trading partner.”

Avallone lays fault first with our political leaders who, he said, could not publicly recognize that it is a religion that we are fighting against.

“They ignored the primary tenet of Sun Tzu, to know your enemy.”

“The Afghan will sit down to three cups of tea with you any day, but he is not going to allow you to tell him what to do or how to live, and he will fight to his death to defy you,” said Avallone of our allies.

Avallone rejects that we should wage wars against our own interests.

“Those who attacked us on 9/11 and those who had given them sanctuary needed to be punished, destroyed,” he said in a release. “But what in the years following justifies 2,500 American deaths, 20,000 life-changing injuries and a trillion dollars blown?”

Those are the undertones of Avallone’s markedly politically incorrect novel “Tattoo Zoo.” In it he distills the war down to three intense days with a fictional American infantry platoon caught, Alamo-like, in a crossfire between a fiercely attacking Taliban horde and the platoon’s own politically correct four-star command who is determined to prosecute the soldiers for war crimes.

“Do not blame the soldier for the failure in strategy and the lost war,” Avallone said. “I was one of them and then spent years with them, and by and large, a hundred to one, the American GI has fought the Afghan War bravely, honestly and honorably.”

He added with regret, “The same cannot be said of our high command, both civilian and military.”

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