Like, what goes on over there already?

Two U.S. Army helicopter pilots talk on top of a Blackhawk helicopter. (Peter Parks / AFP/Getty Images)

I guess maintenance is necessary, but, placing oneself in a place where an angry Afghan can start engines is not a good idea. 

I don't 'buy it' that this man was Taliban either.  20 years as an Afghan military?  And now this?  It doesn't add up.

Was this pilot in any way working for a 'drug warlord' in Afghanistan as well?  The only way a veteran officer with this much clout would do something this stupid is if he was caught doing something or being involved in something corrupt or illegal.  What was the argument about?  It had to be something significant, it wasn't something over philosophical ideas or a bad hair day. 

Ya know, there is just times when corruption runs so deep it can't be solved no matter how much the USA tries.  We need to bring the troops home.  This is a hopeless situation.  When the USA abandoned its post to go to Iraq, the war was lost and trying to reverse that tend is next to impossible now.  This is a major incident.  This isn't a Talian anything, although they are using it for propaganda.  Wasn't there some kind of national killing or fighting day recently?  Maybe that is what this is connected to, but, even that seems to convenient an excuse. 

I really believe there is some kind of corruption at the heart of it. 

..."An Afghan officer opened fire on foreigners after an argument," Azimi said. "For the past 20 years, he has been a military pilot."Azimi could not give a specific number of deaths and injuries but said the gunman was killed. He did not say whether the foreigner involved in the dispute was a member of NATO coalition forces or whether that person was among the casualties.

The Taliban claimed that it sent the Afghan officer to shoot Afghan and foreign troops at the compound and that he had killed several of both, according to spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid. He did not say how he was informed of the number of casualties.

Maj. Michael Johnson, a spokesman for NATO forces, said they were aware of the shooting but had not yet received details.

Reporters were not allowed into the air force compound, where Afghan troops guarded the doors and no NATO forces were visible. Afghan air force officers declined to comment about the shooting....