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The United States military has thrown in the towel on its attempt to defend the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan. NBC's Richard Engel won plaudits for his Tip of the Spear series in the fall of 2008 and the summer of 2009 on the army's futile attempt to repel Taliban guerrillas in that so-called "Valley of Death." Now after 42 American deaths and more than four years of combat, Engel was on hand for the retreat. He saw soldiers pack up--"taking away 500K lbs of satellite equipment and cases of unused ammunition"--and use 10K lbs of high explosives to destroy the materiel that was too heavy to move. The pullout made for dynamite video, so to speak, as the army wiped out the base it had fought so hard to preserve. "Now there is just a field of debris, some of it still smoldering and hot." The guerrillas were expected to take over within 15 minutes of the pullout.
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