LINCOLN- Tom Brewer sees a tragedy unfolding. “People will understand how brutal the Taliban is,” Brewer says as he contemplates what lies ahead in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. military forces. Brewer has been there. He knows.

“There will be executions on polo fields in Kabul as a Saturday event if the capital falls, a systematic mass killing of the educated who accept the western way, anyone who has helped,” he said. “I feel sick about it.”

Brewer left his own blood in Afghanistan.

In 2002, he was there as a volunteer on a military mission to help train Afghan troops in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attack on targets in the United States that propelled the nation into major military involvement in the Middle East.

In 2003, Brewer was shot six times during a spontaneous firefight with the Taliban at a desolate site near Ghar Mountain in Kabul Province; in 2011, he was wounded again during his sixth tour in Afghanistan when shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade ripped through his body.

The retired Army colonel, a member of the Nebraska Legislature, is watching from afar now as President Joe Biden withdraws U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

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