Another Sad Day in Afghanistan

Posted by Jack

AP – “A newly recruited Afghan village policeman opened fire on his American allies on Friday, killing two U.S. service members minutes after they handed him his official weapon in an inauguration ceremony. It was the latest in a disturbing string of attacks by Afghan security forces on the international troops training them.

Later Friday, an Afghan soldier turned his gun on foreign troops in another part of the country and wounded two of them, a spokesman for the NATO coalition said.

The attacks in the country’s far west and south brought to seven the number of times that a member of the Afghan security forces — or someone wearing their uniform — has opened fire on international forces in the past two weeks.

Such assaults by allies, virtually unheard of just a few years ago, have recently escalated, killing at least 36 foreign troops so far this year. They also raise questions about the strategy to train Afghan national police and soldiers to take over security and fight insurgents after most foreign troops leave the country by the end of 2014.”

Editorial: A good portion of these murderous attacks are retribution or honor killings. Why? What horrible thing could cause an ally to turn on us? It could be because of a perceived insult, a rumor over a Koran burning, maybe just an American soldier flirting with an Afghan female. It could be the killing of a distant relative or a friend by US forces, or just the mere presence of Westerners on Afghan soil. Any number of things can provoke an Afghani into murderous violence (honor killings) as our naive politicians are slowly starting to figure out.

To make matters worse, the ROE, rules of engagement (Obama’s rules) are so restrictive that it forces us into a disadvantage in every gun fight…it’s all political….and to think we were not going to do that THIS time, were we? This was not going to be another Vietnam, right? Then again, Bush made that promise, not Obama.

We’re fighting a losing battle when politicians (Obama) run it, and were losing hope because we are up against a cultural that shares few of our values and flaunts many things we consider perverted. This is especially true among the more primitive people living outside the city. They have been acting in a tribal mindset for thousands of years and no amount new water wells or concrete school houses will fix this.

There can be no success with a culture where it’s common practice for the men to use little boys for anal intercourse when a female isn’t around. This is only one of the many things that makes it impossible for our soldiers to have any sort of respect or effective relationship with people who embrace such a culture.

The treatment of women is another problem. In Afghanistan it’s not unusual for girls as young as 11 to be forced to marry older men, then brutalized and forced into a lifetime of service. Sexual mutilation is also a custom.

In a recent case, US forces rescued a 13 year old homeless girl was imprisoned in a windowless room filled with rotting hay and animal dung. She had been repeatedly beaten and both eyes were black and swollen shut. Her terrible crime for such an inhuman punishment? She dared refused to prostitute herself or have sex with her husband-to-be and his family went along with this!

In another case a middle aged man sought to marry a young teenage girl, but she rebuked his advances and her father refused to give his permission. So the suitor collected 6 of his pals, did a sneak attacked on the family, mutilating everyone before he dumped a bucket of acid on the little girl’s face. What’s especially noteworthy is he had no trouble finding 6 friends to help. Stories like this are too common and it begs the question…what are we doing there?

It is destroying our moral to know this crap is happening right in front of us and there’s not one thing we can do about it.

If we were on a mission to hunt down kill every rotten SOB like the above noted sub-humans, I could remotely justify our presence. In that case I would say we stay just long enough to let them know how our culture feels about their culture…a sick culture that rapes little boys and beats up and tortures women.

I would say we should forget trying to work side by side with them and their corrupt society…we go for total domination. We treat them with the carrot or stick method and the stick being any means of causing their death. If we can’t do that, then we should just get out and leave them to rot in their own corruption! Then the enlightened world should turn their back in disgust on this Hell hole.