Posted on 09/21/2015 7:13:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This BS ties directly to the suicide rate of returning heroes. They are caught in a paradox and realized all they fought for was wasted by our current leadership.
The last culture to conqueror, hold and occupy the region was the Macedonian Greeks under Alexander the Great. And that was 300 BC ish. A long long time ago. Put a cap on the skies over Afgan and forget about the place it is not worth fighting over.
In 1969 I was a Peace Corps Trainee training for Afghanistan. Besides intensive Farsi lessons, we learned a great deal about Afghan culture. One was the rampant homosexuality (in those long-past days considered a very bad thing). “Women are for children, boys are for pleasure.” was the saying.
To say the Afghans are set in their ways is an understatement. The last king, like the Shah of Iran, was trying to encourage small steps to enter the modern world, but he was fought tooth and nail by the mullahs. Of course the mullahs won. Not worth the life (or career) of one American, in my opinion.
This is not new. I read an article a year or so ago that there were a lot of tensions between our officers and the Afghan officers over the dancing boy stuff. It makes our guys sick.
The perverts (pre-verts; Dr. Strangelove indeed) have been at it for a long long time.
Now they are in charge at every level and segment of our nation.
We’ve only ourselves to blame. The Sleeping Giant has been asleep far to long.
JMO
Watch the movie “The Kite Runner”...
Gripping, poignant and it gives a view into the culture that will shock you...
policy of instructing US soldiers to ignore child sexual abuse by their Afghan “allies”
reflects a reluctance to impose cultural values in a country where pederasty is rife, particularly among powerful men, for whom being surrounded by young teenagers can be a mark of social status.
When you find a young boy chained to a bed so the local police chief can brutalize him every night, you put a stop to that.. with the butt of a rifle if need be.
And we certainly don’t turn around and end an officer’s career for trying to put a stop to rape and child torture.
Someone has to answer for this.
You understand that we ourselves are immersed in a culture that excuses everything with "Who am I to judge?" If you criticize behavior like this, you are a H8er!
Maybe something like President Trump re-upping the good guys that the Muslim in Chief fired and making sure that those same good guys get PROMOTIONS and Muzzie Boy’s appointments get sent to some far away place and put in charge of filing random papers of no import.
Anyone ask Karen Johnson (Whoopi Goldberg)if it was rape-rape? Any of the other heifers on the View dial in with a small minded opinion?
Afghanistan was another Vietnam no-win war from the beginning.
Rumsfeld said it wasn’t going to be like World War II and how right he was.
The Taliban came from Pakistan and Al-Queda from Saudi Arabia. A total WW II style effort was required after 9/11, our modern Pearl Harbor.
But it was George W. Bush who chose the Vietnam style war and Barack Obama who only made it worse.
I heard about this 4 years ago from a contractor over there. These elders are the US allies
That is the exact quote I heard also.
When our guys DO try to help the boys that are SEX SLAVES, THEY GET REMOVED FROM THE MILITARY!!!!!!
Freepers....THIS is the end of the line for America!! It's not even being covered on TV!!
OBAMA must answer for these WAR CRIMES....but he won’t.
There are many reasons I no longer fly a flag except on holidays. This is one of them.
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