U.S. Marines In Afghanistan Told Not To Spit Towards Mecca…

(NCtimes) -As the war in Afghanistan enters its 11th year, thousands of Camp Pendleton troops are getting much more detailed training in Afghan cultural practices.

Years of lessons learned about roadside bombs also are being tapped to better prepare more than 7,000 base troops leaving for Afghanistan in about 12 weeks to spot the weapons responsible for most deaths and injuries.

“The training is a lot more thorough and mission-oriented now,” said Gunnery Sgt. Dan Tremore, who was helping to oversee training sessions last week for nearly 100 troops. “It’s extremely important in order to be able to operate successfully.”

Troops scheduled to deploy in early January include more than 800 members of a unit that, for the next year, will direct Marine Corps operations in the south-central Asian nation of 31 million people.

The relationships troops forge can mean the difference between a bloody deployment and a relatively safe one, said one of the trainers, Shafiq Mubarak, from the Marine Corps Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning. . .

Mubarak taught the troops the proper way to sit during a shura. He told them they should plan on at least 30 minutes for an initial meeting, and that they should always finish their tea and eat any food presented.

“If you don’t, that means to them that you don’t trust them, or think what they are giving you is poison or is unclean,” he said.

Mubarak also said the Marines should never spit or urinate to the west, the direction of Mecca that Muslims in Afghanistan face when they pray.

``Mubarak taught the troops the proper way to sit during a shura. He told them they should plan on at least 30 minutes for an initial meeting, and that they should always finish their tea and eat any food presented.

“If you don’t, that means to them that you don’t trust them, or think what they are giving you is poison or is unclean,” he said.

Mubarak also said the Marines should never spit or urinate to the west, the direction of Mecca that Muslims in Afghanistan face when they pray. ``

THIS IS BULLCRAP. I had dinner hundreds of times with Afghan men and their families eating mantoo, etc and drinking chai. You never get a plate with food on it. All the food is in the center of the rug on very large platters, from which you grab a bunch of mantoo, e.g. with a piece of bread you break off from a flat loaf on another platter and eat it like a folded sandwich. Everyone eats with their hands. The Afghanis I knew drank beer, smoked and pissed in every direction whenever they wanted to. This is the Afghanis playing American troops as fools and having a good laugh.

I find the reactions here to be very short-sighted.

This sort of respect for the cultural sensitivities of the enemy is the reason we obtained unconditional surrenders from both the Germans and Japanese after less than five years.

So it is no wonder, then, that we have been fighting now for 11 years against a much greater military power without decisive victory. But, with this sort of proper training, the war should be over in a few months, max. /s

Well if they fart or spit west is hit Mecca too, oh wait farting is out of the ~~question period~~ colon and into the mud hut where one can't smell the diffence betewwn a goat f**t( th new Eff word, a va#inal monologues will be out of a job!??fart, a belch, a sheep dripping fart, donkey, goggie, and chicken farts, the whole world should ge a petition an have a national Blazing saddles day, I promise a long sputtery one in which I need about three rolls of double layer Charmin eight rolls ( and I only weigh 160 something) and oven cleaner and maybe a match just to get the splattered and caked pile that catylizes faster than a hot batch of camel dookie on a 115 day in the Sahara, gotta scrape them walls or just blow the joint. I mean with a blessed an anale canale( shades of SNL) like mine who needs a fan? Them silent but deadly ones an those clazty Dutch oven loong pipe cleansing poooofers that seemingly spew methan for so long you'd think maybe your but hit the largest stinly black hole in the universe, oh those fel good but you might lose a girlfrind but again ane sensation is nearly as good as sex!NEARLY!.

Then there's the Swesish farts that are better than Clairol...turns the hair more blond than a young Johnny Winter, pink eyes optional. And what happens when one poops and it all heads south so to speak, I mean thee direction of Mecca( Latin for fartius mucosa), face it gravity floats downhill and Mecca should be moved North, maybe to Chernobyl aka wormwood.

But please do not get me started on a good grenish brown loogie from somewhere in the pit pf Gog knows where but releasing one of them stiky thangs that, well I know business men that think my loogies are the genetic answer to fly paper. In fact I've been filling susperdora after spioom for going on thirty ears now and I've been waiting for them reality house builders to get around to my cluttered looogie filled home. If a queasie stomach do not look u. Pancakes wuth a good egg seem to have sticakability, but i digress

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