Posted on 06/25/2011 4:26:01 AM PDT by sunmars
A HUGE car bombing at a hospital killed 60 and wounded 120 in Afghanistan today, days after US President Barack Obama said 10,000 US forces would leave the country this year.
The brazen suicide attack in Logar province, just south of the capital Kabul, killed women and children and was described as "unprecedented" in the history of the near-decade-long Afghan war by officials.
"As a result of this heartbreaking incident, 60 of our countrymen including children, women, youths and men ... have been martyred and 120 others including health workers have been injured," the ministry of public health said in a statement.
"This inhumane act is unprecedented in the history of the conflict in our country and targeted a place where wounds are healed and patients receive treatment."
The statement also voiced "disgust and hatred towards the perpetrators."
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldsun.com.au ...
“me” = men
Makes one wonder when the religion of peace is going to make some inroads there.
of course it is, it will fall under the religious faction as soon as the troops go, they barely are holding it together now, Afghanistan has been the bane of many an army.
"I against my brother, my brothers and me against my cousins, then my cousins and I against foreigners."
They fought each other until the Brits showed up and then they fought the Brits. After the Brits left, they fought each other until the Russians showed up, then they fought the Russians. When the Russians left, they went back to fighting each other until WE showed up.
They'll fight us until we leave and then go back to shooting each other.
bingo, nail on the head.
We’ve lost 9 Marines in the past 5 days. For what? Bring our boys home. NOW!
Islam-religion of peace!
moozlum credo: I love you. I will kill you and your family. Slash! Boom!
LLS
The sooner they go back to shooting each other, the better I will like it.
There isn’t one person in Afghanistan worth the life of one US soldier, IMO.
Good post, and very true. I know an Afghan here in Berlin, nice fellow. He explained the reason he’s here now, and not in Kabul, is that Afghanistan is, has always been, and will always be, an intensely tribal society. The tribe matters above all else....certainly more than politics or religion.
Afghanistan, I believe, will always be an agglomoration of tribal/ethnic groups who sporadically fight one another, and occasionally form pacts with each other when its most suitable. The only time(s) when unity, more or less, is to be found is when they’re confronted with an external force or enemy. Once the enemy has been removed, it’s back to business as usual. And, as some here have posted, Afghanistan has indeed been the bane of many a world power, past and present. The Afghan I know said, he doesn’t see it changing anytime soon. These are cultural factors that have been ingrained since time immemorial.
Like the old saw goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.
bump
Not sure why mods don’t move this to Breaking News.
Ah, the glories of Islam. Nothing like showing one’s heroic side by taking out a bunch of women and children at a hospital. Mohammed must be smiling.
As for here, I’d like to find out more about that strange Amtrak/truck collision. It was clearly intentional, but was it a suicide or was it an attack? (Remember, AQ had urged attacking the US train system.)
...days after US President Barack Obama said 10,000 US forces would leave the country this year... killed women and children and was described as "unprecedented" in the history of the near-decade-long Afghan war...I guess that first fifteen or twenty years don't count.
yup, that would be straight out of the playbook.
I am still waiting for someone to tell me why we are still there after ten long years. I don’t see how it benefits America or Afghanistan.
Some fear that if we leave, the Taliban would retake power, again allow Al Queda a base for their operations, and we would be back where we were on 9/11/2001.
What would keep the Taliban from just moving from Afghanistan? Aren’t they already in Pakistan? What about the terror cells in Yemen? If we aren’t going to really be serious about winning the war, why are we there?
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