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Proposed Army manual tells G.I.s not to insult Taliban, speak up for women
FoxNews.com ^ | 12/12/2012

Posted on 12/12/2012 1:33:37 PM PST by RoosterRedux

A proposed new handbook for Americans serving in Afghanistan warns them not to speak ill about the Taliban, advocate women’s rights or criticize pedophilia, and the general in charge is not happy with it.

The draft of the newest Army handbook seems to suggest that ignorance of Afghan culture is to blame for deadly attacks by Afghan soldiers against the coalition forces, according to The Wall Street Journal, which got a peek at the 75-page document. But its message of walking on eggshells around the locals is not going over well with U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen, the top military commander in Afghanistan.

"Gen. Allen did not author, nor does he intend to provide, a foreword," said Col. Tom Collins, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan. "He does not approve of its contents."

More than three dozen attacks by Afghan soldiers have claimed the lives of some 63 members of the U.S.-led coalition this year. The insider attacks could jeopardize plans to transfer full security control to Afghan forces in 2014.

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To: RoosterRedux
On an unrelated topic, American troops in Germany are told not to speak ill of Nazis, mention concentration camps or stand up for Jews.

No? Well, it would be the same thing, wouldn't it?

No bullets in the rifles, don't say anything, don't stand for anything.
How can we export peace without values? The current admin don't have any.
Torch and salt all the opium fields and leave Afghanistan.

21 posted on 12/12/2012 3:04:13 PM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: exit82
Yep.

This country is in deep trouble unless someone (an agency) with power is aware of what is happening and has a plan to excise the cancer after it is fully exposed.

22 posted on 12/12/2012 3:33:13 PM PST by RoosterRedux (He will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats)
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goathumping women abusing child rapers are not to be called on it under pain of an Article-15???
23 posted on 12/12/2012 3:38:49 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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24 posted on 12/12/2012 4:53:10 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Read SCOTUS Castle Rock vs Gonzales before dialing 911!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Ain’t that the frikken truth. And will this bizarre show ever come to an end so we can get back to reality and go to work?


25 posted on 12/12/2012 5:29:10 PM PST by RoosterRedux (He will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats)
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“A proposed new handbook for Americans serving in Afghanistan warns them not to speak ill about the Taliban”

You can kill em and urinate on em just don’t talk smack about em.


26 posted on 12/12/2012 7:27:20 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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