Posted on 10/01/2014 1:41:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
Three Afghan soldiers who vanished during training in Massachusetts last month and resurfaced days later at the Canadian border said they want asylum because returning to the homeland they are sworn to defend could mean death at the hands of the Taliban.
“They catch us, they kill us,” Maj. Jan Mohammad Arash, 48, told the Boston Globe of the Taliban, the terrorist government driven into exile by coalition forces. “They tip those who kill us.”
Arash and the others, Capt. Mohammad Nasir Askarzada and Capt. Noorullah Aminyar, say the lives of their relatives back home have been threatened. The soldiers fear they’ll be targeted by Taliban militants for fighting alongside Americans if they return to Afghanistan, they told the newspaper
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This I can believe. After all, we helped that Pakistani doctor so much.
I can’t really blame them considering what Obama is doing in the world.
Talk about an epidemic of The Cowardly Lion Syndrome! Even the warriors are running away? Yet these same frightened Afghans have enough nerve to try to kill an American Officer every now and then, that, they can handle.
Exactly. They are not fools.
Exactly
Once I thought the French were drop your pants surrender monkeys—but next to these Iraqi—Afghans, they look brave and loyal troops. The French are showing their game face in North Africa and may well prove better than the USA—sad to say.
These are not the same Afghans - the Taliban are trying to kill them too.
We have proven ourselves incapable of protecting even our own troops, and we’re surely incapable of protecting our allies. There was a Taliban killing of Afghan soldiers there just today.
What is needed to pacify insurgents is a special good guy/bad guy bomb. A bomb that can be dropped and kill the bad guys without causing harm to the good guys. That will remove the fear of retaliation. However, retaliation is the key word in the Islamic world, they must always have their revenge eventually. They are not interested in your motives, and any assault against them will be avenged. Humanity, you are cursed with the Gods of war.
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