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Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts

Saturday, December 15, 2012

GO, BEAU - MY NEW HERO! US SOLDIER PLAYS STAR SPANGLED BANNER DURING PRAYER TIME IN AFGHANISTAN

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/12/-american-soldier-plays-star-spangled-banner-during-prayer-time-in-afghanistan.html

GOD BLESS YOU, BEAU, AND KEEP YOU SAFE FROM HARM!  COME HOME SOON, AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!

In view of the new Army handbook of rules for kissing the feet of Muslims, worldwide, this patriot deserves a medal FROM US!

By "US", I mean every American and every one of you reading this blog to tweet this into a love letter for our Beau! 

Friday, February 24, 2012

Thursday, June 9, 2011

FORGET WEENIEGATE - obama's IMPEACHABLE FOR LIBYA,

AND,

If what I read on Drudge and others today, we're going to keep our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and also start a war in Yemen, not to mention the burgeoning one in Syria.

Are we going to impeach him tomorrow or what?

Aren't you getting tired of this?

Sunday, April 3, 2011

FROM REDSTATE: BARACK(THE FRAUD) OBAMA AND AFGHANISTAN'S RETALIATION AT THE BURNING OF THE KORAN IN THE USA

On Friday, as many as 20 United Nations staffers were killed in Afghanistan. Reuters reported it this way (emphasis added):

(Reuters) – Afghan protesters angered by the burning of a Koran by an obscure U.S. pastor killed up to 20 U.N. staff, beheading two foreigners, when they over-ran a compound in a normally peaceful northern city on Friday in the worst ever attack on the U.N. in Afghanistan.

Note the bolded part. ABC News reported it like this:

U.N. Staffers Killed in Afghanistan Over Terry Jones Koran Burning, Police Say

At least eleven people were killed, including some United Nations officials, today in Afghanistan, apparently in response to Florida pastor Terry Jones burning the Koran last month, Afghan police and U.N. officials said.

Police told ABC News the protest started peacefully but took a violent turn after a radical leader told those gathered that multiple Korans had been burned. In a fury, the people marched on the nearby U.N. compound despite police firing AK-47s into the air in hopes of subduing them.

You see, it is not the fault of the barbarians who murdered 20 innocent people, beheading two of them. It’s the fault of some unknown hick pastor – because he burned a book. President Obama himself furthered this odious meme with his own statement:

“The brave men and women of the United Nations, including the Afghan staff, undertake their work in support of the Afghan people,” Obama said. “Their work is essential to building a stronger Afghanistan for the benefit of all its citizens. We stress the importance of calm and urge all parties to reject violence and resolve differences through dialogue.”

Oh, really President Obama? They killed 20 people because of “differences” (like the burning of a Koran) that can be resolved if only people would have a nice rap session? I suppose he can now pat himself on his smug back for being such a good multicultural Citizen of the World ™. While President Obama and the media prostrate themselves at the altar of multiculturalism, what they are actually doing is proving themselves to be fools and racists.

President Obama also said the following (via Jake Tapper):

POTUS 1/3: “The desecration of any holy text, including the Koran, is an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry…

POTUS 2/3: “However, to attack and kill innocent people in response is outrageous, and an affront to human decency and dignity.”

Yeah, no. To say that the reason they committed such barbaric acts was “in response” to anything is an act of bigotry as well as an affront to human decency and dignity.

Because what they believe, and what they expect us to believe, is that the killers in Afghanistan are just poor dumb “brown people” who don’t know any better. They are so simple-minded, in fact, that they can be led astray and led to commit heinous acts of murder by one unknown pastor. Never mind the fact that they behead their own people and stone women to death for the horrendous crime of baring an ankle. Or, you know, being the victim of a rape.

We philistines just don’t understand the nuance of their culture and the religion of Islam, you see.

Not only do they truly believe that they are Smarter Than You and more enlightened than we hapless rubes, but they also truly believe that they are better than all those pesky “brown people,” particularly non-westerners. To them, of course non-ivory tower dwelling, non-westerners are far less advanced and can’t be expected to act in a civilized manner. Their barbarism is excused with a figurative pat on the head, all so that the left can tout themselves as oh-so-enlightened and so that they can continue to feel that they are far superior to everyone else.

I said the following in a post about female genital mutilation several months ago and it encapsulates exactly what is happening here:

This attitude is not only bigoted, it is a great danger. It is the “soft bigotry of low expectations” taken to an unprecedented, and deadly level. The result of this line of thought is that not only are barbaric acts like FGM condoned, but terrorism is also not only tolerated, it is excused. We see this all the time in their constant excuse-making for terrorists. Excuse me, man-made disaster causers, as the Newspeak-y left would like us to call them.

This bigotry and this meta-ethical relativism is one of the largest dangers the world faces. The world must realize that apologizing for evil, violent acts is not embracing diversity. It’s not “seeing both sides” nor being culturally aware. It is embracing insanity and condoning evil.

This line of thinking, which condones such barbarism and persists in delusional moral equivalency is revolting. It is excusing evil acts by taking away any culpability people have for their own actions. They are showing their bigotry by saying that people just don’t know any better or are willing dupes easily led, not of their own accord. This must end. This is also not a “difference to be resolved with dialogue”.

Some things are just right or wrong. Some things are just good or evil. Some evil people commit acts of barbarism because they want to. Unlike President Obama and his fellow travelers, I refuse to excuse it and I refuse to ignore that reality.

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cross-posted from Newsreal

Saturday, January 1, 2011

JANET NAPOLITANO: PASSPORTS AND BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR AFGHANI NOMADS WHO CAN'T READ?

Who for centuries travel from water hole to water hole and don't recognize borders? Is she nuts?

And she won't close our borders?

And we, who give her the power, treats us like criminals?

And what the hell is she doing involved in their homeland?

Where is her homeland?

There's something very, very wrong here.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

AFGHAN STRAY ANIMALS - A HAVEN FOR AFGHAN'S UNWANTED DOGS AND CATS

http://www.afghanstrayanimals.org/index.php

You might want to donate.
You might want to help a soldier bring a four-legged buddy home.
You might want to adopt one yourself.

For any or all reasons, you should know this rescue exists.

I was sent an email of a young soldier in Afghanistan yesterday, explaining his buddy/stray was full of fleas and considered a health hazard to the troops in his unit. "Bear" is a beautiful, very thin dog, probably full of parasites as well as fleas. He's been through a lot with the unit. The soldier would like to care for him but resources are few. I suspect, he would like to bring "Bear" home to the US. These strays provide comfort, relaxation, love and sometimes protection to the soldiers or the whole units. They should be rewarded with a home.

I got in touch with an angel-contact at the Humane Society of the United States' offices, and
she put me in touch with the international arm of HSUS, Kelly O'Meara, who in turn, put us in touch with Afghan Stray Animals.

Bless you all!

I hope Bear gets the help he needs, and finds hope and a home through Afghan Stray Animals.

Thank you all at HSUS. You are wonderful!

Friday, June 12, 2009

Afghan burn pits poisoning our troops?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-rieckhoff/are-we-poisoning-our-troo_b_214646.html

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Obama's nightmare - Afghanistan from Liberty Maven

November 19th, 2008 11:06 am | by Marc Gallagher | Published in Blowback, Foreign Policy, Maven Commentary, Obama, Politics, War, terrorism | Comment

And so it begins. The pixels barely dry on my commentary this morning about Obama’s coming intervention is Afghanistan we get a new message from Al-Qaeda’s number two man, Ayman Zawahiri, warning Obama and the U.S. of the likely outcome of such a policy.

“What you have announced before … that you will withdraw (US) troops from Iraq (and send them) to Afghanistan is a policy that is doomed to failure,” Zawahiri said in the message made available by the SITE Intelligence Group.

“If you still want to be stubborn about America’s failure in Afghanistan, then remember the fate of (US President George W.) Bush and (Pakistan’s former president) Pervez Musharraf, and the fate of the Soviets and British before them,” he added.

Do these words have merit? Will Obama’s Afghanistan become the failure leading to his undoing? Perhaps the most compelling aspect of Zawahiri’s prediction is that it will not be an unexplored theory. Obama is going to intervene, and we are going to be able to judge the results of that intervention.

Will Obama’s own style of intervention succeed where Bush’s failed? I have my doubts.