tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post411647321894304167..comments2024-03-29T05:15:40.793-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: Some general outrage for the evening,Firehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-51454026620418139512012-10-17T19:04:33.638-07:002012-10-17T19:04:33.638-07:00This reminds me of a conversation I had not long a...This reminds me of a conversation I had not long ago with an infantry sergeant just back from a tour of Afcandyland.<br /><br />He claimed to have been present in a village where one of the "men" whose "hearts and minds" we are trying to win saw a nine-year-old girl's hijab blow off in the wind, causing the girl to show her sinful whorish face, which (praise Allah and the Prophet!) they are required to keep covered. Said "man" smiled an enormous toothy smile at the American soldiers, then stepped over to the girl, drew a knife, and cut the girl's nose off, then commenced carving on her cheeks.<br /><br />See, under current RoE, American troops are not allowed to intervene when they see this kind of thing, and any attempt at intervention would have resulted in a "war crimes" show-trial and dishonorable discharges for the sergeant and his men. And the locals know it. And they dearly love to rub the Yankees' noses in it. This kind of thing is why he won't be re-upping, by the way.<br /><br />I don't know what the hell to do about Trashcanistan, but every story like this one that I hear convinces me that it's not worth one more American life. Let the cavemen with AK47s kill one another. If terrorists strike at the US again from Afghan territory, my gut instinct says that the appropriate response is to turn the country into a self-illuminated glass parking lot. Maybe we should have done that back in 2001.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-12944818189539505222012-10-17T01:49:18.809-07:002012-10-17T01:49:18.809-07:00an OT heads up
Sorry to add to the blood pressure...an OT heads up<br /><br />Sorry to add to the blood pressure! Mr Grigg is offering an interesting dilemma - was the raid an aberration or are such violent abuses "standard procedure"<br /><br /><i>"The same story will reportedly include a comment from an anonymous "law enforcement officer" who will confer his benediction on the raid as "standard operating procedure."<br /><br /> In other words, this home invasion was not one of those anomalous "isolated incidents" we read about from time to time. In Idaho, it is "standard operating procedure" for police conducting a welfare check to rip a terrified woman from her home and then force her husband to kneel with the muzzle of an assault rifle at the back of his head because the husband has been identified as a "constitutionalist" -- and then to carry out an illegal search of the home in the hope of finding something --anything will do -- to justify the raid."</i><br /><br />http://freedominourtime.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/hes-constitutionalist.html<br /><br />That's the second update and the comments are interesting too. Luton Iannoreply@blogger.com