By Semperpapa
We have all been seeing the latest gotcha video of Marines taking a piss on dead Taliban fighters and we have all been treated to the usual indignation of those who are trying their best to shed negative vibes upon our Military.
So it is only for sake of argument that I write this about something that is really a no-News item.
What do I care if some Marines take a piss on some dead Taliban terrorists? Absolutely nothing is the short answer.
It is not a matter of just moral relativism, something that my friends on the Left are true experts at, but a matter of something called war.
War is not the glorified endeavor that has been shown by movies. In the old days, war was glorified as a noble occurrence, filled with chivalric characters who were portrayed as the champions of good against evil.
As higher education undertook the brainwashing of the youth of America, Hollywood followed suit and the image of the selfless hero disappeared, leaving the screen to the disillusioned hero or the mentally destroyed warrior.
In both cases war was a propaganda tool used for the advancement of an agenda.
In reality, war is a nasty and gross event, where humanity expresses its worst possible traits and tendencies; where sometimes the worst wounds are non visible to the untrained eye. There is absolutely nothing clean and noble about war.
Where good can be found is in the stepping up that American young men and women continue to do in defense of our Nation and our principles. Volunteering for any branch of the United States Military, especially the Army and Marine Corps, is a highly possible ticket to Afghanistan.
Service in that theater of operation is, as explained to me by several Veterans of that conflict, a mixture of extremely boring duty and shear terror. One sure thing is that the experience of combat in this war is nothing short of as terrifying as any other conflict of the past, including the "good" war, WWII.
The Marines in Marjah or Felluja, the Army soldiers and the Air Force FAC in the Patkia Province have experienced the same terror filled moments as did the Marines on Guadalcanal or the Rangers in Normandy. The only difference between the war of 1944 and tat of 2011 is that the Marines on Guadalcanal and the Rangers in Normandy did not have to concern themselves with some jerk taking videos of their actions and build a smear case against them.
My only complaint against the actions of the Marines in the pissing episode is that they allowed a video to be shot, and kept, of the episode. That's about it!
I will then be using the same approach as the liberal progressive use in apologize for the worst of human behavior.
You see, just as a criminal is excused by liberals because he/she was victim of some sort of emotional trauma by some person in their past or some circumstances created by republicans, I am sure that the Marines in the video acted as they did because they were emotionally scarred by some episode of their distant or near history.
Maybe they just witnessed a buddy of their being blown to bloody mist by some guy with an explosive vest attached to them. Or maybe they just witnessed one of those nice Taliban dudes use a child to breech their defenses only to become an innocent victim.
In any case, just the stress of combat is enough to justify a behavior that none of these men would most likely engage in under normal circumstances.
So the squeamish liberals can just go back to their rocks and relax.
I find it amazing that the news of 41% of all New York pregnancies end up in abortion gets no traction, but the shenanigans of some battle weary Marines is stirring up so much disdain.
The only aspect of the story that really pisses me off, is that thanks to the attention that the media is giving to the event, the Taliban terrorists and the corrupted Karzai suddenly have a platform from where gain some sort of devious and surely undeserved, moral standing.
If anyone is interested in comparing the actions of these Marines and those of the scum we are fighting, just search for Thomas Tucker and Kristian Menchaca, two American soldiers who were killed in Iraq in 2006.
Just my thoughts!
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Karzai Calls American Troops Occupiers
By Semperpapa
Once again Afghan president Karzai succeeds in pissing off the American people, at least those who pay some attention to that far away conflict and actually give a damn about our Military.
United States Ambassador Karl Eikenberry in a speech on Sunday, indirectly warned the leadership in Kabul that the American people are getting sick and tired of being called occupiers in the country where so many sons and daughters of America spilled their blood.
Even if Eikenberry did not mention Karzai by name, his remarks were obviously in response to the content of a meeting that Karzai had also on Sunday, with the Iranian minister of Defense, the very first such high level visit from a representative of the Iranian regime to Kabul.
During such visit, the two officials addressed the increasing problems that the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan represents.
The statements from Karzai and Ahmad Vahidi follow some meetings that the former had with Ahmadinejad just last week in Kazakhstan.
In the first place, the blood of over 1,500 American KIAs was spilled in the attempt to eliminate Afghanistan's safe heaven for those who attacked us on September 11, 2001, and give the people of Afghanistan a chance at a better life, but it is obvious that allowing Karzai to be the political leader of that nation has been a grave mistake for our troops and for the Afghan people.
Karzai and his government are probably some of the most corrupted leaders that have graced this planet, and it has been thanks to the sacrifice of the so-called occupiers that he is still alive and able to spew his crap without someone sticking an IED up his ass.
What about the sudden closeness between Karzai and Teheran? In few words, it is something that we Americans asked for when we introduced the outrageous concept of timeline into a armed conflict. Just the knowledge of such action being initiated this summer is enough for Karzai to seek the sympathy of his thuggish neighbor.
It is also well known and documented that the Iranian regime has been tactically and logistically aiding the Taliban in their fight against the US Military and the Afghan government forces. So basically is now sucking up to the same people who have been actually slaughtering his own people. Which makes me wonder about the possibility that Karzai has been in bed with Teheran for some time now, just playing his double face with Washington.
So what are we left with? Realistically, two venues. We can either take all our troops out, practically leaving scorched Earth behind, meaning completely destroy every installation and piece of equipment we cannot carry out, or we could send Karzai to pound sand somewhere else and establish a similar situation like we did in Japan after 1945. In that case, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was the de facto governor of that nation and in charge of its reconstruction.
The callousness Karzai is displaying toward the suffering of his people and the bleakness of their future is for me enough justification for sending the piece of camel shit packing. Wonder how long he would survive without American forces guarding his ass.
Finally, I am completely incensed by the actions of the Afghan president as I think about all the families still mourning the death of their loved ones who died so that the Afghan people would be rid of the scourge of Taliban and al Qaeda terrorists inside their borders.
It is a true dishonor to our fallen for this man to be consorting with the same government that has been working hard to insure that the Afghan people will enjoy a similar level of pseudo freedom as the Iranian people now enjoy.
I still believe in our mission in that forsaken country. I believe in the necessity to prevent the Taliban to go back to its harboring of terrorists inside the Afghan borders. I also believe that many Afghan people are not happy at the prospective return of the Taliban ways of handling social issues.
So now, as the deadline for the withdrawal of the US troops from that country approaches, one can argue with the significance of what was achieved in that nation, what dividend we received from such high level of sacrifice.
In Germany, Japan and South Korea we can see three nations living in freedom and prosperity.
In Vietnam, it was a political failure to thwart the sacrifice made in blood.
For Afghanistan and Iraq, the pages of history are still being written.
Just my thoughts!
Once again Afghan president Karzai succeeds in pissing off the American people, at least those who pay some attention to that far away conflict and actually give a damn about our Military.
United States Ambassador Karl Eikenberry in a speech on Sunday, indirectly warned the leadership in Kabul that the American people are getting sick and tired of being called occupiers in the country where so many sons and daughters of America spilled their blood.
Even if Eikenberry did not mention Karzai by name, his remarks were obviously in response to the content of a meeting that Karzai had also on Sunday, with the Iranian minister of Defense, the very first such high level visit from a representative of the Iranian regime to Kabul.
During such visit, the two officials addressed the increasing problems that the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan represents.
The statements from Karzai and Ahmad Vahidi follow some meetings that the former had with Ahmadinejad just last week in Kazakhstan.
In the first place, the blood of over 1,500 American KIAs was spilled in the attempt to eliminate Afghanistan's safe heaven for those who attacked us on September 11, 2001, and give the people of Afghanistan a chance at a better life, but it is obvious that allowing Karzai to be the political leader of that nation has been a grave mistake for our troops and for the Afghan people.
Karzai and his government are probably some of the most corrupted leaders that have graced this planet, and it has been thanks to the sacrifice of the so-called occupiers that he is still alive and able to spew his crap without someone sticking an IED up his ass.
What about the sudden closeness between Karzai and Teheran? In few words, it is something that we Americans asked for when we introduced the outrageous concept of timeline into a armed conflict. Just the knowledge of such action being initiated this summer is enough for Karzai to seek the sympathy of his thuggish neighbor.
It is also well known and documented that the Iranian regime has been tactically and logistically aiding the Taliban in their fight against the US Military and the Afghan government forces. So basically is now sucking up to the same people who have been actually slaughtering his own people. Which makes me wonder about the possibility that Karzai has been in bed with Teheran for some time now, just playing his double face with Washington.
So what are we left with? Realistically, two venues. We can either take all our troops out, practically leaving scorched Earth behind, meaning completely destroy every installation and piece of equipment we cannot carry out, or we could send Karzai to pound sand somewhere else and establish a similar situation like we did in Japan after 1945. In that case, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was the de facto governor of that nation and in charge of its reconstruction.
The callousness Karzai is displaying toward the suffering of his people and the bleakness of their future is for me enough justification for sending the piece of camel shit packing. Wonder how long he would survive without American forces guarding his ass.
Finally, I am completely incensed by the actions of the Afghan president as I think about all the families still mourning the death of their loved ones who died so that the Afghan people would be rid of the scourge of Taliban and al Qaeda terrorists inside their borders.
It is a true dishonor to our fallen for this man to be consorting with the same government that has been working hard to insure that the Afghan people will enjoy a similar level of pseudo freedom as the Iranian people now enjoy.
I still believe in our mission in that forsaken country. I believe in the necessity to prevent the Taliban to go back to its harboring of terrorists inside the Afghan borders. I also believe that many Afghan people are not happy at the prospective return of the Taliban ways of handling social issues.
So now, as the deadline for the withdrawal of the US troops from that country approaches, one can argue with the significance of what was achieved in that nation, what dividend we received from such high level of sacrifice.
In Germany, Japan and South Korea we can see three nations living in freedom and prosperity.
In Vietnam, it was a political failure to thwart the sacrifice made in blood.
For Afghanistan and Iraq, the pages of history are still being written.
Just my thoughts!
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