Certainly not the desired result of the best of America’s courageous young men and women who gave so many lives and limbs, not to mention the blood and sweat of all those who toiled at trying to give the Afghans schools, hospitals, homes, jobs, and better lives.
Covered in blood amid a tangled heap of dead mothers and children, 12-year-old Tarana Akbari punctuates the chaotic aftermath of a suicide attack with a scream for help.
Daily Mail When it appeared on the front page of the New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times on December 7 2011, this image brought home the bloody reality of a war that has devastated the lives of ordinary people across Afghanistan.
Today it was honoured with a Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s highest accolade. It was taken by Massoud Hossaini who happened to be covering a Shiite religious ceremony at a shrine in Kabul for Agence France-Presse when the bomb ripped through the crowd. Sixty-three people were killed.
Time to leave the Afghans to their fate.
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Bob, if you want to advertise Glenn Beck products here, you’ll have to buy advertising space. –BNI
I’m to the point where I’m starting to think this is just a “write-off” race.
They complain when you try to help them, yet complain when you don’t. Yet they do nothing to help themselves.
And when, in recent history, have they contributed anything towards technology, culture, art or a better quality of life?
They do nothing but whine, complain and try their hardest to make everybody else on this earth as miserable as they are.
Plus they do absolutely nothing at all to try to get along with other muslims, much less non-muslims.
They’re like a grade school bully who tries to beat the crap out of you, steals your lunch money, constantly rats you out to the teacher yet cries like a big baby when you refuse to go to his birthday party and buy him an expensive present.
At this point I really think, that for the most part, they are irredeemable.
Well said – and that’s a typical Muslim character-trait, that they can NEVER be wrong!!! Only the others can be wrong, especially as kuffars/kufrs/kaffirs/etc. ad nauseam.
Absolutely we should leave Afghanistan and ALL Muslim countries – and we should throw out every last single practising Muslim man, woman and child irrespective of age!!!!! Once a complete state of apartheid is implemented between the West and the Islamic world, we should next proceed to isolate the latter culturally, economically, diplomatically and in ALL other ways!!!
Also, the next time we go to war, we must be given totally-FREE hands the way we were in World War II. The evil trait of Americans no longer being able to do what was necessary can be traced back to Harry Truman in 1950 or so, when he didn’t allow Douglas MacArthur to invade China for fear of provoking World War III with both the Chinese Communists AND the USSR…
Well put Chundog
and this is the result of to what extent they will go to their supposed loved ones. God, dear Lord I am sick of these types of actions, and we the ones who bore the end result of these heathens and their maddness are considered potential terrorist, by our own grubmint. They wonder why there are a few of us who know what is needed, how to implement it and are willing to do the deed, they are afraid of us because they too understand how correct we are in our assertions. One day you bon of ah sitches, one day. These demons in the flesh are nothing short of wicked followers of a santanic cult. They do this to their loved ones, imagine what they are really capable of, and you will understand why I, and many of my kind want so desperatly to go postal on the whole lot of them. Semper Fi.
I feel very bad for the women and children, not the men in general. If there is one reason to stay in Afghanistan, it is for them.
However, I’ve said it before: we must leave.
They themselves must fight their own war: equip every family with 2 AK-47s and ammunition for one year, grenades and whatever, teach them how to use them through group classes, and leave.
Last man standing gets it all?
as an old viet nam vet I can say the bitter taste of this noble effort to make a better life for women and children only to see it undone is one I have tasted before.
BLR, and one in which we lost ten times as many Americans. Both times, the military was not permitted to fight the war the way it was fought in WWII. Tragic.
yes it is especially when the ‘rules of engagement’ are only followed by one side.
Add the Korean War – remember what happened with Douglas MacArthur (as I pointed out in another posting here)?
The American presidents of the last nearly 70 years, excluding possibly Ronald Reagan, have at heart been COWARDS!!!!
By joining the UN they gave away their back bones. But the people have not. Ike, told the Chinese negotiations or get nuked! Reagan pushed had on the Russians for reduction in tensions. All the rest had to take pols to see if they could kill and enemy. BO is the enemy and we had better not forget it.
You are absolutely right. Sun Tzu would have laughed at our military operations, today. Not that they can’t conduct war like those in World War II. It’s that they have orders not to.
always remember the cowards today calling themselves leaders, ” we musent hurt their feelings” afterall, divercity would be gravely degraded if we do, pathetic, just plain pathetic, in my youth this would be grounds for a firing squad.as a matter of fact, it still is.
As it should be!
Grenades will not kill Islam. Ideological warfare will kill Islam. Our Western countries MUST hire the greatest scholars in the word to DEMOLISH this evil philosophy of murder, mayhem and misogyny.
Islam is so evil it cannot be true.
The information is easily availablem perveptor. The extensive, highly detailed reports from Mohammed’s life, his words and deeds from his biography and “traditions,” enabled a number of professional medical analysis in Mohammed’s mental condition and the likely causes:
Historian Theophanes (752-817), believed Muhammad was an epileptic.
Medical historian Armin Geus speaks of a paranoid hallucinatory schizophrenia.
Dede Korkut, MD, gives a similar analysis in The Medical Case of Muhammad.
Herman Somers, MD, PhD argues acromegaly in The other Muhammad (1992).
Masud Ansari, MD, PhD, in Psychology of Mohammed: Inside the Brain of a Prophet, calls Muhammad “the perfect personification of a psychopath in power.”
Ali Sena, Muslim apostate and author: posits in his latest book that Muhammad was a narcissist, a pedophile, a mass murderer, a terrorist, a misogynist, a lecher, a cult leader, a madman, a rapist, a torturer, an assassin and a looter. Sina has offered $50,000 US dollars for the first one who can prove otherwise.
Where did the Qur’an originate? See: “The Sources of Islam – A Persian Treatise,” by Rev. W. St. Clair-Tisdall, M.A., Translated by Sir William Muir, K.C.S.L., D.C.L., LL.D, PhD, first published 1901, or “The Sources of Islam, An Abridged Reprint” © 2011 CSPI, LLC. What else do we need?
Time is what will kill islam. At some point in the future humans will look back in disbelief that there could possibly be such a thing with so many sheepish, stupid, murderous followers as islam.
I totally agree perceptor1 but nobody’s listening. This ‘evil philosophy of murder’ HAS been demolished – on completely rational grounds – but nobody’s listening. Read Theo van Gogh’s book.
Amen !!
…oh dear.The negotiations with the taliban will only worsen the situation…
That’s what our lying president , and others, want.
A pipe line of money and drugs!
The good news is that after we leave, they will continue to kill each other, with gusto, for free. The sooner we leave, the better. About that innocent victim thing I keep hearing about. First, the extent to which any war can have some people placed off limits (innocent) is only possible when every fighting group agrees. This rarely happens. In the middle east, it never will. Therefore, there are no innocent victims in Afghanistan. I don’t say so, Islam and the Taliban say so. It’s better if idealistic notions conjured up in classrooms don’t interfere with policy making and war winning. Islam precludes self rule. Barbarism precludes any success with limited rules of engagement. They understand, fear and respect total war and very little else. The kindly American style of war is just stupid. Can the troops come home now please?
“ISLAM” should be the one-word headline.
This describes better than a thousand words what Islam is and what Islam does…
…the DEATH CLUB FOR INBRED, BRAINDEAD MEN.
they don’t want us there so lets leave and let them mutlate there young girls–rape them and kill each other off in the name of allha
As I have always said and truly believe, we have no need to be there, because Suni and Sh’ite will kill themselves out totally in the years to come. They want to convert the world to Islam, so which one do we choose? They are both so stupid and barbaric. Just walk away and leave then alone. Save our money and resources for our own people and dont squander it on these jerks.
Keep a few “boomers” in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
It seems to me the west fiddled with the islamic world totally clueless as to the nature of islam. As clueless as Mr Clapper on the muslim brotherhood. With a muslim sitting in the White House and a usurper to boot I think we have an existential and immediate threat at this moment. Bring the troops home now.The november election will be a doozy. Aside from the virtual certainty of big war in the middle east there is the possibilty of civil unrest throughout the west… of the shooting kind.
yeah there are literally millions of us who are thinking the same, you are not alone, trust me, the ones responsible for putting this nation in this mess it is in, are going to be the last ones to get the memo, with their names on it for a reason. bag and tag’m time. Already ready and still training others with like mind. Good luck and may God protect you and yours. Semper Fi.
It’s Islam. Not radical Islam. Just Islam. So obvious yet we are led by politicians, media, academics and an endless stream of ‘experts’ who intentionally deceive us. They tell us we need to let in more Muslims, more Palestinians, more Pakistanis, more Somalians. Why? To destroy us.
Stop wasting the lives of our brave soldiers and our tax dollars on a war that is unwinable because the looney muslims love war more than they love their children. Why do we not just leave these hell holes to their continued years of murdering each other?
Yes. IF we need to put troops ANYWHERE, let them go to South Sudan, where they’d be appreciated by the Christians there.
Why should I be surprised Bonni….
Nicely presented….well said…..and well done….
Thank you and please keep up the good work.
Regards, Don Laird
Edson, Alberta, Canada
Thanks, Don.
I’ve been a die-hard pro-war fighting al-Qaeda and the Taliban; but even I have to admit what the Soviets had to 30 years ago – and the Brits more than a century ago: Namely, Afghan is not worth fighting for. We tried – and the American people thought they saw progress; but, like weeds in a cemetery which can’t all be pulled out or mowed over, the Taliban just grows, multiplies and overtakes everything.
I’m most sorry, of course, for the women and the girls of that sad country: There was so much hope for their education and opportunity to live better lives. But the weeds of the Taliban are growing up again – and will choke the life out of every other thing growing around them. Better let the cemetary return to a state of violent nature…
Joy, remember that the inbreeding not only affects the men, but the women as well. They are in a downward spiral to zombie-ville… Not only are they going down the tubes, but they are fighting to be at the head of the queue. This is nature at her best…selecting the worthwhile survivors.
What are we doing in this hellhole of a country? Trying to bring democracy to such moronic Neanderthalers is like Sisyfus trying to roll a rock up a hill in Hades — it can’t be done. American officers tried to teach some Afghan men how to be policemen — they couldn’t read or write and so couldn’t write down the rules or read them on paper, and couldn’t learn. These people are savages, barbarians — let them have their dictators, that’s the right kind of gov’t for them, what they understand and are used to. America and all Western countries should never step a foot in Islamic countries, let them chop off hands and feet, beat their wives, marry off their baby daughters to old horny men and kill their teen-age daughters for committing the sin of wanting to develop their personalities and choose their own clothes.
America, get out of Afghanistan, no more aid to this great unwshed mass of scum, Obama bin Laden went there with his millions and could have built schools and roads and raised the living standard, but he only made the people miserable. Let the Saudis or other rich Islamic countries help these downtrodden illiterate morons, but not America. America should spend every penny of American money on Americans in need. Let the Afghans blow each other up — this is the best fate for them.
First, get out of Afghaistan. Then eliminate the “rules of engagement”.
Rules of engagement are basically suicidal.
To chang the situation we must get rid of the weenies who made the rules.
Starting with the traitor in the white house who left our troops in danger while he diddled about in a quandry.
I advocate Genghis Khan or Shaka’s Rules of Engagement:
“The enemy is there. Destroy him…”
The link below also says it nicely enough, in my opinion. *delete if you deem it inappropriate*
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Friday I opened my 3rd graders folder when he came home from school to empty out a week of papers, when I came across a “TIME FOR KIDS” AROUND THE WORLD magazine.
First off, I hate this Time magazine that we as parents have to purchase at the beginning of the year, because if you don’t, you put your child in a wierd position. The Time magazines are liberal propaganda material. Thank goodness I make sure I undermine everything written in those rags when it hits the house in my child’s folder.
This Time series was about “AFGHANISTAN” “Find out what life is like in this Asian Country. What is it like to live in Afghanistan? Here’s how one boy spends his day. It wasn’t written about a young girl and how she spends her day. The boy lives with his parents, three brothers and five sisters in Kabul. It mentions the Taliban, and the war torn country but the photos depict this family praying, eating together, going to school (boys with girls) and playing soccer like it’s all normal. It has an entire page dedicated to the “Friday Mosque, and 800 year old restoration project. It tries to get children to speak a few words in Pashto and Dari.
I was pissed when I saw this in my kids backpack. Why the hell do these children have to take five minutes out of their learning to find out about a culture and religion of people who live all the way across the globe?
M5, too bad you couldn’t go your child’s school to tell them what they really do with little girls there. And what the Taliban does with the few girls schools that are there.
I’m pretty sure that you might remember that my husband is a first responder, FDNY, survived 9/11 and remained there digging for human remains week after week and month after month until the city said they could no longer, about 8 or 9 months of grief and devastation. My youngest child wasn’t born then, but my other four were, and old enough to understand the “lesson” first hand, for they suffered too. Children like my youngest and even children who didn’t experience the terrorism first hand, (the way my children did,or the way other children lost a loved one, like a parent)are not taught about 9/11 in school. However, they are taught about some backward culture like it matters to their lives when it won’t and it hasn’t. The only connection made for the rest of my children is that the so called religion that these Afghanistan children are taught inspired the death of thousands of innocent Americans on our own soil and almost killed their father. If I do raise this issue with the teacher, and I am seriously considering it, it will be to point out just what I wrote above. My children don’t need a lesson about the life and times and religion of some backward culture, a religion that almost took the life of their precious father away.
Do you think I should do that?
M5, absolutely. I’d love to hear what she says.
I’m all for doing what we can to spare the innocents this fate, but when they hold allegiance to those that commit these atrocities, it’s hard not to believe that they are just bleeding us for whatever they can get from us. Both Afghanistan and Pakistan seem to be “Muslims first, Humans second”. If this is the case, then there really can be no salvation for the powerless there. I hate to turn my back on the desparate, but if they cannot or will not seize this epic opportunity for civility, that they are not worth the blood of our Finest, Bravest and Strongest. As it is, we are supporting the brother of the world’s second largest heroin trafficker. Insane.
OK,
but it fits the discussion, I was showing only the t-shirt on glennbeckstuff.com, not trying to sell anything, I woldn’t make a dime if someone bought it…