Pull out of Afghanistan now
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Yes I said it. Not that I think it is the right answer but when the Administration automatically listens to Karzai and the Taliban, what choice do I have. The President and the Sec of State went on the record by speaking in front of foreign leaders and the cameras to apologize for a supposed friendly bombing by US forces before the smell of cordite has even blown off the battlefield.
US media is not even trustworthy without doing fact-checking, but now our Government is going to automatically listen to the enemy’s propaganda machine. The President and Secretary Clinton have done to our military in Afghanistan what Murtha did to the Marines in Haditha; condemned the brave warriors trying to fight the enemy long before any investigation has happened to show if they are innocent or guilty.
How can they do that and then ever look another member of the military in the face ever again. How can they shake their hands telling them how proud they are of the military, knowing damn well they are ready to throw them under the bus in a second.
The enemy is…well the enemy. They beat and execute innocent people, mostly Muslims and mostly women and kids. They throw acid in girls faces for trying to go to school. They cut the heads off of not only journalists and US military members, but also fellow Afghans (all the time but you never hear about it.) Yet I guess none of that matters or takes away from their credibility because not only is the mainstream media reporting it as fact, so is the President and Secretary Clinton.
Karzai is a friggen tool. I don’t like him, I can’t stand him, I friggen hate him. Can I be any more clear than that? I know my friend, WOTN, and I don’t agree but so be it. Karzai is a corrupt, opium supporting, woman hating, did I say Corrupt? Oh yeah I did. He steals valuable and dirty Afghanistan oxygen every time he breathes in. The enemy loves it that Karzai is “demanding” that US stop air strikes, because air strikes are the biggest threat to them. We kill them in droves with air strikes, and unfortunately we sometimes kill innocent people.
That sucks, there is no doubt about it. But that is what we call a casualty of war. Just because the enemy hides in a house of innocent people and shoots at us from there, does not mean we cannot engage them. Hell we can’t normally shoot a mosque, but if there is known enemy in there either hiding or shooting at us we can blow it up. It loses it protected status under the Geneva Convention the second that an enemy engages our forces from a religious building, and that also applies to any house in the battle space.
So how do we stop it? Well until the Afghan Security Forces are able to stop it, until the Afghan people stand up for themselves and not allow the enemy into their villages (like the Hazaras do), or until we kill enough of them so there are not that many to hide among innocent civilians then there is probably no way it will stop.
The bottom line is this, if our President as the Commander-in-Chief is not going to stand up for the military he leads, to afford them the basic rights we all enjoy in the United States (innocent until proven guilty), or at least investigate the facts before making statements against out military then our military should not be in harms way. We should immediately pull back all US forces to our country and put them back on their home bases. At least until we get a leader that will support the men and women he leads.
Oh as a side note, Gen McKeirnan made several statements over the weekend that he was not sure all of those civilian deaths were caused by US Forces, essentially contradicting the President and Secretary of State. Today Gen McKeirnan was surprisingly fired.
Coincidence? I think not.
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