If we just stay there a few more years, I'm sure we can turn these people around. They've just been misled. I think they're good people, but they just need a chance to prove it.
religion's a helluva drug
Normal muslim behavior.
Yeah, just a few more years and they will be playing baseball, eating hamburgers and apple pie, and driving Fords and Chevrolets. God Bless America.
If Afghanistan had a baseball team, what would they be called? The Kabul Brown Skins? The Khandahar Mountain Goats? The Tora Bora Boomers? The Kabul ALLLLLLLAAAHHHH ACCKKBBARRRSSS?
Snitches get beheadings...
"Do you know what it means to serve in the occupied Palestinian territories?" With these words, Breaking the Silence has released stunning new testimonies from former soldiers, six Israeli women.
Very upsetting. Raw brutalization and debasement. Who cannot weep when they hear these women's stories of degradation? This society has lost its soul, and these brave witnesses are open about the damage, so as to try and save Israel and Palestine-- the politics are irrelevant to this work.
"You can't think that they're good hardworking people trying to survive in a closed, place."
"Later I realized that in order to be there you have to break them, break their spirit. Breaking them means making them wait, blindfolding them, treating them badly, writing 'Death to Arabs' on their vests."
"Putting cigarettes out on them."
One describes a smiling girl who transforms into the "roadblock queen," a tyrant adored by Israeli soldiers.
Several describe routine thefts from Palestinians: of prayer beads, pottery, food. What is wrong with taking gifts? one said to herself.
Another: We could do whatever we wanted.
And the psychic damage of oppression is foremost in these women's minds. That's why they're coming forward. One says she paid a high high price for her service, and so has her entire society.
"People don't know what's going on there."
[quote]occupy my tent wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/10/world/asia/afghanistan-violence/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
In all likelihood, this is a BS story
They still have some way to go to catch up with US soldier Robert Bales who killed 16 innocent unarmed villagers, mostly women & children, then set fire to them.