It seems as if actions in Afghanistan are slowly beginning to run out of control, which I might add is not surprising. Whenever you have a bunch of young men, with loaded weapons, that are in a rather confined area, left somewhat to their own devises.....well the unthinkable can happen, locals can get shot dead, some of the women can get themselves raped, holy books can get burned and the enemy can get shot and pissed on.
None of this is surprising to me, it happens in every war, whenever you mix a bunch of different minded individuals’ together, violins is always part of the end result. It’s one of the reasons that the "best laid plans of men and mice" never works out, it's called the human factor. When are we going to heed the obvious, that man is basically flawed and needs to be controlled and looked after, in war, with a loaded weapon, in a foreign land, with women, the weak and rushed lying around, ready to be dominated?
U.S. officials didn't mean for any of this to happen, officials thought that a pattern of safety nets were in place to correct any of these urges, but obviously the "safety net" failed. Political, expert and public United States officials are never prepared for public shootings, or rape, or burning of important books, or any of the other unacceptable activity that war breeds.
They say that it is a "break-down, a misunderstanding, or a couple bad apples in amongst all the good. What they really are thinking is, "we hope a couple bad apples won't upset the apple cart." But in the case of burning Qurans, pissing on the dead and randomly shooting men, women and children, the "apple cart" was kicked off its wheels and thrown down a hillside.
In the illustrious words of leading foreign policy expert Robert Kagan, "anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned, doesn't know what he is talking about." Oh yah Bobby, I guess you didn't know that "some" U.S. military personnel didn't know a Playboy magazine from a Quran, or that some soldiers might have a sudden urge to urinate on people that they had just shot, or that some jerk would go crazy.....deep into the night, and go around town shooting men, women and children dead.
"Our mission in Afghanistan" seems to change like the weather in Wisconsin, sometimes from hour to hour. Didn't you and your pals, "Bobby", ever think that maybe a mission changes so often it might become a bit frustrating to military personnel.
Does it sound like I'm "picking" on Robert Kagan.....I sure hope so, because I AM! I have always carried distaste for book experts, people that help forge foreign policy and never live "on the ground" activity in the country that they are talking about. It is a recipe for disasters that are happening right now in Afghanistan and I'm sure having happened in the past but have been repressed.
If the United States continues to serve as the worlds cop, we need to be prepared for the kind of fall-out that stupid mistakes made by kids bring. We need to understand that these "experts" calling the shots are standing right next to the young G.I.'s that have a wide eyed innocence to the fall-out from their uncontrolled actions.
Is the power of the United States in decline, I don't know, and worse, I really don't care, I guess I would as soon be equal with other countries, to share in knowledge, to share in traditions, hell, to share in cooking recipes.
Why is it that our experts figure that we need to be "above" everybody else? Who is keeping score? Where are the referees? And which countries have teams in whatever league we are playing in? Money, money, money is the driving force. Shame on you people and remember, I do not need your representation, thank you, I am more than capable of getting along on my own, I have no illusions about where the U.S. is in the pecking order of the World's nations.
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