Proposed Army manuel tells G.I.s not to insult Taliban, speak up for women

So the new proposed handbook for Americans serving in Afghanistan warns soldiers that a number of attacks on coalition forces were caused by "ignorance of, or lack of empathy for, Muslim and/or Afghan cultural norms" and in order to halt such attacks, the soldiers must be sure to not offend the "Muslim and/or Afghan" by avoiding some "taboo conversation topics." These topics include "making derogatory comments about the Taliban," "advocating women's rights," "any criticism of pedophilia," "directing any criticism toward Afghans," "mentioning homosexuality and homosexual conduct" or "anything related to Islam." So I guess the ham Christmas dinner is out?

This is absolutely insane. It's already a damn shame that thousands of soldiers have died for what will amount to not a damn thing when we pull out of Afghanistan allowing the Taliban to waltz back in and take over again like we we're never there, but now we are forcing the soldiers that are still there to be nice to the Taliban!?! Maybe 11 years is a long time for people's painfully short attention spans to remember, but the Taliban ARE THE BAD GUYS!!

The Taliban are the strict Muslim sect that restrict individual liberty. They're the ones who shot the 14 year old girl because she had the audacity to want an education. They're the ones who gave safe haven to Osama bin Laden, al quada, and other groups who plan and carry out plots to murder innocent people in order to spread fear. I know the word is hardly used anymore...but those are called terrorists. The Taliban are the group that women were protesting on the television show 7th Heaven a few years before 2001 because they are notorious violators of women's rights. (Yes, I watched 7th Heaven when I was a teenager. Jessica Biel was in it. 'Nuff said.) Because women have no rights to them; they're just property.

And now...now we are not only allowing them to abuse women, children, and anyone else they want to in the name of Sharia Law, but we're not even aloud to criticize them for it! You're telling me if a soldier sees a 12 year old girl being married off to a 40 year old, or being violently abused or even murdered because she didn't want to marry a 40 year old...that the soldier can't do or SAY a damn thing about it because it might offend a pedophile!?! Are. You. Serious!? What a bloody crock! Someone needs the smart smacked back into them!

So now I guess our soldiers are fighting in order to enslave people and not to free them anymore. So everyone has basic human liberties...except the Afghan people who only deserve to be enslaved by a deadly and repressive culture. Glad America has finally given up on that whole "liberty for all" thing. After all, 14 year old girls should only be used as sex slaves. To think they should even be allowed outside is so 20th century...

Of course this is only a proposed update at this point and General Allen disapproves, so if there is any sanity left in America this will all be thrown out and never spoken of again. I'm not making any bets on that. But on a positive note, the Obama Administration's decision to actively hire retards seems to be working just fine...because this proposition clearly could only have come from a retard.

Al-Quada on it's heels? The facts would disagree.

My day yesterday was consumed with the Congressional Hearing about the Libya attacks. Hopefully the first of many such hearings because it really only raised more questions than answers. The representatives from the State Department stonewalled many of the questions under grounds that they either didn't have access to such information or that they weren't allowed to talk about things that are classified. A classified hearing is apparently in the works. From what I saw of the hearing, someone needs to be fired...maybe Hillary Clinton. And the big question remaining is who decided to publicize the idea that it was all about a protest gone wrong instead of a concerted terrorist attack, and why did they do that? That question is really the most important one and it needs answers. Until then, all we have is speculation.

One of those speculations is that the Obama Administration did not want to admit it was a terrorist attack because President Obama's main campaign push is that under his watch Osama bin Laden has been killed and terrorism has been all but destroyed. That's what he's touting as his number one foreign policy achievement...and the attack in Benghazi burst that bubble. Lara Logan's reporting has also destroyed that fantasy. Logan is a fantastic reporter working for CBS who has gone to dangerous places in an attempt to get the real stories. She was sexually assaulted and beaten by a crowd of angry Muslim men in Tahrir Square in Egypt while she was covering the so called "Arab Spring." Her courage and resolve goes beyond words. And Sunday, she put into words her account of al-quada, the Taliban, the war in Afghanistan, and Islamic terrorism in a report aired on 60 Minutes. She also spoke about her findings at a dinner the other day. She minced no words, she spoke honestly and clearly, she expressed dismay at the narrative being spun by the politicians in Washington, and she opened up a can of worms that people, up to and including President Obama, have been trying to keep a lid on. Basically, she said al-quada is not dead, the Taliban are not kinder, and Islamic extremists will not let us live in peace even if we choose to let them live in peace. She explained that we are in a war...and that war is not going to end anytime soon, despite what politicians say or what we decide to do about it. She explained that the attack on Libya is an example of the strength and resolve of Islamic terrorists and that ignoring it or painting it as anything other will not only embolden our enemies, it will cause more attacks, more deaths, and more danger not only to our brave men and women in the military but to every American citizen (and every Western civilization) around the world, including here in America. Bin Laden may be dead, but Islamic extremism is not, terrorism is not, and the war on terror is not. If we choose to ignore this or pretend it doesn't exist or believe the lies told to us by politicians seeking re-election....then we are only inviting death and destruction, not only overseas in foreign countries, but right here in the safety of our own homes in our own land and even to our very own way of life. We cannot choose to fight this war, it is upon us whether we want it or not. And unless we fight it with as much intelligence and resolve as our enemies, then we will lose our children's future of freedom and prosperity. We all need to heed Lara Logan's warning, because it's born out of nothing but the truth.