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For months now, the Democratic Party and left-wing activists have accused Republicans of conducting “a war on women.”
Well, check out this horrific scene in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. The Taliban have been accused of beheading 15 men and two women for having a party in an area of that province controlled by the Taliban. The two women were apparently dancing.
So the next time President Obama or his surrogates suggest Republicans are engaging in “a war on women” they ought to be reminded that it is President Obama who is seeking to negotiate the return of the Taliban back into power. And if that happens, then will you see a real war on women.
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Albert Constantine Jr.| 8.27.12 @ 5:07PM
War is a term only to be employed as a metaphor. An actual war, where belligerents take the lives of those with whom they are in conflict (armed or otherwise, regardless of any conventions or law of war), are topics to be avoided by the left (unless, of course, it is James Hoffa, Jr., calling for “an army” to “take the sons of b*#&$ out”, as noted in Mr. Kaminsky’s article earlier today), unless it is to call for our troops to get out, or ignore the atrocities of those forces aligned with the left.
Trinacria| 8.27.12 @ 5:57PM
I dunno; I don't want to see Afghans killed anymore than the next guy, but I'm not willing to trade American lives for them either. Let's be frank, our intervention in Afghanistan never was (and never should have been) about rescuing Afghans; it was about protecting America from terrorism. End of story.
There's no shortage of domestic and foreign policy failures (disasters, actually) to use against the current Complainer in Chief; making nice with bad guys hardly distinguishes him from any past administration (or does anyone care to make the argument that Saudi Arabia is a paradise for women?).
PCC| 8.27.12 @ 6:49PM
If Governor Romney wishes to electrify the nation and steal a march on President Obama, he would boldly declare in his nomination acceptance speech that his first act as president would be the complete and immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from the AfPak toilet. Election won, lives saved, sanity restored.
Trinacria| 8.27.12 @ 11:34PM
Amen, brother! The notion that we would sacrifice even a single American life in the farcical exercise of training these people to comport themselves like rational beings who are capable of governing themselves in a manner that even remotely resembles a civil society is absurd on its face. Governor Romney would be well served to call this what it is (a rancid unsalvageable shit hole) and commit to an immediate cessation of this foolish charade.
JP| 8.28.12 @ 7:36AM
But followed up by Operation Rolling Thunder II. Just a thought. I don't think our forces have the resources anymore to conduct such an excercise.
Occam's Tool| 8.28.12 @ 3:07PM
I am not a big fan of putting "boots on the ground" in these situations---it does allow for more precise targetting of objectives and minimizes innocent civilian casualties; but my view is that in the ME the correct ration of Western: Indigenous casualties should be 1000 to 1 (established by the Palestinians in their trade for Shalit---karma is a bitch, boys). Therefore, if civilian/enemy causalties are removed as a concern (a la "Bomber" Harris and "Sailor" Malan, who are heroes of mine), smash the enemy from the air and cause mass destruction without concern for civilian outcomes.
These folks don't wage "war" in a decent fashion, and they are barbaric in a "Hanna-Barbera" fashion to their own. Get the women and female children out of there if we can and beat the remaining to a pulp.
Occam's Tool| 8.28.12 @ 3:09PM
Sorry: "ratio," not "ration." I do believe in trying to rescue the Women and Girl children who want education and decent conditions, but Taliban men are beasts worthy of killing.