A murderer found his excuse. As with the rampages reported earlier, such incidents would not happen without pre-existing dysfunction within the society: the inclination and the understanding that it would be ok to kill, or to destroy property, or generally to wallow in collective rage in the event of certain insults or offenses. This is not the making of stable self-government, because self-government depends on the government of the self, not on looking for excuses, on the individual, community, societal, and governmental level.
Does murdering two people un-burn the Qur'ans? No. But it is not ultimately about the Qur'ans. "2 U.S. troops killed in Koran backlash," by Tucker Reals for CBS News, February 23:
(CBS News) Two U.S. troops have been shot to death and four more wounded by an Afghan solider who turned his gun on his allies in apparent anger over the burning of Korans at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, an Afghan official tells CBS News.
A statement from the International Security Assistance Force - Afghanistan, the international coalition in the country, confirmed that two troops were killed in Eastern Afghanistan on Thursday by "an individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform."ISAF does not typically give the nationality of casualties until family members have been notified, but the CBS News source in the Afghan government said those killed and injured in the attack in the Khogyani district of the eastern Ningarhar province along the border with Pakistan were Americans.
The source also said the shooting appeared to be motivated by the burning of Korans at the sprawling U.S. Bagram air base, north of Kabul, but he did not provide additional details as to what led him to that conclusion....
We have seen enough of these cases that it may also be simply the excuse du jour.
Marisol. It appears you forgot to close the italic tag around "excuse du jour" it's making the entire front page below it italic.
Uh, well, for a split second I just really, really wanted to emphasize... everything.
Sorry about that! I just fixed it.
Marisol: I can tell you one thing. my own son is a marine and has served one tour in afghanistan and it looks as though they may send him again. I can tell you this if he ever gets harmed by any afghani solders, I my self make mu way there and do a few of in.
M
These deaths are totally preventable.
Will General John Allen be taping a video to express his extreme sadness and displeasure over these latest in a long string of murders of his troops at the hands of our trusted ally, the noble Afghan Army?
Courts-martial to follow, no doubt.
Somehow I don't think the fawning apologies of both General Allen and Sec. of Defence Penetta had much effect on these Afghan muslim savages. Oh well: what's a little more American blood & treasure spent on wortless COIN tactics and naive nation-building among a stone-age people drunk on the violent teachings of a phony prophet?
The topper is that Muslims may be using their own qurans to send messages back and forth to one another. Who is 'defiling' the sacred book?
I wonder how soon it will be before the US receives an apology from the Afghan gov't official expressing his sorrow over this travesty.
Outrageous. American and NATO soldiers should not have to be sitting ducks for this kind of treachery. In Afghanistan we should only have small military forces directed to take out specific enemy targets. We should not require them to be sitting targets who are exposed to all kinds of opportunistic deceptive murderous treachery.
The Army doesn't seem to care about exposing our troops to these psychos. They consider these almost weekly 'work place' murders manageable it appears. Did the commanders even consider a cooling-off period after the koran burnings, where our guys are kept away from their 'allies?'
This is what Karzai said, in part, from a HotAir article:
“NATO officials promised to meet Afghan nation’s demand of bringing to justice, through an open trial, those responsible for the incident and it was agreed that the perpetrators of the crime be brought to justice as soon as possible.”
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He's not talking about the murderer who open-fired and killed and wounded our servicemen.
He's talking about the poor shlubs that tossed the bags into the fire, unknowingly.
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OUT OF AFGHANISTAN NOW!
Karzai is a corrupt, opium-peddling pseudo-Mohammedist.
He's slimy and foul. Cut him off and let's see how long he stays clear of a beheading.
On the subject of Islamic Rage.
Here is V S Naipaul, in 'Among the Believers' (1981; 2010).
In chapter 4, 'The Rice Goddess' (he is in Indonesia), Naipaul speaks of 'the flaw that ran right through Islamic history: to the political issues it raised, it offered no political or practical solution. It offered only the faith. It offered only the Prophet, who wold settle everything - but who had ceased to exist. This political Islam was rage, anarchy".
Then, in Chapter 7: "The Interchangeable Revolutions".
"'To replace all this'. **Islam sanctified rage** {my emphasis - dda} - rage about the faith, political rage: one could be like the other. And more than once on this journey [ that is, from newly-Islamic Iran through Pakistan and Malaysia to Indonesia - dda] I had met sensitive men who were ready to contemplate great convulsions".
And in the same chapter, a Muslim businessman from Sulawesi, in Jakarta, says to Naipaul: "We have to kill a lot of people. We have to kill one or two million of these Javanese...", and then, again, the same man tells Naipaul -
"The fight that's coming will be between the people in the universities and the people in the pesantren [that is, the madrasas - dda]. One day the students from the pesantren will come to Jakarta and burn down this nice hotel.
**"Islam can become a cocaine. It makes you high. You go to that mosque and you get high. And when you get high, everything that happens becomes Allah's will".** {my emphasis - dda}.
'It had happened before in Indonesia, this mass slaughter. In 1965 the communists had been wiped out. A million people had been killed, he said, not half a million, as was now given out. And more should have been killed: there were two and a half million commiunists at the time. So a million and a half had escaped killing, and many of them were still around....".
Naipaul puts his finger on it: Islam *sanctifies* rage - mob rage that can lead to orgies of vandalism, orgies of mass murder.
Why go to their country when there is enough of them here. Save some money at the same time. I say we get out of that country and then burn more qurans in this country. And this is just another group looking for an excuse to kill people, right or wrong. Then we get the Dumbo out of the White House. Now wait, get the dumbo out first then burn the qurans.
Let's write to Congress (www.congress.org):
Dear Representative:
Qur'ans were used in Afghanistan as a means of communications by the enemy combatants. Those ciphers/communiques were intercepted, confiscated, and destroyed so the enemy combatants could never have access to them. But, because Sharia law forbids the burning of Qur'ans, our President is apologizing and promising to follow Sharia law instead of U.S. law. The same tactic is used when enemy combatants hold up in mosques, and are assured of a safe place from which to shoot at U.S. troops. The same tactic is used when human shields are used and killed, and the responsibility is placed on U.S. troops instead of those who use human shields and the U.S. pays blood money (prescribed by Sharia law) to the families of human shields, accomplices, and jihadists themselves. Our troops were used like this for ten years with their hands tied and the enemy combatants protected by Sharia law. This weakening and killing off of our troops was only used to procure Islamic democracies with Islamic Constitutions enforced by Sharia law. Now, President Obama has sent our troops to Africa to fight against the only opposition force to the genocidal jihad conquering the oil-rich countries of Africa. This outrageous and seditious waste of the lives and health of U.S. troops must stop.
As a member of the United States Congress, I am asking and expecting you to put an end to enforcement of Sharia law by U.S. troops, to redefine the parameters when fighting against Islamic enemy combatants, to place the responsibility for using human shields, mosques, and Qur'ans squarely on the shoulders of those who use them, and to prohibit and forbid U.S. troops from being subjected to Sharia law, officially or unofficially. Let U.S. troops only be used to support the U.S. Constitution, let them only answerable to U.S. law, and only deployed when the safety of U.S. citizens is in eminent jeopardy. Station U.S. troops at U.S. borders and stop them from being used as pawns in the Muslim Brotherhood's global jihad.
Afghanistan: 2 U.S. troops killed, 4 wounded by Afghan soldier, reportedly over latest round of Qur'an Rage
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Just more actions by the "noble Afghan people" as the groveling General Allen describes them...