My latest in PJ Media:
It’s classic animal abuse, but PETA is nowhere to be found. The Independent reported Tuesday that “the US has stopped exporting bomb-sniffing dogs to Egypt and Jordan after a number of animals died from mistreatment and neglect, US authorities said.” However, the stoppage is only temporary. More dogs are going to be sent to those countries, and more are going to die.
This is because U.S. authorities have no earthly idea what could possibly be the motive of Egyptian and Jordanian law enforcement in mistreating these dogs. The explanation is simple, but since it lies outside the bounds of the military establishment’s politically correct fantasies regarding Islam, it will almost certainly never be acknowledged.
The fact that the decision to stop sending these highly trained dogs to Egypt and Jordan is only “temporary” shows that those who run the Antiterrorism Assistance Explosive Detection Canine Program, “which was established by the US government in 1983 to provide training and supplies to foreign law enforcement personnel,” think that whatever is leading the Egyptians and Jordanians to mistreat these dogs is a passing fancy, and that soon cooler heads will prevail.
Or maybe they think they will have a sit-down with the Egyptian and Jordanian law enforcement personnel and explain to them that the sniffer dogs respond better when they’re not starved or kicked, and then everyone will have a good laugh over this little misunderstanding, and everything will be all right.
The American officials may think all the Americans need to do is explain to the Egyptians and Jordanians that, as a State Department official put it, these dogs “play a critical role in our counterterrorism efforts overseas and in saving American lives.”
There is much more. Read the rest here.