From massive gun confiscations to ignoring what the civilized world considers a crime we no longer export our values.
Well, I don’t see the need for a trip to Leavenworth.
After all, it’s dangerous enough over there to survive that just to take a trip to jail. Folks get killed left and right all the time what with all the snipers and IEDs.
It’s unfortunate, but we can’t protect our allies from everything…
Indifference to sex abuse led to the murder of three Marines. Damn shame.
lawsuit charges that the U.S. military’s indifference to the crime of Afghanistan officials sexually abusing boys led to the killings of three Marines in 2012 by the youthful companion of a corrupt Afghan police chief.
Despite warnings that the chief, Sarwan Jan, and his boy entourage should be expelled from Forward Operating Base Delhi, Marine Corps commanders let him stay. On Aug. 10, one of his “tea boys” walked into the base gym and gunned down the three Marines, including Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. of Long Island, whose parents are fighting out a lawsuit in U.S. District Court.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/22/us-military-indifference-to-afghan-sex-abuse-led-b/
Had this Green Beret addressed the issue more, shall we say, quietly, he may not have found himself being discharged.
Army rejects appeal from soldier discharged after confronting accused Afghan rapist
Even as the U.S. military denies reports that American troops were told to ignore Afghan child abusers, an 11-year Green Beret who was ordered discharged after he confronted an alleged rapist was informed Tuesday that the Army has denied his appeal.
The SF dude’s story you linked to is what put me over the top on this yesterday.
For Christs sake, issue an Artivle 15 and be done with it. Railroaded out? **** that.
You are absolutely right, and no need for a trip to the Kansas big house.
Dude just needed to go “bye bye”, or “night night.”
I don’t see how you can win hearts and minds, while you’re turning a blind eye towards people, in positions of authority, abusing/terrorizing the populace.
SFC Martland was doing what SF does best; Liberating the Oppressed.
Some limp-dicked ass-kissing lifer probably pissed his pants, and proceeded to ruin SFC Martland.
What a ****ing shitshow.
I got in Sooooo many arguments with my professors over this very topic in grad school… It was insanity IMO the position these folks held on the matter. Like that was the dark ages of the profession or something. Ridiculous…
SFC Martland will now be retained by the Army.
**** yeah!
It’s about damned time someone shoved a giant schlong up their asses and forced them to do the right thing. :mad:
I’m sure his career has been completely unaffected by this whole episode. :rolleyes:
The problem with Western Society is that we are caught in two jaws of a vise.
Candy ass Christianity What Would Jesus Do is one jaw and
Burn our culture to the ground progressive moral relativity no culture is superior to another is the other.
If only King Alfred had found out the Pope screwed him over and he said screw it, I am not enforcing Christianity let the Vikings have at it.
We would have colonies on the moon and Mars, be more technologically advanced, have no free loaders, Islam would be a foot note,
And about the only difference would be we have “what would Thor do” bumper stickers and hammer emblems instead of fish symbols on our bumpers.
Aye.
We focus on so much bullshit and ignore the real shit
An odd comment for what the soldiers are said to have thwarted…
Saw that yesterday on FB, now what is DoD going to do with ongoing sexual assaults of boys by Afghan “allies” on US installations?
I concur . . . so called “compassionate conservatives” using their faith as a crutch (weak a$$ sauce) then the other side of the coin are the brainwashed Marxist that want to blitzkrieg Western Civilization and erase it’s history.
Be still my beating heart!
Poetry . . . pure poetry!
I’m reminded of when Obama said that Putin sending Soviet MiGs to blow the shit out of Syria was an “act of weakness”
Meaning?
Hmmmm Space Vikings. I like it. Could be an interesting alternative reality thing. I mean if the other stuff sells… I mean it like space marines, but more adventure and exploring, and seeking glorious death.
Anyone interested in working on a side project together?
Not trying to be a smart alec, but exactly what I said.
We worry about stupid things, as a society, that well adjusted, right thinking people wouldn’t have entertained years back.
Nobody cared about “fairness, equality, diversity, or cause d’jour”.
If you weren’t a free, land owning white male with a solid record, then you really weren’t shit. Nobody cared what you thought. Those that were literally fought tooth and nail to keep what was theirs.
Now, you can be joe shit off the street with several felony beefs and your vote magically still counts. Because feelings and emotions.
There’s no incentive for right or wrong. We pick our world leader like we pick American Idol. Whomever sings and dances the best.
That’s how we ended up with a POS president that’s never held an actual job and put him up against a KGB Colonel who has probably personally bare hand killed a few bodies in East Germany.
The same POS president who messed up NASA. We use space based technology everyday. We should have energy weapons by now. At one point in time, the 2001 movie wasn’t such a crazy concept. Even amongst Engineering scholars.
Which is another thing, we don’t teach anymore. There are kids who are functionally illiterate who only know “hoops, beats, and bitches, yo”. No effort. We could wipe the world off the map 10 times over but our average 18 year old doesn’t know basic math.
But we do indoctrinate. We indoctrinate like hell. We teach about stupid shit that kids don’t really need to worry about. We teach the “evil greedy white guys” myth and how everyone is a ready made victim.
Seriously it’s like that book Harrison Bergeron by Vonnegut. It’s by design we, as a society, try to keep people stupid, pussed up, and within the almighty Narrative.
Whereas their was a time in the world if you hadn’t mastered fire, steel, and war then you simply died out and were forgotten.
“We was Kings”, of what? A shit hill?
Maybe. Then guys with guns and balls took your shit over, screwed your women, and created a heartier nation.
That’s life.
On topic, short of a My Lai or Malmedy, this situation should never have been an issue. Enemies combatants have no rights. Trust is conditional. And putting the boot up someones ass for molesting a child IS good for these people to see. If your “culture” makes allowance for pederasty then it is bullshit and is to be stomped out.
Kind of a rant, didn’t mean to do as such, but that’s what I mean or wanted mean anyway.
Not joking about the King Alfred thing.
I do not have a Ph.D. In history.
It was not even my undergrad major.
But it was an interesting time I have read about.
The rest of England was getting taken to school by the Vikings.
All his older brothers died in battle.
He became King.
He had to o beyond the norm in taxing and drafting his subjects to keep the defense up.
He hit the church up for funds repeatedly.
They did not like this.
He also believed a key issue to unite England and defend it was everyone learning to read and get an education.
The church did not like this either.
He caught on he could deal with the Vikings.
Hey, you " convert" to Christianity, go raid elsewhere,
And you will never have an issue with me again.
The church also did not like this.
The pope supposedly sent him a dictate stating all he should be doing was pushing out Vikings, make everyone Christian, and he’ll no he was getting no more money from the church. Cease and desist with the other stuff. He never got it.
Supposedly he was so fed up with them,
That would have been the last straw,
He was on the verge just saying to hell with it, Vikings or whoever can settle like anyone else and people do not have to convert to the church they can do whatever.
Would less time have been wasted messing with Scotland and Ireland and those efforts gone to more constructive, united pursuits?
Would more constructive ties with France/Normany been possible.
How much sooner would the new world have been settled?
What outcome would a more united Europe, whose crusades were flat out looting and killing and piracy vs. papal adventures have done?
Trials, democracy, marriage, etc. we’re all there in basic form.
Would there have been less antagonistic German and Russian issues in the past century?
I don’t think Spain or Portugal would have even been the footnote in history they ended up being.
I think there would be a pole to pole western republic with less countries.
This would be a first world plus nation on the way to even bigger and better things instead of the first world racing to be third.
I could be 100% wrong.
But the Christian west has wussed out and becoming socialist, self destructive societies.
The previous Viking lands were put in the corner to color and are in the same boat.
But it makes me wonder,
What would a less tamed,
More unified UK, France, Scandanavia, etc. have accomplished?