Posted on 06/13/2014 10:31:19 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
“Boys are for pleasure, women are for babies,” former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb told CNN listeners as he explained that the Taliban propaganda film of Bowe Bergdahl’s release was carefully crafted to throw many cruel insults at America in order to flood the Middle East with the message that the Taliban had achieved victory over the great Satan! (1)
The fact that Bowe Bergdahl had no beard, no facial hair was meant to convey the message to world audiences that he, i.e. America, had been emasculated, rendered weak, unable to win the battle for hearts and minds! In the Afghan culture, thick beards and facial hair are signs of virility, masculinity on steroids. Webb said the entire scenario was a deftly drawn propaganda event aimed to humiliate the United States, our fighting men in Afghanistan and to tell the entire world we have been defeated!
“It’s an insult to shake with the left hand,” an affront to the Taliban who knew to send this non-verbal message, even though our vulnerable Special Forces extraction team had to operate during the daylight, without protection of backup power of our military. Our team had to keep their right hands free as they were meeting up with heavily armed Haqqani troops carrying grenade launchers and heavy duty assault rifles. Had something gone wrong, our copter “would have been a bullet magnet!” Again, the message the Taliban was sending...
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I’m hard put to find a good reason not to nuke Afghanistan.
If not for what we already did for them, but for the Heroin trade, that they are a pervasive supplier, we should make a parking lot of the place..
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