Joint Chiefs Army General Blames "Insensitive" Soldiers For Friendly Fire On Own U.S. Troops

JoeClarke.Net ^ | 10/02/2012 | JoeClarke.Net

[joeclarke]

Yes, the same Army General who has bent over frontwards to welcome gays into the military, and the same Army General who called Florida Pastor Terry Jones begging him not to air the video about Mohammad, has again put his 4 Star General hat in his hand, reciting the Obama apologist - to everything- view - that our Unites States troops abroad may need more sensitivity training. With these sort of people at the supreme head of our armed forces, have we lost our ability to identify enemies, much less ever again beat them?

4 Star Army General Chairman of The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff  Blaming our troops 'Friendly' fire attacks have killed dozens of our heroes. The Pentagon's response? Ordering sensitivity training about Islam

• By PAUL SPERRY
• Last Updated: 9:49 AM, September 16, 2012
• Posted: 10:28 PM, September 15, 2012

Afghan security forces, our supposed allies, are slaughtering American troops. Thirty-three soldiers have been killed by “green on blue” attacks this year alone. The situation is so bad that the training of Afghan forces has been temporarily suspended.

How has the Pentagon responded?

By blaming our troops.

Top officials believe culturally offensive behavior is the motivation behind the killings, so it’s stepped up Islamic sensitivity training for our troops.

If you don’t want to be shot in the back by your Afghan training partners, the Pentagon advises, don’t offend their religious sensibilities. Don’t kick your feet up on a table, for instance, and never ask to see a picture of their wives and kids. “There’s a percentage [of attacks] which are cultural affronts,” Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said...

[joeclarke]

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No matter how sensitive American soldiers are, Afghans continue to protest the United States.

Dempsey echoes the concerns of Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, the Afghan National Army’s chief of staff, who earlier this month argued both sides need to do more to “teach” foreign troops Islamic traditions and values to reduce the chance of violent reactions to cultural slights.

AFGHAN INSIDE ATTACK KILLS US TROOPS: OFFICIALS

“It is our duty to teach this to them. Our indifference about these issues causes the incident,” he said.

In the past three years, uniformed Afghans have murdered at least 97 US and NATO troops.

The Taliban has taken credit for many of the attacks, but the Pentagon has been reluctant to admit widespread infiltration of the Afghan security forces it’s training.

Standing up a national army and police force that can protect the US-sponsored government in Kabul is the linchpin of President Obama’s announced 2014 withdrawal strategy.

Some 120,000 American and other foreign troops mix closely with 350,000 Afghan security forces. Afghan trainees and guards are co-located on US bases, where they share bathrooms, gyms and mess halls.

To avoid offending them, US commanders are putting troops through intense Muslim sensitivity training. Among other things, they’ve been ordered to:

* Wear surgical gloves whenever handling a copy of the Koran.

* Never walk in front of a praying Muslim.

* Never show the bottom of boots while sitting or lying across from a Muslim, which in Islam is considered an insult.

* Never share photos of wives or daughters.

* Never smoke or eat in front of Muslims during the monthlong Ramadan fasting.

* Avoid winking, cursing or nose-blowing in the presence of Muslims — all viewed as insults in Islam.

* Avoid exiting the shower without a towel.

* Avoid offering and accepting things with the left hand, which in Islam is reserved for bodily hygiene and considered unclean.

Troops who violate the sensitivity rules face severe punishment.

Military officials who have done tours in Afghanistan are outraged that brass would even suggest US troops are partly to blame for their own murders.

“I would like to see a public affairs officer explain to the press where showing the bottom of your shoe to a Muslim or shaking with your left hand was legitimate grounds for murder,” growled one US Army official.

They say their Muslim partners would still resent them even if they followed their Islamic protocols to the letter.

“The cultural affronts excuse is a bunch of garbage,” a senior US Army intelligence official told me. “The Afghans that know we’re doing all this PC cultural sensitivity crap are laughing their asses off at our stupidity.”

Explained the intelligence official: “They’re killing us because we’re ‘infidels’ occupying Islamic lands. It’s what the Koran and every imam over there is telling them, and no amount of cultural sensitivity is going to stop that or change the fact that we’re ‘infidels.’ ”

Indeed, a Taliban video released last month revealed uniformed Afghans are itching for a chance to “kill infidels.”

“I opened fire on three Americans who were sitting together,” a rogue Afghan soldier, identified as Ghazi Mahmood, says while smiling for the camera. “The reason I killed them is because they have occupied our country. They are enemies of our religion.”

Internally, the military has acknowledged the larger religious problem. A May 2011 study commissioned by the US Army says “fratricidal” assaults by uniformed Afghans stem in part from Afghan religious attitudes that their American counterparts are “infidel bullies.” (The same report says US troops regarded their Afghan training partners as “treacherous and murderous radicals” secretly colluding with the Taliban.)

Further pointing up the absurdity of putting troops through Islamic finishing school: The intelligence official notes that if there are any truly obnoxious cultural offenses, they are committed by Afghan trainees quartered inside our bases.

“They like to stand on our toilets and poop all over them,” he said.

Why? They refuse to touch the toilet seats used by the “dirty infidels” they’re training and living with.

Paul Sperry is a Hoover Institution media fellow and author of “Infiltration.”

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[blueunicorn6]

I remember that scene in A BRIDGE TOO FAR where the British tanks open fire on the American Soldiers because an American called a biscuit a cookie.

[joe fonebone]

Politically motivated upper command officers and glory hunting non coms are the bane of the military..

always has been, always will be..

they had it right in vietnam..

frag the bastards..

[353FMG]

How was it possible that our insensitive troops in WWII defeated the Germans and Japanese?

[joe fonebone]

Because they killed everything and destroyed anything that was in their way....

When was the last time an american commander could do that without being brought up on criminal charges?

[binreadin]

Our traitorous Commander in Chief just wants our kids to be sitting ducks over there. This is absolute bu!!$hit, but where are the senior brass with the courage to go against this crap? At that level all they care about are their own positions. They make me sick, all of them.

[The Sons of Liberty]

This butt kissing SOB sorry excuse for a general should be REMOVED immediately!

[The Sons of Liberty]

This butt kissing SOB sorry excuse for a general should be REMOVED immediately!

[Uri’el-2012]

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey

I guarantee that when he is interred at Arlington,
his grave will be pissed on by our brave warriors.

[Noob1999]

....................If you don’t want to be shot in the back by your Afghan training partners, the Pentagon advises, don’t offend their religious sensibilities..............

This is total, complete, disgusting horseshit!

It’s time to leave and let these heathens go back to living in the seventh century. Agent orange all their poppy crops, bomb any and all suspected taliban caves, and pull out with pride.

Bush started this war, and initially the shock and awe was going somewhere, then we backed off to concentrate on Iraq, and now we’re coddling these goat humpers with all this PC bullshit. Time to pull out with pride!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

We don’t allow George Patton’s in the Army any more.

Perhaps Lt. Col. Allen West was one of the last major senior ranked soldiers to us a handgun to save his troops ( a la Patton) and the recently KIA colonel at Camp Bastian who fought his Taliban attackers to the death, but meanwhile warning his troops who proceeded to counterattack and kill the bastards.

Obama and his military advisors have destroyed the US Army in Afghanistan. Next target is the General in charge of the Africa command who wants to take the war to Al Qaeda in the Magreb/Mali/Libya.

[Godwin1]

NEVER HAS OUR MILITARY BEEN SO POORLY LED. A GAGGLE OF CAREERIST ASS-LICKERS WHO COURT MARTIAL THEIR OWN TROOPS FOR KILLING THE ENEMY. I SERVED PROUDLY: BUT I will do anything in my power to keep any relative or acquaintance of mine from joining today’s military. A disgrace!

[NonValueAdded]

I say it's the Dumpster for Dempsey

(rhetorically, of course - no violence expressed or implied).

[MasterGunner01]

GEN Dempsey needs to be relieved for cause, FIRED and retired. What a POS masquerading as a leader.

[windcliff]

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[Delta 21]

Touchy feely enough for you "General"?

[Delta 21]

Why would it be an insult to accept something offered with my left hand? I am an American. Its not like I wipe my ass with my bare fingers!

[onedoug]

I think we should send Dempsey...and Obama to negotiate with them. They could all have one big Loya Jerga togetner.

Criminal Bastards!