Posted on 03/03/2010 3:52:25 PM PST by Nachum
As President Obama prepares to travel to Indonesia, his administration is seeking to reverse a 12-year-old ban on training an elite unit of the Indonesian military whose members have been convicted of beatings, kidnappings and other abuses.
The administration is floating a plan to test a training program for younger members of the Indonesian Komando Pasukan Khusus, or Kopassus. Four members of the force, including its commanding general, Maj. Gen. Lodewijk Paulus, are in Washington to discuss the proposal, several sources said.
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The list, ping
Indonesia, Obama’s Indonesia, that would be the military junta that runs Indonesia right?
Seems like training this level of scum is beneath the US Military. What do we want to do make them more efficient at beating and killing their people.
hmmm, maybe that’s why there is a ban, ya think.
The boy king is an evil traitor and would-be Islamic dicator. And now he wants to use our military to train whose who would kill them.
Kopassus is on the front lines of the war against terrorism in Indonesia. The US should be supporting them 100% but instead someone from Washington thinks they know best. The Leahy Law is a relic of the pre-9/11 world and should be trashed ASAP.
He wants this, but our troops must Mirandize terrorists captured red-handed in the field?
WTF?
Makes you wonder who’s side he is on.
Thank you for injecting some actual common sense into this thread.
Dont need to “wonder” if ya know what I mean....
I never thought I would see Freepers supporting legislation that came from Patrick Leahy. Go figure.
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