Posted on 01/12/2005 4:55:46 AM PST by 1 spark
There you have it - Form over substance. I for one am concerned that, in the role of providing assistance, our troops are sitting ducks for any Muslim nut case who wants to cause a BIG problem. I saw pictures of our troops handing out relief supplies to "Victims" who were wear Usama shirts! Go figure.
Crazy. Ya got that right.
Someone higher up should have put their foot down on this one and told these Mooslims "You want our help? We come packing and armored or we don't come at all."
I'm sure we're all thinking about the same line from 'Aliens'.
"Hey, what are we supposed to use, man, harsh language?"
Bring em home then. They are soldiers and should be dressed and protected as one.
Why do we continue to bend over backwards for these ignorant people. We offered a hand, if they spit in it, so be it, let them die from their own arrogance.
This is not a good idea. Opens them up for a slaughter by murderous muslim trash. I've got a bad feeling about this.
What a stupid idea. These are Marines, not Peace Corps volunteers.
Well said. Get them out of there.
Drop in some hippies instead. They are always complaining about the military. Put them to work.
AMEN! Insert some of the hippy assholes who always bitch about the military but never actually do any good themselves. Let them spread goodwill rather than spewing rhetoric.
This is absolutely nuts! If this is a directive from the State Dept or some other high-level administrative agency, the least the Marine High Command should do is tell them to piss up a rope. There is no way in hell a Marine should be ordered into a Moslem hate zone without his sidearm. This kind of touchy-feely assininity is what the "great" Reagan was responsible for when 246 Sailors and Marines were murdered in their beds by a mad Moslem bomber who penetrated the perimeter of the compound in Lebanon because the guards at the gates HAD NO AMMUNITION IN THEIR WEAPONS. It was deemed "too provocative". When the hell will we decide to tell the PC-oriented people and their idiotic sensibilities to just DROP THE HELL DEAD!
Agreed.
Not a good idea.
And yes, I'm trying for "understatement of the day" with that assessment.
We were looking at an opportunity for my company to send small boats instead of money to aid some of the local fishermen who lost their boats. I was kind of in the middle of the plan. My first thought was how do I manage to get a sidearm there to protect myself in the unlikely event I was asked to deliver the boat kits.
The plan fell through and we wrote a sizeable check instead.
That's nuts.
Completely and utterly stupid. Our guys shouldn't be sent into such a situation - where the enemy is known to be present - without even the slightest ability to protect themselves.
This is BAD NEWS! A soldier should never be without his loaded weapon, also policemen and pilots fit this list. I just had a chill thinking of the terrorist bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut.
Forget the hippies, drop in liberals
I don't think this is a good idea at all and am shocked that we would agree to it.
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