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.
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!
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.
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.
This is wrong. Didn't we learn this lesson already with the USS Cole??
If they want the aid, they do not set the conditions.
I feel sorry for those Marines. They are not the Peace Corps and they aren't at Disneyland. There are bad guys there who would love an easy unarmed target.
No weapons carried by Marines, no aid.
They are already kidnapping aid workers. We need to recognize that Banda Aceh was a terrorist base. While we are there, we should eliminate as many terrorists as we can.
A few more deaths will hardly be noticed.
When I first heard this on the radio, I could not believe it! First thought was-the terrorists are hearing this too! You don't want our Marines to be armed, FORGET IT! I can see those crazy terrorists headed for this area now. I am so sick of always having to cowtow to other countries demands. You dont' like it, get your aid elsewhere.
This is absolute PC BULLSH*T!!!That part of the world is an Al Quaeda hotbed!!!!I want our guys"locked and cocked"!!!!!!!!!!
Click the link on the right for pics of the Relief effort.
Get the Marines OUT and send Code Pink.
This is pure BS. The last time we tried this social experiment (United States Marine Corps Barracks, Beirut, October 23, 1983) it cost 242 of my Brothers their lives. Requiring a Marine to part from his weapon is the same as asking him to saw off his own arm. Leadership on the ground (Officer and Enlisted) should be raising pure HELL about this to whomever it takes to get this reversed! I am totally disgusted at the thought of placing these Marines in harms way without the tools necessary to defend themselves. Well if the crap hits the fan Im sure some latte sucking Washington bureaucrat will expect the Marines to simply throw cans of condensed milk at the enemy.
No Weapons. No Marines. No Aid. No Compromise!
This is not a good idea! They couldn't even take a side-arm? Snakes you know.....