Your main page tells me absolutely nothing about why you think we should allow a "Muslim dominated" police force to guard our Marines and remove all weapons and armor from our Marines going ashore.
It's not supposed to.
The idiot(s) who made this decision should never have been in a position to make it.
And you are?.......What are your qualifications to determine exactly what the personnel on the ground need? None, I presume.
(1) I am an American Citizen.
(2) I possess enough intelligence to know that when a group says they want to kill you at all costs,and the "Police" who are guarding you very likely have members of this group in their ranks, to come unarmed is idiocy.
And I would be willing to bet none of the Military on-site were the ones to agree to this.
Sarajevo is a newbie FReeper around here. The dismissive attitude is very unbecoming of a former military member. Hopefully he will learn to comport himself with dignity and be more respectful of others.
~ Blue Jays ~
"I was a member of an SF company that marched into the mountains of southern Turkey/north Iraq in 1991 in response to the Kurdish Refugee Crisis, post Gulf War 1. We carried 60 rounds per man. The camp itself had an estimated population of 125,000 UNARMED, HUNGRY, refugees. Needless to say, we determined that we would NOT use deadly force against an unarmed refugee populace and turned our weapons in to the arms room! Instead, we armed ourselves with 5ft long sticks for crowd control."
"And you are?.......What are your qualifications to determine exactly what the personnel on the ground need? None, I presume."
Why would we want to listen to someone whose "vast experience" (cough cough) doesn't tell them that there's a big difference between a camp full of unarmed civillians and being in open country where islamic terrorists are known to operate? Your air of dismissive superiority makes you look even sillier.