DAY 119 / MAR 28

DAY 119 / Mar 28

 

Apparently not a day goes by that I can't talk about this whole Afghan thing that I find so interesting.   The bad news is that this has become a no-win situation for the United States and the Western world in general.  If Afghan caves in and releases this Ex-Muslim, the Arab world views the new Afghanistan as nothing but a puppet government for the United States (and rightly so – we pulled the strings on their president and got what we wanted).   If they don't and eventually execute the Ex-Muslim, the whole point of the United States being in Afghanistan (and Iraq for that matter) go down the drain because we failed in bringing about a free nation.   We just overthrew one tyrannical religious zealot country and installed another.  I think this just goes to show – you can lead a horse to water (hell, you can even throw the damned thing IN the water), but you can't make it drink.   Maybe some of the religious zealot countries need to die of dehydration instead of us giving them the IV.

 

Oh and heres the Ex-Muslim story update.  They released him and he disappeared.   Hmm, I wonder what happened to him?

 

Now, I'm sure that everyone thinks I'm anti-Muslim, I'm not… I'm anti-religious fanatical.  But, heres another Muslim story I ran across recently – and no, I don't just go looking for them.  It just seems like that.  I suppose I could talk about the fundamentalist Christians who let their kids die by not taking them to doctors because they are waiting for God to heal their kids.   Fanatics in every group.  Or is it all one group, and they just don't see it?

 

But, anyway, here's my next "Crazy Fanatic" story.

 

In India recently, a Muslim man said the magic "divorce (taliq)" word three times in his sleep and now, the religious leaders are saying that him and his wife must separate!   Ok, see?  Another crazy religious thing.  The guy was ASLEEP.  Damn.  And to make it worse, its not like they can just go and get remarried – oh, no, that would be too easy – they have to wait 100 days AND the wife has to marry someone else first and stay with him for a night and then that new husband has to divorce her also.   THEN she can remarry her actual husband of 11 years with whom she has 3 kids.  Yeah, so, another crazy ass religious story.   Sorry.  They just keep coming up.

 

So, for the local news:

 

It had been warming up – it was in the 80s-90s earlier this week.  Today it rained.   All that nice baby powder sand turned back to mud.  Good thing I didn't clean it all off my boots from the last time yet.  All quiet here, no mortars or anything for 50 days and no blackouts for 32.

 

I read that the Department of Defense has now said that the Shiite militias are a greater threat to us than the insurgents.   Hmmm, in that case, I think it may be time to pack it up and head home.  If the insurgency isn't the problem anymore, but the local Iraqi militias area – doesn't that mean that the whole civil war we are ignoring is the real problem?   And if it is, should we really be involved in it?  This country will never be stable enough to rebuild a formidable army again for many decades – it will no longer be a military threat to the US.   If the people want something other than what we are offering, can we really make them take it and make it work?  Remember the whole thing about the horse?   It applies here also.