Afghanistan Beyond PeeING
Posted on 29. Jan, 2012 by Khalid Iqbal in Afghanistan war
Is this a moraly sound act?
By Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal
Forty second long video showing American Marines joyfully urinating on dead Afghan fighters in southern Afghanistan is the latest episode of disregard of basic Human values by Americans. Earlier there have been numerous incidents in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere where Human rights were grossly violated. Contrary to American claims to be a guardian and upholder of Human dignity, most of its utterances on this subject have been more of politically motivated rhetoric. If Americans are serious in the cause of Human rights and Human dignity, they would have, long ago, plugged this horrible gap in their military training curricula.
Memories of insults to which the American captors subjected their prisoners in Bagram, Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, etc, have not yet faded from the collective memory of Mankind. Latest incident has crossed all previous bench marks of indecency.
There is an internationally recognized military custom that belligerents exchange dead bodies and while doing so they salute the dead adversaries as a mark of respect. Hopefully, America has regular professional standing armed forces in Afghanistan and it is not sending raw mercenaries for battle field tasking without any formal military training. It was indeed a Command Failure’; it warrants intervention by the UNHRC and ICRC.
Incident has caused a stir and deep fretfulness amongst all individuals and entities which have slightest respect for the Human dignity. Ordering of immediate investigation by the field commander is a welcome step, however of vital importance is prevention of recurrences. This is neither the first time nor it may be the last time that American soldiers consider themselves above any moral or legal accountability. The fact that the event was a group activity is quite worrisome.
As a matter of routine, American troops indulge in defiling the dead bodies of Afghan freedom fighters. This indicates that inquiry of earlier such incidents have failed to deter the men in the field. Hence, one tends to reach an unfortunate conclusion that earlier investigations had been an eye wash and did not translate into any serious disciplinary action against the defaulters.
This culture is well patronised; high offices of the American government are involved in sanctioning inhuman interrogation aids like water boarding, freeing dogs upon shackled prisoners and forcing inmates to stay naked for extended periods. This attitude has indeed travelled from top to bottom. Many of such victimized prisoners were later set free as they were not found guilty; there is no procedure or practice of compensation or apology.
It is interesting to observe that our pseudo flag bearers of human rights who do not let pass a day without demonising national institutions and agencies on trivial issues have treated this incident of gross violation of Human dignity as a non-event. Neither anchor persons have screamed on this matter nor were there any biting editorials. This brings forth the linkages such people have.
Frustration arising out of American failures in Afghanistan is phenomenal; denial is unable to mitigate the fallouts. Istanbul and Bon II conferences of the last year were a collapse at strategic level. It is expected that NATO could, too, ditch America during the forthcoming summit in May. Foreign soldier are dying in numbers in Afghanistan. President Sarkozy is on the edge, rest are not far behind. A common American soldier has the inkling that he has been abandoned by its country. This psych makes the urination on corpses a joyful fun.
Under these gloomy circumstances, America is attempting to kick-start the negotiations with the Taliban. After Doha disaster, resulting into diplomatic rupture between Qatar and Afghanistan; there is rising scepticism on the entire process. Though the effort to deliver a breakthrough in the backdrop of the US presidential re-election campaign cannot be wished away, the two main players, Pakistan and Iran are sitting on the fence, one pushed against the wall and other made a persona non grata.
Due to gross error of judgment, spree of sanctions on Iran has begun to backfire. Due to the latest sanctions, Iran’s major trading partners find it increasingly difficult to pay for their oil imports. This includes EU, China, Russia, India, Japan and others. The EU promptly agreed to tow American line, Japan, though agreed, yet suggested to get China and India on board. “Without cooperation within the world community, there’s no way to carry out effective sanctions,” Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba opined. Indian Foreign Secretary said, “We have accepted sanctions which are made by the United Nations. Other sanctions do not apply to individual countries. We continue to buy oil from Iran.”
Iran and Pakistan know that there is no viable solution to Afghan quagmire without their participation; Americans also know it too well. In all probability, tempo of ongoing anti-Iran campaign is not likely to slow down before the American elections. Americans have lost the chance of availing Iran’s prudence that came to American rescue in Iraq; at least for the time being. Thanks to American unilateralism, despite these odds, the necessity of a hurried negotiated settlement with the Taliban has become their obsession. America is eager to demonstrate, or make the world believe of a breakthrough with the Taliban before the NATO and G8 summits scheduled for coming May.
This urgency has attracted criticism from several Northern Alliance members, which was duly articulated during a recent meeting with US delegates in Germany. Ahmed Rashid Dostum said that the talks could give the Taliban time to regroup and strengthen and that talks could have benefitted if they included anti-Taliban Afghans as well. Northern Alliance cannot be wished away in the final settlement of Afghanistan. Likewise sitting Afghan government cannot be excluded from the process. President Karzai’s reaction on such likelihood is not out of place. India understands that its vast presence in Afghanistan would be minimised if an agreement was reached between the occupation forces and the resistance. Indian Ambassador in Washington Nirupama Rao told a gathering that ‘the US should not let the dark forces emerge victorious’.
Going by traditional stance, Pakistan has once again indicated its willingness to be a part of Afghan negotiation process. Pakistan's offer to engage the Taliban in dialogue has also received a positive nod from the Afghan High Peace Council. This change in outlook between the two nations comes at a time when they are being increasingly sidelined by the US to engage directly with the Taliban. In this backdrop Pakistan needs to rise from the slumber and take a proactive approach. Above all, America needs to face the defeat with grace and take a fresh look at Afghanistan beyond p***ing.
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Jimmy Jamshaid
29. Jan, 2012
Millions around the World are outraged/shocked by this most barbaric behavior of pissing on bodies of fallen enemy soldiers. Never in History has any soldier with an iota of honor has done this. As a matter of fact, real soldiers have saluted……..brave enemy soldiers who have fallen. And instead of saluting, these brave & great Americans PISS on bodies of super-brave enemy soldiers…."Greatest warriors on earth" as per Eric Margolis. Such insult & degradation is unknown in Military History. Instead of saluting these dead warriors whom Americans have not been able to defeat even after 10 years of WAR with all total advantage…………..matter of great shame & demonstrates mentality & class of PISSING soldiers. And there are plenty also who support such outrageous behavior.
It is also a Historical fact that dying enemy soldiers used to salute Napoleon Bonaparte………for his bravery & complete disregard for personal safety during battle……………
Rehmat
29. Jan, 2012
Judeo-Christian culture is based on Roman paganism and Jewish vengeance – which teaches that only the White race among them has the human rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche (d. 1900) was an athiest German philosopher and author. He was a White supremacist. In his 1888 book The Anitchrist, Nietzsche while scathing polemic against his Christian faith, did praised Islam in certain ways.
“One needs but read any of the Christian agitators, for example, St. Augustine, in order to realize, in order to smell, what filthy fellows came to the top …… Christianity destroyed for us the whole harvest of ancient civilization, and later it also destroyed for us the whole harvest of Mohammedan civilization. The wonderful culture of the Moors in Spain, which was fundamentally nearer to us and appealed more to our senses and tastes than that of Rome and Greece, was trampled down…. Let us put aside our prejudices! The crusades were a higher form of piracy, nothing more! The German nobility, which is fundamentally a Viking nobility, was in its element there: the church knew only too well how the German nobility was to be won . . . The German noble, always the “Swiss guard” of the church, always in the service of every bad instinct of the church–but well paid…..“
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/nietzsche-on-christianity-jews-muslims-and-supremacy/
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Afriq
30. Jan, 2012
the revolting brit royal will award these disgusting vilary goons
Stunning denial by U.S. Marine at Haditha massacre court martial as judge rules he will serve ZERO jail time
January 25, 2012 by legitgov
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'I never fired at any women or children': Stunning denial by U.S. Marine at Haditha massacre court martial as judge rules he will serve ZERO jail time –U.S. team killed unarmed women, children and man in wheelchair in house –Sgt Frank Wuterich faced detainment of no more than three months after pleading guilty to lesser charges –Accused of telling team to 'shoot first, ask questions later' in Haditha in 2005 24 Jan 2012 A military judge recommended confinement for a Marine sergeant who pleaded guilty to negligent dereliction of duty in the Haditha assaults that led to the deaths of 24 unarmed Iraqis in 2005. The judge's decision Tuesday at Camp Pendleton, Calif., now goes to the commander of the Marine Corps Forces Central Command for approval. The ruling came after a surprise statement by Staff Sgt Frank Wuterich that he never fired his weapon at any women or children. As part of a deal that stopped his manslaughter trial Monday, Wuterich faces no more than three months in confinement for the lesser charge.
and if you have the stomach read what the US house of horrors candidates have to say about it!
Besides when has the west risen above barbarity?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/dec/27/eu.turkey
In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, published in 2001, Mike Davis tells the story of famines that killed between 12 and 29 million Indians. These people were, he demonstrates, murdered by British state policy. When an El Niño drought destituted the farmers of the Deccan plateau in 1876 there was a net surplus of rice and wheat in India. But the viceroy, Lord Lytton, insisted that nothing should prevent its export to England. In 1877 and 1878, at the height of the famine, grain merchants exported a record 6.4m hundredweight of wheat
The only relief permitted in most districts was hard labour, from which anyone in an advanced state of starvation was turned away. In the labour camps, the workers were given less food than inmates of Buchenwald. In 1877, monthly mortality in the camps equated to an annual death rate of 94%.
Three recent books – Britain's Gulag by Caroline Elkins, Histories of the Hanged by David Anderson, and Web of Deceit by Mark Curtis – show how white settlers and British troops suppressed the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya in the 1950s. Thrown off their best land and deprived of political rights, the Kikuyu started to organise – some of them violently – against colonial rule. The British responded by driving up to 320,000 of them into concentration camps. Most of the remainder – more than a million – were held in "enclosed villages". Prisoners were questioned with the help of "slicing off ears, boring holes in eardrums, flogging until death, pouring paraffin over suspects who were then set alight, and burning eardrums with lit cigarettes". British soldiers used a "metal castrating instrument" to cut off testicles and fingers. "By the time I cut his balls off," one settler boasted, "he had no ears, and his eyeball, the right one, I think, was hanging out of its socket." The soldiers were told they could shoot anyone they liked "provided they were black". Elkins's evidence suggests that more than 100,000 Kikuyu were either killed or died of disease and starvation in the camps.
TO THIS DAY THE BRITS HAVE SHOWN THEIR BARBARITY
LIBYA 2011 – a town of 30,000 black Libyans does not exist
SIRTE – Totally destroed
least thy forgets
Baha Musa
Abeer Al Janabi
these are the most insane ruthless scumbag goons brit + US
Khalif
31. Jan, 2012
these are boys, barefooted and with a wheel barrow. All it shows is that viagra vilary's goons armed to the teeth coward s
what have these goons achieved?
DISGUST, HATRED and being chased from everywhere.
10 years on the rats viagra vilary is asking her whores to arrange so that the goons can leave the slaughter house
what a super power! her goons showing the cowardice and US going down
how fitting!
Afriq
31. Jan, 2012
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30384.htm
Any Talk of Values is a Joke
By George Galloway
January 30, 2012 "Information Clearing House" — HILLARY Clinton said – that the slaying of apparently unarmed, barefoot, skinny Afghan youths by armed US Marines who could hardly wait to urinate on the deceased was "inconsistent with American values".
Inconsistent? What, with the values of Wounded Knee? With the values of distributing smallpox-infected blankets to the native Americans to ethnically cleanse them from their lands so the settlers could steal it?
Inconsistent with the wholesale slaughter of the USA's aboriginal people, the enslavement of millions of others until the 1860s on account of their faces being the colour black?
Inconsistent with the fact that Barack Obama's house was built by black slaves and his own father couldn't have urinated in the same public lavatory as a white man until the 60s?
Inconsistent with the American values of the Vietnam War? You know… the smell of Napalm in the morning? The Agent Orange chemical weapons, the massacre of millions of Vietnamese peasants?
Truth is, what your Marines did is absolutely consistent with the values you have projected ever since the last honourable shot you fired back in 1945.