This sums up the difference between the two forces. One is commanded by people who are fastidious, woke, anxious not to offend, and politically correct, with military considerations decidedly secondary. The other is out for conquest. The reason why one force won and the other lost is clear here.
“‘It was a slap in the face’: Marines reveal US commanders forced them to wipe clean abusive messages they had left for the Taliban and ISIS-K at Kabul airport just days after blast that killed 13 US troops,” by Tommy Taylor, DailyMail.com, September 29, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A US Marine has shared his dismay at being forced to remove obscene messages insulting the Taliban and ISIS that they daubed on the walls of Kabul Airport.
Three examples of the insults were shared to social media – with one showing a serviceman in front of a tiled wall at Hamid Karzai Airport sprayed with the phrase ‘F*** ISIS + Taliban’ in black paint, as well as an image of a penis and testicles sprayed in purple.
Another photo showed 12 troops with guns in front of an outdoor concrete barrier which had been sprayed with ‘F*** ISIS, AFG 2021’.
And a third showed three troops stood outside toting a cardboard sign saying ‘F**k the Taliban.’
But an unnamed Marine stationed at Hamid Karzai said the graffiti painted on walls was removed at the orders of bosses, saying: ‘My boys had to go … pick up every last piece of … trash for who? The Taliban?’ a Marine told the Washington Post. ‘It was a slap in the face to us.’
That order was part of an edict which also saw troops ordered to pick up trash they’d strewn around the airport to frustrate the Taliban’s takeover.
Marine spokesman First Lt. Jack Coppola said that the cleanup was enforced to prevent delaying any flights leaving the airport.
But it is unclear why the graffiti was also removed….
OTTER says
No longer ‘the clash of civilizations’ but how do ‘we in the West surrender fast enough?’
somehistory says
Not allowed to express their anger and their frustration and disappointment…and their grief over the ones murdered…
And just what did it prove? What did it profit anyone?
Young David was allowed to express his anger against the giant Goliath and the Philistines. This is a part of war.
And for some reason, this reminds me of how the guys were treated in D.C. after the January 6 set-up, when they were called in to “protect” people who didn’t need protection.
The taliban, isis, al queda….terrorists who rape little children, girls and boys, who murder mothers in front of their children, who behead people and hang the heads on cranes….don’t deserve respect.
Neither do many “commanders’ and especially biden, many members in the House, Senate, and those who give the orders behind the scenes…’o’ and others. They have not earned even a smidgen of respect.
I am not a user of foul/obscene language, but I can understand how these men felt with the way they were being treated. It’s as though they were being made to apologize as they were forced to surrender to terrorists who would gladly murder every one of them.
Jim says
When the Left wants to take away anything, they try to make their victims feel unworthy of having it. So they try to make Americans feel they are unworthy to have their country. It should be given to the enemies of America, including above all the Leftists themselves. So the US soldiers were supposed to show respect for terrorists who show no respect or mercy for them. Typical leftist behavior, not at all surprising. Like the leftists with their slogans, you know you are supposed to show respect for other peoples’ culture. But they do not have to reciprocate, because they are better then you are.
Infidel says
Are these the same people who also painted George Floyd murals in Kabul?
roberta says
We read about the military giants, Alexander the Great, Cesar, Washington, all men that lead into battle. When the mules and wagons got mired in the mud they were the first off of their horses to assist. Never asking more of their men than they themselves were willing to do.
Those days have been gone for a while.
We were always told to respect the rank of our superiors. I never swallowed that pill.
gravenimage says
‘It was a slap in the face’: Top brass forced Marines to erase taunts of ISIS and the Taliban before leaving Afghanistan
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Good lord–now it is considered beyond the pale to say anything negative about *ISIS and the Taliban*? Suicidal insanity.
Phil Copson says
Was this order given by the same grovelling general (in Iraq?) who instructed American soldiers that – were they to knock a Koran to the floor during a house-search – they should carefully pick it up, kiss it, and replace it ? I believe this was reported in JW ?
Google offers this from a New York Times report on a meeting between Gen Jeffrey Hammond and local leaders in Baghdad following an incident in which a soldier was found to have used a copy of the Koran for target practice:
““I come before you here seeking your forgiveness,” General Hammond said at the meeting, in remarks carried by CNN. “In the most humble manner, I look in your eyes today and I say, please forgive me and my soldiers.”
Another American officer kissed a Koran and gave it to the tribal leaders, according to news agency reports.
(Whether the general was similarly exercised about the desecration of an artefact of considerable importance to the local Christian population – one Paulos Rahho, the kidnapped Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, who was murdered after bravely advising his colleagues not to pay ransom for him – isn’t mentioned.)
David Cooper says
Do these’top brass’ clowns know the history behind the formation of the US Marine Corps by Pres Jefferson back in 1780/90s? Jihadists Barbury pirates were legitimate targets then as they are to this day.The leopard hasnt changed its spots.
OLD GUY says
WOKE truly means that you will wake up living under the rule of your enemies. Our political leadership who open our borders to these migration invasions of our country are making the biggest mistake in American History.