Saturday, March 26, 2011

Australian army launches investigation into soldiers' anti-Afghan taunts

We read:
"An investigation has been launched into Facebook posts by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. Soldiers are accused of describing Afghans as "ragheads", "dune coons", "sand niggaz" and "smelly locals" on Facebook.

In videos, photos and comments posted on the social networking site, troops also allegedly mock the people they have been sent to help.

A video has been posted showing the bombing of a bridge in Afghanistan, which was aired on Seven News last night. When an Afghan bystander is frightened by the bomb, someone can be heard to say "scared the f--- out of that muftee" and "f-----' boom".

Several soldiers list their employer as "F------ Ranga", some under their ADF listing. [A reference to Australia's red-headed Leftist Prime Minister. "Ranga" is common slang for a redhead. It is short for Orang Utan]

One Facebooker wrote that he he had just done an interview with the army and was waiting for a place in cavalry. A soldier replied: "I'm in Afghan ... now. running over c---- yeeha." He later comments: "dune coons, sand niggaz. f--- em all".

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My contacts tell me that Afghans are generally unloved by troops serving there. The fact that any one of them could turn on you at any time with firearms or grenades does not promote respect and the very common use of boys for sex is a downer too.

The latter would be fiercely condemned as pedophilia in any one else -- but for Muslims it is OK, of course. Don't blame the troops if they don't buy that "OK", however.

Under those circumstances some contemptuous language about Afghans is to be expected. And soldiers do tend to express themselves in an unsophisticated way.

Even Afghan army troops supposedly working with allied troops have been known to launch treacherous attacks on allied troops. The reports of that have even made it into the media. What would your attitude to Afghans be in those circumstances?

I personally think that the Afghans are uncivilizable, though they were at least not dangerous when they were a British Protectorate. It was of course the Left which created the Afghan problem. Soviet Russia invaded Afghanistan and it was the Muslim fanatics who drove them out again -- thus giving the fanatics great cred.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The region is a complete waste of time and space. Given what the average soldier is forced to accept in this arsehole place I don't blame them in the slightest. I do blame the idiots that got so cocky as to put it into the social media. They have completely let the side down by drawing attention to themselves.

If I was a soldier and I knew that a local Afghan citizen was indulging in peadophilic behaviour it would be hard for me not to put a bullet between his eyes let alone refrain from calling him dispariging names.

Our soldiers conduct themselves remarkably well given the situation and it shits me that people in Australia are taking pot shots at them in the name of politcal correctness without any knowledge of the local conditions.

As to comments about the PM and Rudd they reflect the general community feeling and as such deserve complete immunity. Gillard is not the commander in chief, the GG is. On that basis there is no disloyalty merely an echo of community sentiment.

If you are going to try these soldiers by media then you should also go back to previous wars such as Vietnam, korea, WW2 and WW1 and ask those soldiers for their opinion as I am sure it would reflect the current one. An opinion borne more out of frustration rather than animosity.

If you want to blame anyone then blame the politicians who tied their hands. If you are going to war then go to war completely in order to win. There is no second option.

G.S. Patton III said...

Our warriors weren't sent there to help them. They were sent there to kill them. And if they can't do that without interference from the elected socialist cowards back home, (regardless of the country) and the communists in the media, then BRING THEM HOME NOW, and leave Afghanistan in the 4th century where they want to be!

Anonymous said...

War is for the benefit of war-profiteers, not for the benefit of anyone else, and certainly not the soldiers who are sent to fight (aka cannon-fodder).

Spurwing Plover said...

Just wash their mouths out with soap and be done with it