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		Problem: night raids are the most effective tactic used by the US in Afghanistan, but it outrages Afghans because soldiers sometimes see women without their veils on. Solution: train Afghan women as commandos (news.yahoo.com)		159
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Humean_Nature		2012-04-12 11:22:05 AM

Afghan outrage over females barging into their homes and "acting like men" in 3.....2......1......

HelloMyNameIs		2012-04-12 11:47:47 AM

HEY! Take your shoes off at the door!

Englebert Slaptyback		2012-04-12 12:46:07 PM

Solution: train Afghan women as commandos

Train them not to wear underwear?

Nem Wan		2012-04-12 12:46:10 PM

How else are we supposed to find out what women really look like?

Jake Havechek		2012-04-12 12:47:22 PM

Meh, women are for making babies and meals over there, most of the men are into the ghey sex.

Cheese Whiz Kid		2012-04-12 12:47:22 PM

How does Afghan women not wearing underwear help this situation?

RanDomino		2012-04-12 12:47:40 PM

yeah, that's what's making them mad... not that foreign soldiers are extrajudicially killing people and destroying property. They're totally cool with that.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat		2012-04-12 12:47:54 PM

Cheese Whiz Kid: How does Afghan women not wearing underwear help this situation?

How does it not?

Karma Curmudgeon		2012-04-12 12:48:24 PM

Englebert Slaptyback: Solution: train Afghan women as commandos

Train them not to wear underwear?

Hey baby, wutchu got under that burka?

Inquisitive Inquisitor		2012-04-12 12:48:52 PM

Solution: ignore Afghanistan's idiotic moral code, continue raids.

gretzkyscores		2012-04-12 12:49:04 PM

Solution: GTFO of Afghanistan. It's a sinkhole of lost lives and will never be "won".

/flame on

Englebert Slaptyback		2012-04-12 12:49:24 PM

PS "thier"?

EbolaNYC		2012-04-12 12:49:33 PM

Dear Afghanistan,

You have a lot more serious problems than some man who isn't interested, seeing your women without a veil.

Signed,

People who live much better lives because we don't live in a medieval culture

Maud Dib		2012-04-12 12:50:50 PM

Englebert Slaptyback: PS "thier"?

Misspelling in headline=automatic greenlight.

SoCalSurfer		2012-04-12 12:51:24 PM

Dear Afghanistan,

Have fun growing opium and f**king your sheep.

Sincerely,
America

Peace out

-tweeted from iPad 3

skullkrusher		2012-04-12 12:51:36 PM

""I have already fought the Taliban. My comrades were martyred in fights with the Taliban and we have killed them too, but during the night raids I haven't fought insurgents yet.""

do the good guys have to say shiat like "martyred" too?

swahnhennessy		2012-04-12 12:51:48 PM

Inquisitive Inquisitor: Solution: ignore Afghanistan's idiotic moral code, continue raids.

Remind me to bust into your house some night and ogle your wife naked.

The First Four Katy Perry Albums		2012-04-12 12:53:27 PM

Solution: GTFO out of that shiathole, let those boy-farking goat headers run around chopping each other's heads off if they want to

que.guero		2012-04-12 12:53:39 PM

Cagey B		2012-04-12 12:55:33 PM

skullkrusher: do the good guys have to say shiat like "martyred" too?

Pro-tip: Most armed conflicts that happen in reality and not Middle-Earth do not have "good guys" and "bad guys".

s2s2s2		2012-04-12 12:55:46 PM

We should have been doing this from the start. Arm/train the women over there, and we will start to see some reforms worthy of note.

And if the GOP gains any traction in the upcoming elections, do it here, too.

rjakobi		2012-04-12 12:55:58 PM

Night time raids.

Drone attacks.

Pick one.

Nurglitch		2012-04-12 12:56:04 PM

I suspect the same people wondering what the problem is are the same people advocating that people be allowed to shoot whoever tries to kick down their door in 'Merka.

Still, I'm all for the arming, training, and support of Afghan women. We should have colonized them when we had the chance.

PC LOAD LETTER		2012-04-12 12:56:14 PM

SoCalSurfer: Dear Afghanistan,

Have fun growing opium and f**king your sheep.

Sincerely,
America

Peace out

-tweeted from iPad 3

This is BULLshiat. It's called "The New iPad", you idiot.

tgregory		2012-04-12 12:57:15 PM

"...but it outrages Afghans because soldiers sometimes see women without thier veils on..."

I think I understand why God flooded the earth now.

/I don't believe in mythology, but I get where that character was coming from

skullkrusher		2012-04-12 12:57:20 PM

Cagey B: skullkrusher: do the good guys have to say shiat like "martyred" too?

Pro-tip: Most armed conflicts that happen in reality and not Middle-Earth do not have "good guys" and "bad guys".

Pro-tip: those who are fighting against the same people the US are fighting against become the "good guys"

derpdeederp		2012-04-12 12:57:31 PM

swahnhennessy

Inquisitive Inquisitor: Solution: ignore Afghanistan's idiotic moral code, continue raids.

Remind me to bust into your house some night and ogle your wife naked.

Appearantly you havent heard of the war on drugs. They will no knock your place, naked ladies or not.

Ambitwistor		2012-04-12 12:58:01 PM

Yeah, but wait until the Taliban brings in the Iranian ninjas.

Gumaraid		2012-04-12 12:58:14 PM

Cheese Whiz Kid: How does Afghan women not wearing underwear help this situation?

Nobody wears underwear in the field unless they are a noob.

Teknowaffle		2012-04-12 12:58:54 PM

White soldier problems.

LeroyBourne		2012-04-12 12:59:05 PM

That Iranian ninja threat must be countered.

numbone		2012-04-12 12:59:08 PM

One more reason to GTFO.

Wasteland is a waste.

BokChoy		2012-04-12 01:01:46 PM

When the Taliban retakes control after we slink out of Afghanistan, these women will probably be the first ones stoned to death.

NutWrench		2012-04-12 01:02:52 PM

Inquisitive Inquisitor: Solution: ignore Afghanistan's idiotic moral code, continue raids.

This.

gretzkyscores: Solution: GTFO of Afghanistan. It's a sinkhole of lost lives and will never be "won".

/flame on

And this, too.

kobrakai		2012-04-12 01:03:00 PM

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Cheese Whiz Kid: How does Afghan women not wearing underwear help this situation?

How does it not?

I totally read that in Sterling Archer's voice. Good job.

Virtual Pariah		2012-04-12 01:03:06 PM

Who cares?

Why can't we just get out of the ME totally, let them blow themselves into soylent green, then re-colonize the damn thing once it's empty.

Or pull all the US troops out, airdrop armaments randomly into the field, then televise the proceedings.

That coward David Lopan		2012-04-12 01:03:18 PM

I'm all for training and empowering women, especially over there. But, the reason we're doing it is silly. If I'm a terrorist or criminal, I should not expect the police to make special accomodations just so if they bust down my door they don't see my wife in her underwear.

/This "culture" is archaic.

WillyChase		2012-04-12 01:03:42 PM

swahnhennessy: Inquisitive Inquisitor: Solution: ignore Afghanistan's idiotic moral code, continue raids.

Remind me to bust into your house some night and ogle your wife naked.

Unveiled =/= naked, whether the Afghans think so or not. My guess is also that our soldiers didn't break in to ogle at women, and that they are probably worried about more important things.

Solution; leave that midevil hellhole of a country to the barbaric religious zealots that inhabit it and save American lives in the process.

Cagey B		2012-04-12 01:03:52 PM

skullkrusher: Pro-tip: those who are fighting against the same people the US are fighting against become the "good guys"

StupidFly		2012-04-12 01:03:53 PM

Sure is a strange way to make a sandwich...

ihatedumbpeople		2012-04-12 01:04:41 PM

Better solution: Stop caring what they think.

skullkrusher		2012-04-12 01:04:57 PM

Cagey B: skullkrusher: Pro-tip: those who are fighting against the same people the US are fighting against become the "good guys"

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is there something wrong with you?

Englebert Slaptyback		2012-04-12 01:06:08 PM

WillyChase

Solution; leave that midevil hellhole of a country

*facepalm*

This is what happens when people stop reading.

thunderbird8804		2012-04-12 01:06:39 PM

I absolutely love this idea, totally awesome. I love even more the contortions the religious will go through to try and get past their own dogmas on a technicality.

Nurglitch		2012-04-12 01:07:19 PM

StupidFly: Sure is a strange way to make a sandwich...

Sandwiches taste better without underware being involved.

Freakin Rican		2012-04-12 01:08:35 PM

i quickly read the last line as Soul train. afgan women dancing? ok i guess

Santa's Knee		2012-04-12 01:10:04 PM

Cagey B		2012-04-12 01:11:32 PM

skullkrusher: is there something wrong with you?

No. I just find it pathetic that an adult can maintain a black-and-white view of alliances in a place like Afghanistan and actually give the moniker "good guys" to a faction aligned with Hamid Karzai.

Smeggy Smurf		2012-04-12 01:11:43 PM

gretzkyscores: Solution: GTFO of Afghanistan. It's a sinkhole of lost lives and will never be "won".

/flame on

There is a way to win. Kill all of them and they lose the war.