Afghanistan
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'Day of Rage'
Israelis [were] on heightened alert [yesterday] after the terrorist group Hamas declared Friday to be a "day of rage." Palestinians began the day by taking out their rage on Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, setting fire to the Jewish holy site. Reports indicate the shrine suffered serious damage. The Washington Post tells us that Muslims supposedly "venerate the site." Yet it was attacked and destroyed by Palestinian mobs in 2000.
What Does Obama Aim to Accomplish in Afghanistan?
He's putting American lives on the line for a war he's tired of fighting.
Will Bergdahl Walk Free — Again?
An officer comes to Bergdahl's defense by calling for no punishment.
Condemned if You Do: Sgt. Charles Martland
We should all want our troops in Afghanistan to intervene to stop the rape of boys, right? Surely, we don't want our U.S. Army to act like morally neutered crew members of the Starship Enterprise from the famed Star Trek TV series. Those fictional time and space travelers had a Prime Directive that forbade them from interfering in the development of less technologically advanced beings they encountered as they went "where no man had gone before."
'Bacha Bazi': Obama's Silence on Afghan Military's Child Rape
American soldiers are being punished for blowing the whistle on the systematic rape and enslavement of young boys at the hands of brutal Afghan Muslim military officials. Honorable men in uniform risked their careers and lives to stop the abuse. Yet, the White House — which was busy tweeting about its new feminism-pandering "It's On Us" campaign against an alleged college rape crisis based on debunked statistics — is AWOL on the actual pedophilia epidemic known as "bacha bazi." On Thursday, Obama administration flacks went out of their way to downplay Afghan child rape as "abhorrent," but "fundamentally" a local "law enforcement matter."
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