Monday, September 7, 2009

Not Just The Contractors

Oh, this is juicy. We hadn't gotten the full scoop on the most recent Death From Above escapades of our merry men & women bringing democracy to Afghanistan, figuring, well, it figures, what's new, what can we do?
But this
German soldiers in northern Afghanistan have been criticised for calling in an American F15 Strike Eagle to drop two 500lb bombs on a pair of hijacked fuel tankers in Kunduz at about 2.30am on Friday. Scores of local people who had gathered to siphon fuel from the lorries were killed in the explosions
where the dirty National Socialist Germans tried to stop entrepreneurial Afghans from improving their lives w/ free market principles, pales in comparison to this:
After a Nato airstrike killed as many as 125 people last week, General Stanley McChrystal was keen to get the situation under control — fast. When he tried to contact his underlings to find out what had happened, however, he found, to his fury, that many of them were either drunk or too hungover to respond. Complaining in his daily Commander’s Update that too many people had been “partying it up”, General McChrystal, head of International Forces in Afghanistan (Isaf), banned alcohol at his headquarters yesterday, admonishing staff for not having “their heads in the right place” on Friday morning — a few hours after the deadly attack.

America's brave, noble warrior class/caste, those "rough men" doing naughty things we don't want to know about (to paraphrase some violence-besotted asshole) on the other side of the world, defending our freedom to consume plastic shit made by China's army of indentured wage-slaves, are, it turns out, a collection of fucking loser alkies. (The bigger question being, are fucking loser alkies drawn to military life, or does war turn us into alcoholic fucking losers?)
These are AmeriKKKa's finest, & this is the best they can do; now you know why the Empire hasn't won a war since it took the white man's burden from the Limeys post-WWII.
The need to pull out now (As so many politician's fathers should have. We love that one.) is clear to us, George Will, & many other public intellectuals. What's the damn president waiting for? Cynic's Corner: What sort of mark-up does whichever contractor make on the booze & brew?

3 comments:

Substance McGravitas said...

In a leaked report, German officers branded their troops there “useless cake-eaters,” before a parliamentary report revealed that 3,500 troops had consumed about 1.7 million pints of beer and 90,000 bottles of wine in a year.

Gone are the days when you could rely on German soldiers to make a creditable effort.

M. Bouffant said...

Easily Impressed Editor Asks:

You read the whole thing? All the way to the bottom? Two pull-quotes, max, & we're history!!

The Germans, of course, have had their noble heritage of berserker slaughter ruined by the anti-NSDAP sissification that was imposed on them by their Commie/Jew conquerors. We hope Hitler's sorry now.

Another Kiwi said...

"Cake eaters", man, that's gotta hurt!