“A proposed new handbook for Americans serving
in Afghanistan warns them not to speak ill about the Taliban, advocate women’s
rights or criticize pedophilia, and the general in charge is not happy with it.
The draft of the newest Army handbook seems to
suggest that ignorance of Afghan culture is to blame for deadly attacks by
Afghan soldiers against the coalition forces, according to The Wall Street
Journal, which got a peek at the 75-page document. But its message of walking
on eggshells around the locals is not going over well with U.S. Marine Gen.
John Allen, the top military commander in Afghanistan.
"Gen. Allen did not author, nor does he
intend to provide, a foreword," said Col. Tom Collins, a spokesman for the
U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan. "He does not approve of its
contents."
And it looks like he is.
"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper
“It’s the presumption that Obama knows how all these industries ought to be operating better than people who have spent their lives in those industries, and a general cockiness going back to before he was president, and the fact that he has no experience whatever in managing anything. Only someone who has never had the responsibility for managing anything could believe he could manage just about everything.” - Thomas Sowell in Reason Magazine
