Comments on: The Lions of the Hindu Kush

By: Danger

Danger — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:08:29 +0000

If you can get your hands on it (it is out of print) read “Afghanistan, where God only comes to weep” The story of a Woman’s struggle from before the Soviet Union invaded up to the weeks before the US became a presence. An emotional read but, after my months there, an admittedly accurate portrait.

By: MaxDamage

MaxDamage — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:38:40 +0000

Incidentally, remember when the Taliban blew up those 100 foot-tall statues of Buddah? Remember the shock and consternation throughout the world? How dare these simpletons destroy such great works of art, such monuments to human achievement, why darned near one of the seven wonders of the world?

What was the response?

(cricket)

Yeah. For those unwilling to fight for their cause, their approval or disapproval is worth about as much as a bucket of warm spit. They’re fair-weather friends and hardly worthy as enemies. They are best ignored, as there simply *has* to be something more important to be concerned about.

– Max

By: MaxDamage

MaxDamage — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:32:23 +0000

Am I the only one to think that the society advocated by the Taliban isn’t worth saving? Granted, I shouldn’t judge another and perhaps their moral code is every bit as valid as my own, etc…

My moral code doesn’t include murder. For being a woman. With a job.

Theirs does.

Some say that we’re poorer for having certain species extinct. The passenger pigeon, the dodo bird, the mammoth. Perhaps, had they lived, our lives would be a little better somehow.

The Taliban? Somehow I doubt they’d be missed, nor our status be less if they were gone.

The real question, here, is why haven’t they been killed by the Afghans already.

– Max

By: deMontjoie

deMontjoie — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:42:00 +0000

May God* bless her soul.

One would hope that at least three qualified applicants will step-forward to pick-up her job.

In any society worth saving, this is what would happen. I’m hopeful, but not too optimistic. We’ll see.

*Not Allah, he obviously doesn’t give a shit.

By: Grumpy

Grumpy — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:11:25 +0000

Lex, I’m a little confused, but what can you expect from a “Dumb Ass Vet”. Are you telling us, in all of Afghanistan, they could only find a woman, who had the brass, where it counts, to do this job? This speaks volumes about the Afghan men. The Taliban was in such FEAR of this one WOMAN, the ABSOLUTE TERROR DROVE THEM TO MURDER HER, A MERE WOMAN! THIS “MERE WOMAN” DIED WITH HONOR AS A HERO TO THE AFGHAN PEOPLE! THE KILLERS ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT TO EVERYTHING SACRED AND THE AFGHAN PEOPLE.

By: ASM826

ASM826 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:23:06 +0000

…against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Might apply to both this and the previous post.