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Top U.S. Commander Orders All NATO Personnel Withdrawn From Afghan Ministries After Killing of Two Americans Over Koran Burning…

KABUL — The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Saturday recalled all NATO personnel working in Afghan ministries in the Kabul area — a bold and potentially divisive response to the killing of two American service members by an Afghan security official in the country’s fortified Interior Ministry earlier in the day.

Marine Gen. John R. Allen’s directive comes five days after U.S. military personnel burned a pile of Korans at the largest military base in Afghanistan in an apparently inadvertent act that set off violent protests across the country. More than 25 Afghans have died in those demonstrations, and four NATO soldiers have been killed by men wearing Afghan security uniforms since Thursday, when the Taliban urged Afghan soldiers and police to turn their weapons on their Western counterparts.

The week’s events have exposed a core vulnerability of the Obama administration’s strategy for winding down the decade-long Afghan war: a fraying trust between two presumed allies who must depend on each other to keep the insurgency at bay.

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58 comments
  1. Noma says:
    February 25, 2012 at 11:31 pm

    Time for a replay:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRQ3X4N1vmc&feature=related

  2. Gork says:
    February 25, 2012 at 11:32 pm

    OK, how about we withdraw everyone with the provision that we’ll bring back the drones if they dare to step out of line.

  3. the Boodge says:
    February 25, 2012 at 11:37 pm

    Fuck it, bring the troops home NOW and lets NUKE THE CAVE DWELLING, GOAT FUCKING A$$HOLES OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH! Hows that for you fucking CALIPHATE?

  4. The Original says:
    February 25, 2012 at 11:42 pm

    Three options: 1) The Afghan government gets control of its people . . . or 2 )Leave and then let them slip back to the 7th Century again . . . or 3) Leave and then bomb them back to the 2nd Century. Their choice.

  5. The Original says:
    February 25, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    Have you noticed that there are never any women in this “demonstrations”? Do the Afghan women have any life at all?

  6. Teacake says:
    February 25, 2012 at 11:49 pm

    Didn’t obama promise to bring home troops from here his first year? Why do we need to train their people when our people continue getting training in how to deal with them?

    Wasn’t the cover story we went there to get Bin Ladin? Or are we there helping with the heroine poppy trade?

    obama NEEDS to explain why we are there. Why he thinks its necessary to be there and he better give some damn good reasons… but he will say nothing.

  7. ImNoDhimmi says:
    February 25, 2012 at 11:56 pm

    The last two NATO soldiers were shot in the back of the head while at their desks.

    This should be the very last straw. If Obama wasn’t in the White House, maybe it would be.

  8. Teacake says:
    February 25, 2012 at 11:59 pm

    @ImNoDhimm – and from what I heard on radio news, they murderers were part of the staff who we were training. Not good at all. Obama needs to apologize to their families NOW and bring everyone home now.

    Let them slaughter each other. They are all pedophiles anyhow.

  9. BL@KBIRD says:
    February 26, 2012 at 12:11 am

    Going for a march upcountry Xenophon ?

    Or will you try to regain the trust of the noble people of Afghanistan? You will have to dance very fast with many presents.

  10. The Osprey says:
    February 26, 2012 at 12:16 am

    More rubble, less trouble. Go Curtis LeMay on their camel humping asses.

  11. chuck in st paul says:
    February 26, 2012 at 12:33 am

    Set up some faux meetings with the Taliban. When they are all settled in and eating some goat and rice, do a St. Valentines Day Massacre on ‘em. Again. And Again. And Again.

    Then leave.

  12. Nothing up my sleeve says:
    February 26, 2012 at 12:36 am

    Try to help these people find their way out of the dark ages by building schools, hospitals and propping their government up. Helping to rid them of the Russians and then Al Qaeda doesn’t seem to mean squat to these animals. In the future if another politician wants to waste the lives of our countrymen on nation building they should be rounded up and shot. We all know why we’re there and that is just to rape their country of its natural resources for gain of the bankers who make money regardless of who kills who. I say leave now and if you fuck with us again we’ll be back to make mushroom soup out of you.

  13. pat says:
    February 26, 2012 at 12:38 am

    Maybe Obama can apologize in person. :)
    He seems enamored with these savages. Better than his typical white grandmother for sure.

  14. Isaac Bishop Jr. says:
    February 26, 2012 at 12:46 am

    Well, since Obama wrote the exit strategy, it’ll work.

    I still say remove Afghanistan’s government as a real partner in this. Turn the entire AF-PAK theater into one where the Special Forces and Rangers move around the countryside in covert actions against both terrorists and their compatriots in the AF-PAK governments. Drones should fly over both Afghanistan and Pakistan, striking out of nowhere, with no warning or cooperation with either government.

  15. Axe says:
    February 26, 2012 at 12:58 am

    The books were desecrated with blasphemous additions written into them before they were burned. Would they not also burn desecrated korans if they came across them? We did them a favor by destroying them. We did nothing they themselves would not have also done. They should be thanking us if they truly followed the teachings they say it proclaims, and we have no reason to apologize for it.

  16. Liz says:
    February 26, 2012 at 2:23 am

    Last year the Daily Rash reported on an Afghan man who actually postponed stoning his wife to avenge the Koran burning by the Florida pastor. http://www.thedailyrash.com/afghan-man-reschedules-stoning-his-wife-to-avenge-florida-koran-burning

  17. JUSTKEEPITREAL says:
    February 26, 2012 at 2:30 am

    Get the hell out out of there now, lets not waste anymore good American lives there.
    You will never bring 6th century humanoid animals into the time being now, and with their satanic cult, and backward thoughts.
    I pray for Israel, and hope this country supports them.
    The future is looking dim.

  18. TexasPharmacist says:
    February 26, 2012 at 3:04 am

    A few dozen low-yield nukes delivered by B2s over strategic population centers would end this bullshit forever. I am sick and tired of dealing with the 11th century horseshit the Taliban and its apologists/enablers keep pushing. Send them to whatever the hell they think Allah is and let him get his ass in gear and sort their goat-fucking asses out.

  19. Jingo95 says:
    February 26, 2012 at 3:07 am

    This country is going to return to complete and utter shit (more so) the instant we leave.

    So there are really two options. Leave now or commit to staying essentially forever (say 50-100 years minimum). Staying for a little while will only result in pointless American deaths.

  20. Jen06 says:
    February 26, 2012 at 3:10 am

    Threaten to nuke Mecca if they don’t stop the insanity.

  21. Bea Arthur's Dick says:
    February 26, 2012 at 5:00 am

    Wait. You mean apologizing to 7th century savages doesn’t work?

    No.
    Way.

  22. paquette says:
    February 26, 2012 at 6:41 am

    There is no reasoning with these savages. They don’t care if it was an accident or not. All they want is to fight. The army should just clear out and leave them high and dry. Let these people live unto them selves there is no way one can help. Trouble is now how many of these savages are living here now, and this is what our country is left to deal with and they breed like flies. Now we will never be free of these savages. And the other problem is our government gives into these savages to the point they have more rights than we do. Allowed to build mosque, don’t have to go by our rules set out for everyone cause against their religion etc. and so the list goes on forever. Yes, our government bows to all their desires cause if we the people had our way we would deport them one by one. Air fleight would be free with no hard feelings.

  23. Jd says:
    February 26, 2012 at 6:58 am

    Since when have AMERICAN soldiers been referred to as NATO soldiers????? This is offensive.

  24. Rufus says:
    February 26, 2012 at 7:37 am

    WE are NATO.
    This order came directly from Obama.

    It’s all part of his surrender policy.

  25. Theadora says:
    February 26, 2012 at 7:44 am

    the Boodge says:
    February 25, 2012 at 11:37 pm
    ##

    Hey Boodge –

    why don’t you tell us what you really think. :-)

  26. Carl says:
    February 26, 2012 at 8:21 am

    Nothing will ever get better in that country. Bring our troops home…let the protesters have what they want and see how well it goes for them. Backwards people, backward religion, backward country…

  27. Maria says:
    February 26, 2012 at 8:26 am

    Diplomacy will never find success when one party involved ebraces terrorism.

    Limited war is a tragic concept that has cost this country the lives of a shameful number of its best citizens.

    With a boob in the White House, this cannot end well….or perhaps at all…

  28. Rufus says:
    February 26, 2012 at 9:07 am

    7 more US soldiers wounded in ANOTHER attack.
    I guess Obama’s apology strategy isn’t working out so well.

    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/seven-us-troops-wounded-in-grenade-attack-as-afghan-president-calls-for-calm/story-e6frf7lf-1226282116704

    Or maybe he will say that if he didn’t apologize, things would have been much worse.

  29. BlueSky says:
    February 26, 2012 at 9:27 am

    Fishing Korans Out of Pakistani Sewer

    http://moonbattery.com/?p=8533

    ….”This is the book that brought humanity out of darkness and into the light of Islam” ….and now, in the Capital City of Lahore, in the world renowned Fort of Islam that is Pakistan, we scrounge in a massive open air canal of raw sewage and waste….Praise Allah…and pass the pooh.

    http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/tdn.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/b/05/b05e2e18-754b-5678-a16e-e705b404f247/4f3a320ef1d56.image.jpg

  30. Teacake says:
    February 26, 2012 at 9:59 am

    I really hate it that the Left is so quite about all this. If this was going on under an R you know they would be screaming and demanding that we pull all the troops out and stop insulting those people. Not a peep.

  31. Sandy says:
    February 26, 2012 at 9:59 am

    Nuke em all!

  32. OEFvet says:
    February 26, 2012 at 10:02 am

    DOUCHE! This general is the same who spoke in arabic and pronounced afhcrapistan with an accent while giving his apology to the NOBLE people’s, government and murderers of the great Offganistan. FUCK HIM!

  33. Thunder Lizard says:
    February 26, 2012 at 10:07 am

    We were justified to go into Afghanistan and kill Al Qaeda and destroy the Taliban government. We did that, so why are we still there? If they re-group, then we hit them again only harder this time and without putting boots on he ground. They would understand that.

    But no, that’s too simple and definite a solution. And it takes testosterone to do that. No one in Washington D.C. has testosterone anyway.

  34. gastorgrab says:
    February 26, 2012 at 10:09 am

    I hope the social engineers are watching this.

  35. czekmark says:
    February 26, 2012 at 10:13 am

    We need to withdraw everyone. We can still take out virtually anyone we want with drones.

  36. Davey Mac says:
    February 26, 2012 at 10:18 am

    Nothing up my sleeve says:
    February 26, 2012 at 12:36 am

    Try to help these people find their way out of the dark ages by building schools, hospitals and propping their government up.
    —————————————-
    After the murder of our soldiers, this was my point to. Fuck ‘em. Leave, and take OUR infrastructure with us. You can’t fix stupid on either side of the globe.

    VOTE – ABO November 2012

  37. Teacake says:
    February 26, 2012 at 10:22 am

    The government gets away with this because unlike the Left, we don’t make a huge stink about it. I guess having responsibility at home has a lot to do with it, but as a group, we are nothing to fear. “They” walk all over us and they get away with it.

  38. BlueSky says:
    February 26, 2012 at 10:26 am

    “..The man who shot two military officers Saturday at the interior ministry was a junior intelligence officer with ties to a Pakistani religious school, an Afghan counter-terrorism official said.

    The gunman was identified as Abdul Saboor, an employee in the ministry’s intelligence department, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

    “We believe it was 100% linked to the Quran burning because of the religious background of this junior officer. He spent two months in a Pakistani madrassa,….”

    …Muslims believe the Quran is the word of God, so holy that people should wash their hands before touching the sacred book…..”

    http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/26/world/asia/afghanistan-burned-qurans/?hpt=hp_t3

    …or wash off the book first if fished out of a Lahore sewage canal ….

  39. Extirpates says:
    February 26, 2012 at 10:41 am

    In the Middle East,, there is great confusion over the definition of “Animal Husbandry”.

  40. StrangernFiction says:
    February 26, 2012 at 10:44 am

    Nation-building in Mohammedan countries was never a good idea and never will be. So unbelievably tragic that such good men and women have died as a result of this absurd policy.

    Islam is not a religion of peace it is a cult of death.

  41. Ohio Dan says:
    February 26, 2012 at 10:47 am

    There was time, not so long ago, when being American would assure your safety as the world respected us and no one wanted to fuck with us. Now our PC approach to world affairs has our people on trial in Egypt, supposedly an ally, killed in Afghanistan by our allies and an ex president afraid to travel to some countries for fear of arrest for war crimes by our allies. I blame this on both parties and I am sick of it.

  42. Teacake says:
    February 26, 2012 at 11:00 am

    No matter how long we have troops anywhere in the middle east, the men will always indulge in bestiality and pedophilia – they will always enjoy carving and butchering people. There is no point being there. As long as they are muslim their society will only get worse.

  43. The Original says:
    February 26, 2012 at 11:04 am

    I will feel very sorry for the women of Afghanistan when we leave because they will be forced back into slavery and non-personhood. No education. No voting. If the woman survives her husband, she will be left alone to live on the streets with her children. Women will be beaten and tortured by men with no help from law enforcement. Women will be stoned for absolutely no reason except to rid the woman who was inconvenient.

    Karzai will not survive if we leave. Maybe he shouldn’t. He basically has turned his back on what the US did for his country.

  44. Teacake says:
    February 26, 2012 at 11:08 am

    The Original, this just goes to show us all that the UN is a totally useless organization. If anything there should be a country carved out for women and their children to live if they choose not to stay in those male-crazed shitholes?

    Not one of those countries is safe for women or children. Thing is it would have to be a non-islamic country and that would never happen. lol

    islam is the problem. islam creates shitholes and assholes.

  45. Nevyan says:
    February 26, 2012 at 11:11 am

    Even the Romans reached their limits when it came to Carthage.

    Destroy everything. Salt the Earth. Scatter their people to the winds.

    And let it be a lesson to Islamists of what we will do again and again and again if need be.

  46. Uncle Baruch says:
    February 26, 2012 at 11:17 am

    Jimmah Obummah Cahtuh is scrambling not to have a repeat of the assassination of Adolph Dubs that led to the Soviet Union taking over Afghanistan.

    Toss in the fact that there are hostages being held in Egypt, and it’s 1979 all over again.

  47. Marmo says:
    February 26, 2012 at 11:19 am

    Yup, time to get out of that shithole Afghanistan. Nothing we can do will make them like us. Nothing we can do will make them become civilized. I knew when they had their grand council years ago and decided that their constitution would be based on the koran and sharia law, that Afghanistan was a lost cause. Iraq, too, is a big question mark. But at least now we know for sure that there is no helping islamic countries.

    No nation based on islam could ever be considered civilized.

  48. Revolted says:
    February 26, 2012 at 11:21 am

    The linked article talks about the problem of “fraticidal killings” — no, we are not the afghanis brothers and we will never be so. Obviously, now that the NATO forces are leaving and everyone know the nation will descend into the darkness of islame, afghanis are trying to buy themselves some safety by being seen in riots against the Americans and to prove their loyalties by killing randomly selected Americans. This is the chaos of our departure and the coming Dark Ages.

    @The Original — No, Afghan women do not go out in public into crowds that hold men who are not in their family. That is why the demonstrations are all-women or all-men. The women are at home behind walls where they should be, waiting for their owners to come home and demand sex or food. I pity those women though enough of them find solace, I suspect, in mistreating their servants and slaves. Islam = submission to allah and subjugation to most everyone else in your small world.

  49. StrangernFiction says:
    February 26, 2012 at 11:22 am

    This is a MUST READ:

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/why_is_obama_in_bed_with_the_muslim_brotherhood.html

  50. chickadee says:
    February 26, 2012 at 11:22 am

    The muzz are dangerous savages.
    They prove it time and time again.

    We are going to have to make a decisive stand against them.
    No more nation building. No more aid. It just makes them stronger.
    More difficult to deal with when the inevitable clash comes.
    We pull out of the m.e. Let them kill each other.
    Then we sweep in and finish the job.

    The civilized world heaves a sigh of relief.

  51. Commieobamie says:
    February 26, 2012 at 11:27 am

    Look, their all chanting “Hey, hey, burn a koran a day. Hey, hey, burn a koran a day!”.! “.

  52. aeroguy48 says:
    February 26, 2012 at 11:47 am

    In a roundabout way I think this is a great devlopment, obama will retreat saving many lives of brave Ameicans from this hell-hole, but the defeat and retreat will be his downfall from the American Public.

  53. czekmark says:
    February 26, 2012 at 11:58 am

    StrangernFiction says:
    February 26, 2012 at 10:44 am

    Islam is not a religion of peace it is a cult of death.

    Which is why nothing will change as long as Islam exists.

  54. Pendog says:
    February 26, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    Ill Douche is feverishly drawing homemade apology cards to send to his paramours in the Middle East to show his sincere sorrow that the Insano-muzz were forced to kill some Americans to avenge their cult’s porn manual.

  55. BL@KBIRD says:
    February 26, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    “a bold and potentially divisive response”

    Running for safety is a bold action now. And distrusting Muslims is divisive.

    Only one thing remains immutable.

    Life is tough, tougher when you insist on being stupid.

  56. Spurwing Plover says:
    February 26, 2012 at 12:26 pm

    Time to pull out of this UNITED NATIONS and tell these forgein goverments to solve their own problems

  57. Rose1 says:
    February 26, 2012 at 12:54 pm

    The Original: Afghani women have no rights. How can you have a life if you have no rights?

    Good on the General, but duh. Hell yeah, retreat immediately. Save our soldiers. Diplomats and NGOs, at your peril.

    moehammy was the lowest form of human character. There is so much to be so ashamed about in following the dictates of such an animal. How can anyone call themselves a mooslum? It is such a badge of shame and ignorance. That’s why they have to kill others that speak the truth about their degenerate leader and his mad ravings. Sickening ideology.

  58. Noovuss says:
    February 26, 2012 at 12:56 pm

    So………
    How’s that progressive idea of country building going?
    You can’t take “practicing Muslim” tribes from the 5th century and build a country.
    Some of you are still crying about the women and children.
    The women are baby factories for children that grow into Jihad killers.
    Bush, the progressive, started this madness and Obongo, the progressive, continues it.
    Insane!
    Like I said before, nuke it from orbit.

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