Rekindle that outrage. Our Taliban enemies injure their own children to gain access to our military system to carry out recon missions:
“It’s a tactic we see the enemy using, injuring these children or female civilians,” said Sgt. Billy Raines, an experienced medic and father of three girls. “They bring them to the local combat outpost, and at that point they gain access to a U.S. military facility. Then they get a flight on our helicopter so they understand how we fly.”
“But their vehicle to get to and fro is that injured person.”
A 2007 report written by a Provincial Reconstruction Team based out of Sharana in Afghanistan’s Pashtun-majority southeast, and published as part of the most-recent WikiLeaks cache, tells of an incident where villagers were “very upset” when local male escorts were not permitted to accompany injured women to the hospital. Their recommendation: “If at all possible, procedures must be emplaced to permit a male escort of injured females during MEDEVAC in respect of Pashtun culture and customs.”
It’s an essential concession to a deeply traditional society. But if some escorts are using this license to gather intelligence — such as details about the security on military bases, methods of flying and timing of medevac flights — then they become yet another danger facing the air ambulance teams as they criss-cross Marja to bring soldiers and civilians the care they need.
That's who we fight. That is our enemy. Do you doubt that they'd kill you and your family even though you voted Democrat the last 5 elections, still hate Cheney, live in a blue state, have a freaking "Coexist" bumper sticker on your freaking Prius, believe WikiLeaks showed how awful we are in Afghanistan (and Iraq), and earnestly discuss the problems of "Islamophobia" in America?
And because we are who we are, our troops treat those deliberately wounded children and women. They do it despite the knowledge that the male escort is scouting us in order to kill our troops.
The only good jihadi is a dead jihadi. This is just another reason I believe that.
