CABL Forum - Recon Marine in Afghanistan

This one pretty well tells it like it is in Afghanistan. Not like CNN tells it.

From a Recon Marine in Afghanistan

From the Sand Pit. It's freezing here. I'm sitting on
hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of
the Hindu Kush Mountains, along the Dar 'yoi Pomir
River, watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads
to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza delivery
for thousands of miles.

I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to
fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I've
actually given up battling the chiggers and sand fleas,
but them scorpions give a jolt like a cattle prod.
Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like
transmission fluid, but God bless the Marine Corps for
the five vials of it in my pack.

The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe
it or not, they are human beings, which means they have
to eat food and drink water. That requires couriers and
that's where an old bounty hunter like me comes in
handy. I track the couriers, locate the tunnel
entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the
handheld, shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link
that tells the air commanders where to drop the
hardware. We bash some heads for a while, then I track
and record the new movement.

It's all about intelligence. We haven't even brought in
the snipers yet. These scurrying rats have no idea what
they're in for. We are but days away from cutting off
supply lines and allowing the eradication to begin.

I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over
him with my boot on his throat as I spit into his face
and plunge my nickel-plated Bowie knife through his
frontal lobe. But you know me, I'm a romantic. I've
said it before and I'll say it again: This country
blows, man. It's not even a country. There are no
roads, there's no infrastructure, there's no
government. This is an inhospitable, rock pit shit hole
ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no
jobs here like we know jobs.

Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his
family: join the opium trade or join the army. That's
it. Those are your options. Oh, I forgot, you can also
live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed
beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach
flu, if that's your idea of a party. But the smell
alone of those 'tent cities of the walking dead' is
enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully
scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.

I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks, and
Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtuns, for over a
month-and-a-half now, and this much I can say for sure:
These guys, all of 'em, are Huns... actual, living
Huns. They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. It's ALL
they do. They have no respect for anything, not for
their families, nor for each other, nor for themselves.
They claw at one another as a way of life. They play
polo with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons
into human cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns,
roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on
each other's barbarism. Cavemen with AK-47's. Then
again, maybe I'm just cranky.

I'm freezing my ass off on this stupid hill because my
lap warmer is running out of juice, and I can't recharge
it until the sun comes up in a few hours. Oh yeah! You
like to write letters, right? Do me a favor, Bizarre.
Write a letter to CNN and tell Wolf and Anderson and
that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown to stop
calling the Taliban 'smart.' They are not smart. I
suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they
are looking for is 'cunning.' The Taliban are cunning,
like jackals and hyenas and wolverines..They are sneaky
and ruthless, and when confronted, cowardly. They are
hateful, malevolent parasites who create nothing and
destroy everything else. Smart. Pfft. Yeah, they're
real smart.

They've spent their entire lives reading only one book
(and not a very good one, as books go) and consider
hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the
devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic
lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving
his quality of life is like trying to teach an ape how
to hold a pen; eventually he just gets frustrated and
sticks you in the eye with it.

OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon, so I have to get
back to my hole. Covering my tracks in the snow takes a
lot of practice, but I'm good at it.

Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off
the TV sets and move on with your lives. The story line
you are getting from CNN and other news agencies is
utter bullshit and designed not to deliver truth but
rather to keep you glued to the screen through the
commercials. We've got this one under control The worst
thing you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing
what we're doing over here, because you have no idea
what we're doing, and really, you don't want to know.
We are your military, and we are doing what you sent us
here to do.

You wanna help? Buy Bonds America.

Saucy Jack
Recon Marine in Afghanistan
Semper Fi
//"Freedom is not free... but the ////U.S.//// Marine
Corps will pay most of your share."//

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