Marine General's Blunt Comments Draw Fire

[docwebster]

SAN DIEGO -- At a panel discussion in San Diego Tuesday, a top Marine general tells an audience that, among other things, it is "fun to shoot some people."

The comment, made by Lt. Gen. James Mattis, came in reference to fighting insurgents in Iraq. He went on to say, "Actually, its a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot. I like brawling."

"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for 5 years because they didn't wear a veil," Mattis continued. "You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."

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What really depresses is this neanderthal actually got a smattering of laughter and applause.

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Sadly, I know I'll be declared a knuckle dragger

[disgruntledgrrl.livejournal.com]

But I'm with him on that. After all he did say "Some People" and if you encounter someone you know to be a wife beating ass hole who thinks nothing of chaining his daughter up and throwing her into the pool because she lifted her veil to look before acrossing the street* - then you're just full of crap if you say you didn't enjoy eliminating the guy even a little.
Roll it around a bit - WIFE BEATER. Man who beats the crap out of his wife until she can't make anymore sounds.
Yeah - he's a jar head, but he's just being honest.

I don't condone - but I'm not condemning either.

*True story. Written in Playboy (I think) by a woman who fled the middle east. I think the word "Princess" was in the title.

Re: Sadly, I know I'll be declared a knuckle dragger

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Point taken.

Myself, I'd prefer something far lengthier in duration and intense in pain for the wife beater than merely shooting them. That's over entirely too quickly, in most cases.

Well I'm sure the Marines do chase them around whooping

[disgruntledgrrl.livejournal.com]

But the dualing banjo music is just lost on most Afghanistinians.


Boy did I mangle the spelling on that. But I refuse to call them Afghans. My mother made afghans. :p

Re: Sadly, I know I'll be declared a knuckle dragger

[griffen.livejournal.com]

You've paraphrased and conflated a couple of those stories. The "Princess" series was written by a woman named Jean Sasson, for a Saudi princess using the pseudonym "Sultana," who told Ms. Sasson her story. There's three books, so far, about the abuses of women in fundamentalist-Muslim societies.

The man who drowned his daughter in the family swimming pool (sickening, but true) did so because she had exposed her naked body to men while retaining her veil and hiding her face - a severe violation of fundamentalist Muslim religious laws. One of her friends, who had participated in her activities, was married away to a nomadic man as his (I think) third wife. It was quite sickening to read about.

The first of the books is here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0967673747/qid=1107368764/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i4_xgl14/104-2258660-9764716?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

I hit the wrong reply button and left a better reply.

[disgruntledgrrl.livejournal.com]

But instead of flooding Doc's area with redundancies - I'll just ask, was that in Playboy? I can't remember.

Re: I hit the wrong reply button and left a better reply.

[griffen.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it was in Playboy, but the story is from the books I cited.