{"id":30136,"date":"2012-05-27T08:01:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T12:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30136"},"modified":"2012-08-20T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:02:04","slug":"us-to-blame-because-afghans-are-morons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30136","title":{"rendered":"US to blame because Afghans are morons"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post in an article entitled “Next to U.S. firing range in Afghanistan, a village of victims<\/a>” blames the US forces at Bagram Air Base for idiot local villagers near the base who send their children into an impact area to salvage shrapnel and expended brass cartridges and the children end up mangled or otherwise injured. <\/p>\n

Apparently, not all of the 40mm grenades which are supposed to detonate on impact after they’re fired from the soldiers’ rifles explode in the soft sand and children scrounging for metal to “to trade for an ice cream cone”. Of course, that phrase is meant to tug at your heart strings.<\/p>\n

The Post and Afghans complain that there is no fence around the impact area and that the warning signs are all written in English and not Pashto that the locals understand. The Post also complains that locals are poor and and have no other way to earn a living except by salvaging metal from the impact areas. So what are they going to do for a living after the Americans leave? And why is it just kids who are out there scrounging around through the explosives?<\/p>\n

And is a fence really going to protect against stupidity like this;<\/p>\n

Sometimes, the boys step on a grenade unintentionally. Sometimes, they pick up one, thinking that it\u2019s an empty shell.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how Khaili Jan, 10, lost both of his legs last year. His father had told him to stay away from the grenades and rockets, but the boy knew the shells of larger explosives were worth much more than small bits of shrapnel. When he saw a grenade that appeared to have detonated, he gave it a kick to get a better look, and the egg-size ordnance exploded.<\/p>\n

Now, the boy has two plastic prosthetic legs and crutches that sink into the sand when he walks through the desert.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat can he do now?\u201d his father, Amir Jan, asked. \u201cNothing. He can just sit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each morning Khaili Jan\u2019s brothers head back to the range where their brother was nearly killed, accompanied by a herd of sheep or towing an empty bag to collect shrapnel. The brothers and fathers of Rahman and Mohammed have already returned to the range, as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They know that it’s an impact area, they have the example of their legless brother to prove it, yet, there they are still trolling the area for metal and explosives. A fence to protect people that stupid would last about ten seconds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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