If not Somalia then Saudi Arabia, isolated parts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and just about any Muslim state/country. They've been doing it that way for thousands of years. Are we so suddenly right and they're so wrong.
It IS horrifying to read/hear about things like this... but they thought differently. Just as we think nothing of girls going around in bikini's in their own front yards mowing the lawn they think it's scandalous. Perception.
But it is sad, very sad that they didn't take the girl's word for it that she was raped and jumped to the worse conclusion. I'd felt better if they at least had given her an investigation and an R-kit to confirm her story before taking her out and stoning her to death... not that I think stoning to death is right and not the death of a child. It's primitive but it is what is prescribed in their Koran.
True they do however, need to move out of the dark ages of the past and into the present.
So what are we going to do about it? Go to war with them? Police their religious beliefs? Call them terrorists? Invade their country and tell them how to live to OUR beliefs?
Last time we tried policing this country U.S. service men were humiliated.
Eventually the people will get tired of their warlords and rise up themselves. If they want our help... they'll know who to ask.
Let's start with the bottom. In point of fact, if you are referring to the Bush/Clinton intervention , US servicemen were desecrated, not humiliated. Any careful analysis of the battle from a military sense shows our service personnel fought well and bravely, inflicting wildly disproportionate casualties. Had "Defense" Secretary Les Aspin not withheld M-1 tanks from our soldiers, they would likely have routed the Somalis. The only ones deserving of "humiliation" are Lyndon Johnson, Bill Clinton and Bush the Lesser - all of whom never understood that half measures get troops killed and missions failed.
It would never occur to me to allege that the barbaric practice here is common to all Arabs or all Muslims.... I am, franky, extremely disappointed to read such a thing here. These cannibals do not represent mainstream beliefs. In point of fact, you don't see such atrocities or beliefs from the vast majority of these people. No, this most assuredly is not your average Arab, Black or Muslim at work here. We don't need to convert the Middle East to our beliefs and practices because the huge majority do not subscribe to such things. Their beliefs will serve just fine.
Yes, this act so
wrong. If one cannot concede that fact, is there any practice at all that's damnable? What if they'd cooked and eaten her afterwards? What if they'd used blades to cut apart all the women in her family - well, cuz they'd been doing it for centuries (as if
that makes it better and not worse!).
No invasion needed. Our forces have been engaged periodically in Somalia against these militia groups, who by some amazing coincidence are allied with al Qaeda. There is also a piracy issue, which will also require force to handle. I simply suggest adding a couple of extra fire bombs for the child murderers.
