"Don't forget to remove your shoes when entering General Yamamoto's headquarters!"
Hat tip to David Stein of Counter Contempt
(Apparently, this film was not shown to Navy Seals Team 6.)
http://www.countercontempt.com/archives/1904
(Counter Contempt)
Here is my take on this being a retired DEA agent. Some of this may have validity, but gender segregation would be condemned if practiced by a Christian group. Secondly, there are times when these little niceties cannot be observed. If law enforcement goes to a house with a search warrant or an arrest warrant, there is no leaving and coming back when the right genders are present. There is no removing of the shoes. In such situations, the first consideration is to secure the house for the safety of all concerned. If it is necessary to enter a mosque in an enforcement operation, the team is not going to segregate itself and separate itself for purposes of gender segregation while making entry. Safety of the team is paramount and should not be sacrificed.
One day, these nice little rules are going to get an officer or agent killed. Of course, that will be nothing new. We just lost two more Border Patrol agents on the Arizona-Mexico border, and Janet Napolitano is insisting that our border has never been safer as our current (and past) administration refuses to secure said border. Meanwhile, Eric Holder's Dept. of Justice is still investigating the agents who conducted enhanced interrogation methods on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al, which opened the path to tracking down bin Laden.
Our enemies must be laughing at us.
"[...] enhanced interrogation methods on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al, which opened the path to tracking down bin Laden."
ReplyDeleteI already proved you wrong on this once before. Are you going to just keep repeating it anyways until it's "true?"
John McCain's take on the matter, in which he refutes your false claim.
YOU proved me wrong????
ReplyDeleteWho is YOU (Anonymous)? McCain says one thing, others say something else. You have not proved anything.
GET OFF MY BLOG, YA BIG DOPE111
As I recall, during the 1967 war, female soldiers in the IDF were kept out of certain front-line positions, because Arab soldiers would not surrender to females, and the Israelis would prefer to accept surrender from troops prepared to lay down their arms, rather than fight it out with more deaths on both sides to sustain a principle.
ReplyDeleteAs an experienced DEA agent, I'm sure you also know that these training films are partly produced to cover the government's legal and constitutional rear end. In practice, agents often do what the situation seems to dictate, which is sometimes prudent, and sometimes mendacious cover-up. You can't write rules for everything.
McCain is misleading everyone, and in doing so, gives cover to those who would harm our military being held as POWs in wartime. Enhanced interrogations were never meant for those captured in uniform. These people were treated as prisoners of war by the US.
ReplyDeleteEnhanced interrogations were and should be used on those not in uniform.
The Army manual gives the interrogator less than the police are allowed in the US. No Lying for one thing.
PS.
ReplyDeleteMy comments reflect another thing wrong with the way we play at war -we let everyone know our guide lines. I bet KSM was shocked initially when he didn't get a lawyer.
davod, do you also favor "enhanced interrogations" for those "not in uniform" who are in the custody of the police for "ordinary" crimes?
ReplyDeleteThe fundamental problem with enhanced interrogations is that people who don't have any useful information will make up anything just to stop the pain.