Hat tip Vlad Tepes
Horrific news came out of Afghanistan Tuesday morning when armed terrorists attacked a nursing home in Kabul. When it was over, the gunmen had slaughtered 12 mothers and nurses as well as two babies. Reportedly, the terrorists are also dead.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52631071
If you want to see some of the handiwork of what the BBC refers to as "militants", you can watch the video below (viewer warning).
Whether this was the Taliban, ISIS, or some other crazed Islamists, is not yet determined. Make no mistake, however: Whoever did this did it for the sake of Allah.
"But," the defenders of Islam will say, "it is the holy month of Ramadan. A time of fasting and reflection etc." For decent Muslims, I'm sure that is the case. Yet, violence does not decrease during Ramadan. If anything, it is the opposite. It is the same as when jihadists rush out of mosques on Fridays-the Islamic holy day of the week- and go on attacking sprees after hearing calls from fiery imams to attack the unbelievers. Again, not all mosques and not all Muslims, but the atrocities cannot be called rare or isolated. They are all too common.
As for Afghanistan, specifically, this merely underlines, for me, the need to get out of that God-forsaken place once and for all. There is nothing to save there. Afghanistan is what it is and always has been, an uncivilized hell-hole. Again, I am not referring to all Afghans. When I was an English teacher, I taught a few in the Washington DC area back in the 1990s. They were educated and likable. But Afghanistan, as a whole, is beyond saving. How many nations have tried to change that place? How many have failed? At this point, I say, "mission accomplished and goodbye". We drove out al Qaeda and eventually killed Usama bin Laden (in Pakistan), and we drove the Taliban from power (temporarily). What we won't drive out of Afghanistan is a 7th-century ideology that is solidly entrenched in the hearts and minds of the people. This is a place where women are stoned to death for adultery (real or perceived), while the same men who would cast the stones entertain themselves with pre-pubescent "dancing boys". Now this.
Frankly, I never want to hear the word "Afghanistan" again.
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