MUBAR IN AFGHANISTAN

The temptation is pretty strong to replace the sanitized MUBAR (Messed Up Beyond All Recognition) with the down and dirty FUBAR. If you don’t know what FUBAR is then you are a better person than me, and I won’t explain it to you.
What brings me to this place is the senseless slaughter of the medical workers in Afghanistan – 6 Americans, one German, one British and 2 Afghan translators. The driver, an Afghan, was allowed free because he begged for his life and quoted the Quran. There are strong suspicions that the driver was in on this spree.
There was nothing to be achieved by killing these people. They were solely there for humanitarian purposes. These doctors understood the law of the land and although they may have been Christian they were in compliance of the laws forbidding witnessing for Jesus.
So it was purely murder out of demonic hatred with the purpose of robbery.
MUBAR.
These killers are inhuman. To massacre unarmed and innocent people, people who loved the Afghan people and were bringing relief for sight problems, for no motive other than hatred and thievery tells me a few things.
There is no winning with these people. The British tried, the French tried, the Soviets tried, and they all were humbly defeated.
What makes us think the American-lead coalition will be any different?
My God, can’t President Obama see that he is going to wind up in the history books as another LBJ if he doesn’t pull out soon?
This is the present day Vietnam, and there is no hope for victory.
Even if you drive out the Taliban this is a male-dominated society that has always treated women with great indignity.
Education has never reformed a culture, no matter how much we wish it could.
John Dempsey, who works in Kabul for the U.S. Institute of Peace, says Christian groups will have to consider their position.
He said: "I don't think they necessarily need to withdraw but I certainly think after what's happened earlier this year, and of course today's attack, they have to reassess what it means to be a Christian organisation in a country where they often are the ones singled out and targeted, and there may be measures they could take to improve their security for themselves.
"So I think there is still room for Christian organisations to operate in many parts of the country, but they'll have to be careful in terms of selecting where those might be." (BBC News)
So if we pull out does it mean that all the innocents and soldiers have died in vain? Maybe. But not necessarily so. If it takes the death of these workers, or the death of native Afghans blown to bits by errant coalition missiles, or even the death of professional soldiers to bring us to the realization that there must be alternative ways to deal with the Afghan problem, then so be it.
However, if we continue on the course we are set up currently then there is no hope.
And my friends, this is truly FUBAR.