September 02, 2009

Stupid Outrage of the Day: Guards in Afghanistan Got Drunk, Had Good Time

A new Project on Government Oversight (POGO) report on private security contractors who guard the U.S. Embassy in Kabul makes several serious allegations. The most serious being allegations that they left their posts leaving the embassy nearly guard less.

The POGO report also claims that the private guards from ArmorGroup "hazed" incoming personnel. It doesn't really describe this hazing, but some forms of hazing are bad -- I guess.

And, if the point is that Marines should be guarding the embassy and not private security guards then I guess those making the point haven't been to many embassies. Outside the embassies locals guard. It's only once you get inside the embassy that Marines are in charge. At least, that's my experience abroad -- but I'm willing to be schooled on this. I'm guessing that the State Department hired an American firm to guard outside the embassy because the local Afghans couldn't be trusted?

But the MSM and State Department outrage of the alleged "lewd behavior"? Give. Me. A. Break.

And that the State Department, led by one Secretary Hillary Clinton, would feign such outrage? A woman who believed that similar lewd behavior in the oval office was completely understandable and that the country should just move on? I'm choking on the irony.

Because of the hypocrisy!

Let's analyze this *shocking* lewd behavior:

The report highlighted occasions when guards brought women believed to be prostitutes into Camp Sullivan and videotaped themselves drinking and partially undressed.

On what planet are these prudes living on that such behavior is considered shocking?

Her Royal Clintoness should watch The Dirty Dozen one more time. You know the scene I'm talking about.

Or pick up a history book. And then read it. Just the parts describing the etymology of phrases such as "filthy as a sailor" and "girl in every port" might suffice.

They even go on to call this kind of behavior "deviant".

Did these people not get invited to any parties in college?

But if she and fellow prudes at POGO really want a shocker they might read how until well into the Victorian Age women of ill repute were considered as vital to war as hardtack and dry powder.

More:

The report said supervisors held near-weekly parties in which they urinated on themselves and others, drank vodka poured off each other's exposed buttocks, fondled and kissed one another and gallivanted around virtually nude. Photos and video of the escapades were released with the POGO investigation.

Actual quote from one of the complaints describing the above: "no, they are not jamming guys in the ass per se, but they are showing poor judgment." He then goes on to describe the hazing as "gay shit".

I'm not saying that I'd ever participate in any type of "hazing" with gay overtones. Which is why I never joined a fraternity, peeps. Just sayin'.

But it's the outrage over it all that bothers me.

I'm also surprised that said anonymous whistle blower isn't being brought before a Congressional committee to explain why anything gay is bad or deviant. Isn't what he's saying a 'hate crime' to our betters in Congress these days?

The person who emailed me the article had this to say:

Don't buy into that (CNN comment) crap about not drinking in Kabul, Afghanistan. Shops were set up not far off base selling cases of beer of choice and booze of choice, just like our local liquor stores, but better and bigger. We even had a bar on top of our HQ until a car bomb took out.

The last five paragraphs of the WAPO article is devoted to the phenomenon of private contractors. What they don't tell you is that the vast majority of these contractors are civilians involved in support roles that have nothing to do with the images conjured up by the body of the story.

Why does the MSM hate the private sector so much?

Thanks to Phil.