No Spitting Towards Mecca

JOINT SHURA
Local residents of the towns of Gawragi and Negari gather at a shura, or meeting, with U.S. troops to discuss progress in the district. Several farmers and elders asked questions about current projects in the area in the Nawa district, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Nov. 3, 2011. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jeff Drew

Marines Warned: Don't Spit Toward Mecca -- Town Hall

Uncle Sam is getting a little weird. Make that a lot weird. Having dumped hundreds of billions of dollars into a sinkhole called Afghanistan -- populated by misogynistic, pederastic, tribalistic and religiously supremacist primitives -- to no avail, he has hit on a new plan for winning those ever-elusive Afghan "hearts and minds."

Uncle Sam has decided that the answer lies in the latrine with the U.S. Marine Corps. No kidding. When nature calls, Uncle Sam has decided he wants every U.S. Marine equipped with a map and compass, or some other way of knowing direction. This is to ensure that no U.S. Marine in Afghanistan urinates in the direction of Mecca ever again.

Now, there's a winning strategy.

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My Comment: Who are these people who make these decisions?