Better to be disciplined than shot. That seems to be the message coming from Jan Kubic, who runs the U.N. mission in Afghanistan. Responding to the reprisal killings of two more Americans by an Afghan soldier and an Afghan literacy teacher (!), both Muslims, Mr. Kubic said that after "the profound apology there must be the second step... appropriate disciplinary action. Because only after such a disciplinary action the international military forces would be able to say yes, we are sincere."
Today's killings -- it's already Thursday afternoon in the armpit of the world -- are the latest in a series of deaths as anti-Americanism rises following the burning by US soldiers of several copies of the Qu'ran -- the Holy Book of Islam. Both were killed just as the top NATO commander allowed a small number of foreign advisers to return to work at Afghan ministries after more than a week of being locked down in secure locations because of the killing of two other Americans.
Walt guesses the literacy teacher thinks that killing Americans for desecrating the Sacred Scripture will teach the Americans a lesson in cultural literacy, if nothing else. If so, he doesn't know Americans very well. See "Why the Afghans keep killing Americans", posted here on Sunday.
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