{"id":5503,"date":"2012-03-11T17:02:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T17:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2012-03-11T18:49:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T18:49:49","slug":"wanna-bet-murder-terror-murder-apology-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/11\/wanna-bet-murder-terror-murder-apology-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanna Bet? Murder = Terror, Murder =Apology in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bloody_hands.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bloody_hands-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bloody_hands\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5504\" align=\"left\" style=\"padding-right:15px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bloody_hands-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bloody_hands.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Following the brutal murder by an American soldier of <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2012\/03\/11\/world\/asia\/afghanistan-us-service-member\/index.html?hpt=hp_t1\">nine Afghan children and several Afghan women<\/a> and children, the US Embassy in Kabul issued a <a href=\"there is a risk of anti-American feelings andprotests in coming days\">cautionary message<\/a>, stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>There is a risk of anti-American feelings and protests in coming days.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>I am willing to offer a bet with anyone willing to take it that no US Government official will characterize this cold blooded murder as &#8220;terrorism.&#8221; I am willing also to bet that had an Afghan killed American children and women, US Government officials would immediately characterize that cold blooded murder as &#8220;terrorism.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I am willing to offer a bet with anyone willing to take it that US Government officials will apologize, as if that apology ends the issue (see <a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/28\/obama-to-apologize-to-afghanistan-again-and-again-and\/\">Koran burning, peeing on Afghan dead<\/a>, etc.). I am willing also to bet that had an Afghan killed American children and women US Government officials would not consider an apology the end of the issue. We&#8217;d bomb the shit out of someone in an act of vengeance.<\/p>\n<p>I am willing to offer a bet with anyone willing to take it that had these Afghan children and women been killed &#8220;accidentally&#8221; by a 500 pound bomb dropped from a US warplane thousands of feet above them we would not hear much of an apology at all.<\/p>\n<p>I am willing to offer a bet with anyone willing to take it that US Government officials will announce an investigation into the soldier who did the shooting, and that his ultimate punishment, if any (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/news\/local\/military\/military-frank-wuterich-no-longer-in-the-marine-corps\/article_c0c0eb92-3ae6-556b-9b8d-543f72429307.html\">Haditha<\/a>) will be less than the punishment Bradley Manning will receive for his alleged Wikileaks disclosures.<\/p>\n<p>Any takers on these bets, hit me up in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\">\n<h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/?p=40540\">Taiwan and Settled Diplomacy<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/?p=40508\">Will AI Kill Us All? 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I am willing to offer a bet with anyone willing to take it that no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,8,9],"tags":[840,161,1020,113],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-democracy","category-embassystate","category-military","tag-haditha","tag-kabul","tag-koran","tag-rice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}