Gurkha beheads Taliban...

[Rifleman]

After reading the article I got curious and watched several youtube clips of Gurkhas.

There were many interesting clips showing Gurkha units and training, but I liked these best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuTsU...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZMHw...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khfMT...eature=related

[jmm99]

to you, Bob, for your huge effort in the Defend Our Marines, and related web sites. Your own articles and your collections of articles by others bring home the realities of the impact of laws (sometimes applied correctly; other times not) on the individual troop.

And, keep gnawing at the generals' ankles.

Even in the Corps, generals have yielded to lawyer-politicians, going back (in my memory) to Ribbon Creek and Matthew McKeon. The problem there was not the court-martial (it found what it found); the problem was the generals' abject capitulation during the course of the Congressional investigation.

Regards

Mike

[subrosa]

what do you think the khukuri was invented for?

[subrosa]

Rifleman you said-

I wonder if the young Gurkha is disillusioned right now? He probably had ancestors who did the same thing during the earlier Afghan wars and were revered for it. Okay, so that thought can't be considered in how we conduct ourselves in 2010. I still wonder about it.

i totally agree! poor guy. not that this excuses him, but gurkhas are generally buddhist or hindus so they cremate- not bury so the whole idea of returning the body in one piece is not that big of an issue in the nepali culture.

it is very gruesome but the gurkha was not beheading him for crime, punishment or amusement. the guy was a dead terrorist commander who was attacking them and he needed to be IDed for intelligence purposes and they were in the middle of a fight. plus what else could be have done? (dont they have cellphones with cameras?)
!!

[jmm99]

wood, brush, large and small animals, etc. .....

[subrosa]

i know i know