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New Guideline for Afghan Troops: Don't Kill Westerners for Cultural Ignorance

clarityseeker2 Wrote: Sep 30, 2012 1:06 PM
A guy offers to buy a drink for an attractive young woman seated at a bar. She gives him the green light, so he goes to the end of the bar and whispers to the bartender to make up a Martini for her and to put some Spanish fly in the drink. The bartender whispers back to say he's all out of Spanish-fly and all he has left is Jewish-fly. "Jewish-fly?" Shrugging his shoulders, the guy says, "OK, put some of that in her drink." As she sips on the drink, she gets more and more cozy, really warming up to the guy. Finally, she finishes the drink, leans over and in a low, slow, and sexy voice, whispers in his ear, "Let's go shopping."

 

There's been a troubling uptick in "green on blue" violence as its known -- Afghan troops turning on their NATO counterparts and at times, killing them. Now, it seems an Afghan military official and a NATO chaplain have pinpointed a cause: cultural misunderstandings, where Western troops accidentally and unknowingly gravely insult Aghan troops. The two leaders have written a pamphlet for the Afghan troops, explaining that mortally offensive gestures to them are often completely meaningless to the Westerners.

It warns Afghan soldiers that their international allies may blow their noses in public or "show their excitement...

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