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| KHAN NESHIN, Afghanistan-Corporal Joshua Brooks, a Marine serving with Team 3, Civil Affairs Detachment 11-2, greets students as they arrive for school here Feb. 25, 2012. The Marines of Team 3 provided guidance to the local government here to help them construct a new school. Brooks said visiting the school is the highlight of his deployment. The current school is made of mud and mortar, is overcrowded and only has enough capacity to hold up to sixth grade. The new school will have up to eighth grade and have more than enough room for students and teachers. Brooks is from Terre Haute, Ind., and is serving under Regimental Combat Team 5 and alongside 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion in Helmand province., Sgt. Michael S. Cifuentes, 2/25/2012 9:38 AM |
I always wondered why the Marine Corps continues to post pictures like the one above.
Its relentless.
It seems almost sappy.
And then I got it.
They realize that many (me included) understand that the Afghan people are not worth our sacrifice. They're piss poor allies and we should wash our hands of them.
Their leader is a criminal (well that just makes them like everyone else), their society is corrupt and to be honest I see nothing redeeming about them at all.
That's why the keep posting pictures of Marines with children.
They know that after all is said and done, they only have this card left to play.
Except for me, even that's not enough. Time to leave. Let the Afghan people do whatever it is they do. We have our own country to rebuild, enough wasting lives and money on theirs.
