Obama Apology Shows Lack of Understanding of Afghan Culture of Shame

We are blessed to live in a modern culture of guilt. All that is expected of the guilty is to offer an apology. Etiquette requires the offended party to accept the apology and all is forgiven and probably forgotten. No tears, no bloodshed, no beheadings. Everybody moves on. Is there anyone in the Obama administration who would accuse the Afghans of having arrived at something similar to a modern culture? For that matter, is there anyone anywhere who would describe that tribal land of mountainous deserts, burkas, honor killings and thousand year old feuds as modern? Have we no one in our administration that knows the difference between the modern cultures of guilt and the ancient tribal cultures of shame?

Shame is not as convenient as guilt; in fact it is so inconvenient that the etiquette of shame requires that it be hidden, forever. Whatever the sin, the bigger sinner is he who exposes the shame of another. Apparently it needs to be pointed out to our administration that no one in that primitive culture would ever be so stupid as to expose his own shame; this has been lost on the Obama administration. Shame shall not be forgiven, it shall not be forgotten and it will never be ignored. It is a sin that will be remembered for a thousand years and beyond. And it will be avenged. In blood. Mr. Obama, the shame you admit to with your ill conceived, ill advised apology which was offered to the Afghan people with total ignorance of local customs, is already reaping the only possible outcome. The sin is right now at this very moment being washed in blood, American blood. The blood of those who you, Mr. Obama, have condemned to death. Condemned to die for a sin that you freely admit to, yet it is a sin that in fact was not even committed. The desecrators of the holy Al Koran were not even those Americans who now die because of this administration’s lack of understanding of the country they seek to control, but in fact was a sin of desecration committed by Afghan prisoners themselves, by writing in the holy book – which is prohibited. How is it that the propaganda machine of this primitive tribal culture can turn around the course of events so that they the sinners and desecrators now become the aggrieved while we, the supposedly advanced technological society must kowtow and plead forgiveness for that which we did not even do. And you tell us you can win this war. And that things are calming down, thanks to the shame you have admitted to in your apology for that which we did not do. Is this what you will tell the widows?


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