Soldier Slaughters 16; Korans Safe and Sound

An American soldier has been reported to have snapped and slaughtered 16 people including women and children in Afghanistan. Looks like Obama is going to be doing a lot of bowing and apologizing in the coming days, not that it does any good.

From the DailyMail here:

Sixteen innocent Afghan civilians – including nine children and three women – were shot and killed by a rogue U.S. soldier who opened fire after suffering a ‘mental breakdown’ early this morning.

The Army staff sergeant, who was stationed at a U.S. base in Kandahar, reportedly entered three Afghan family’s homes at about 3am Sunday morning and began the killing spree. A relative of the deceased added that he then ‘poured chemicals over their dead bodies and burned them.’

The shooter was identified by U.S. officials as an Army staff sergeant from Fort Lewis in Washington state, and was believed to have acted alone. Initial reports indicated he returned to the base after the shooting, calmly turned himself in and was taken into custody at a NATO base in Afghanistan.

War is hell. I honestly find it hard to believe that we are doing anything with the post-stoneage culture of the Afghanis. Nothing there will change as long as they remain an Islamic dominated society, and its time we stopped pouring money down the drain there. The slaughter was likely because the local chieftan betrayed the soldier’s unit somehow or maybe it was related to the silliness over the Koran burnings. But hey, at least no one bled on the Holy Book of Islam, right?