Don't know if this is typical internet/email tripe, but it was a good read all the same...
> Marine stakeout
>
> Here is a U. S. Marine who is not afraid to tell it like it is.
> Political correctness doesn't mean beans to this tough young
> warrior......
>
> It's freezing here. I'm sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and
> shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush Mountains along the Dar 'yoi Pomir
> River watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake
> out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles.
>
> I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to fifteen seconds to
> avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given up battling the
> chiggers and sand fleas, but them scorpions give a jolt like a cattle
> prod. Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like transmission fluid,
> but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of it in my pack.
>
> The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they
> are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water.
>
> That requires couriers, and that's where an old bounty hunter like me
> comes in handy. I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and
> storage facilities, type the info into the hand held and shoot the
> coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where
> to drop the hardware. We bash some heads for a while; then I track and
> record the new movement.
>
> It's all about intelligence. We haven't even brought in the snipers yet.
>
> These scurrying rats have no idea what they're in for. We are but days
> away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to
> begin. I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over him with
> my boot on his throat as I spit into his face and plunge my nickel
> plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. But you know me; I'm a
> romantic.
>
> I've said it before and I'll say it again: This country blows, man. It's
> not even a country. There are no roads, there's no infrastructure,
> there's no government. This is an inhospitable, rock-pit s**t hole ruled
> by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know
> jobs.
>
> Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the
> opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are your options. Oh, I
> forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened,
> crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu if
> that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those 'tent cities
> of the walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to
> cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day. I've been living with
> these Tajiks and Uzbeks and Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtins for
> over a month and a half now, and this much I can say for sure: These
> guys, all of 'em, are Huns...actual, living Huns. They LIVE to fight.
> It's what they do. It's ALL they do. They have no respect for anything,
> not for their families or for each other or for themselves. They claw at
> one another as a way of life. They play polo with dead calves and force
> their five-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend the family
> honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each
> other's barbarism. Cavemen with AK47's.
>
> Then again, maybe I'm just cranky. I'm freezing my ass off on this
> stupid hill because my lap warmer is run ning out of juice and I can't
> re-charge it until the sun comes up in a few hours.
>
> Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me a favor, write a letter
> to CNN and tell Wolf and Anderson and that awful, sneering, pompous
> Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban 'smart.' They are not smart. I
> suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they are looking for
> is 'cunning..' The Taliban are cunning, like jackals and hyenas and
> wolverines. They are sneaky and ruthless and, when confronted, cowardly.
> They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create nothing and destroy
> everything else. Smart... Pfft. Yeah, they're real smart.
>
> They've spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very
> good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be
> products of the devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic
> lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of
> life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen; eventually he
> just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.
>
> OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon so I have to get back to my hole.
> Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice but I'm good at
> it. Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off the TV sets
> and move on with your lives. The story line you are getting from CNN and
> other news agencies is utter bulls**t and designed not to deliver truth
> but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the commercials. The
> worst thing you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing what we're
> doing over here because you have no idea what we're doing and, really,
> you don't want to know. We've got this one under control. We are your
> military and we are doing what you sent us here to do. You wanna help?
> Buy bonds, America .
>
>
> Saucy Jack - Recon Marine in Afghanistan . Semper Fi.
