sand people are dumb

/k/  o brudasach

Why are sandpeople so bad at shooting?

>VBIED driving in the desert towards syrian army unit with a tank and several technicals
>tank and technicals fire on the large target approaching them head on
>somehow they fail to stop it with A FUCKING TANK
>ALLAHU AKBAR!!!
>they die

Maybe it was Allah's will?

https://youtu.be/faPdTOvZmJI
skip to 3:30 if u like
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Obviously Afghans aren't Arabs, but I saved this comment a while ago from a veteran (it's not me so don't bother asking questions):
>Afghan vet here (Although I think this looks like Iraq) I truly wish that after my time in that country that I understood them enough to explain. Their culture, society, everything about this place is so backwards that there truly is no comparison to the Western world. And I don't mean backwards as in we're right and they're wrong. I mean polar opposite. I've seen soldiers shoot eachother because one raped the other and had to get his honor back. I've seen a soldier rip IED after IED out of the ground without anything happening to him, but then another soldier does the same thing and is blown to smithereens. I've been an embedded trainer with them and time after time we teach them how to aim and fire their rifles and mortars. EVERY. FUCKING. TIME. they ignore what they're taught. And this isn't they are so overwhelmed by the combat that they can't function. This is them declaring that aiming does nothing, Allah will guide the bullets. Mortars don't kill people it is to be fired in their direction to scare them off and if Allah wills it they will die. I've seen an Afghan soldier fall off the back of a truck wearing a backpack full of rockets that explodes and kills everyone. Life is cheap to them in this part of the world. I don't know if it's apathy from decades of war, religious zeal, or if they are so uneducated that they are just really really dumb. I have had my mind blown by such dumb shit so much that this video doesn't even register to me as anything but just another Tuesday.



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>>30349569
Nihilism is popular in the ME. Allah will do everything. Honor is important- to win a contest is to b too proud (and not acknowledge that allah willed it) and would also dishonor everyone else (the losers). So why bother trying at all? Why bother trying to improve, when allah will make you win anyway?
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>>30349569
As someone who learned Pashto, Afghans are retarded and I haven't had one intelligent conversation in that language my entire deployment. They're just seriously stupid.
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>>30349569
Went back to the thread, this one is also interesting (not me):
>same, we did a 3 day clearing mission in a little village called Najit (spelling?) in Southern Afghanistan in 2012 and we lost 2-3 afghan soldiers and 5-6 afghan police because they would keep steeping on IEDs......like IEDs we already found and marked. on the last day of the mission the terp signaled to me that a Afghan soldier wanted to break off the clear path to go piss, we handed him a minehound so he could clear a path to go piss, he slings it over his shoulder and marches off into the brush and steps on a massive IED killing him instantly and more importantly destroying one of our $30,000+ duel band mine detectors. I literally could write pages of similar events



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>>30349821
not me:
>Part of my job was training the Iraqi Army in communication procedures. These guys literally believed the radios were magic. They had zero understanding of even the most basic scientific principles.
One time, I'm standing there with this Iraqi major and a truck rolls by with soldiers in the back. The engine sounds terrible and was literally smoking. I say "you gotta fix that truck, it's obviously broken." Dumbfounded he says something along the lines of "it's not broken... Look, it's still driving, it's fine."
That's when I realized everything we were doing over there was completely pointless. The whole experience was demoralizing.
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>>30349833
fucked up the greentext on that one, but here's another one (notme):
>I think I've posted this before, but I can't remember. My platoon was in the city of Hawijah at the police station on the night Saddam was hung. We were on full alert, full battle-rattle just waiting for an attack in retaliation. Fortunately nothing happened, but that night I had a guard shift in the turret of the Humvee guarding the front gate. It was a full moon that night and I noticed that every Iraqi police officer was staring at the moon as they walked by me. I was wondering what the fuck they were doing so I looked up too. It was the same fucking moon I've seen my whole life. A little while later, the sergeant on radio guard came over the comms and said the Iraqis think they can see Saddam's face on the moon. Apparently someone Photoshopped (or whatever it was at the time) his face superimposed on the moon. They were sending the picture to each other on their shitty flip phones and those retards believed it. Also they believed our Oakleys were x-ray glasses as if we ordered them out of the back of a comic book. Oh yeah, once on a mission in Bayji during my second deployment, I was doing a stupid little magic trick I know to entertain some kids. They went and got some of the adults, who I repeated the trick for multiple times. (It's an easy trick to figure out if you see it more than once. They never figured it out.) They started to demand that I produce money out of thin air. Then they started getting angry and the interpreter said they thought I was a warlock. My PL told me to switch out with one of the drivers just to get me out of there. I'm convinced that the majority of them are just stupid.



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>>30349993
I don't want to say that all arabs are hopelessly retarded because some of them can build rockets and mortars which requires an understanding of physics but I think most are.
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>>30349993
Within their armed forces is an incredible gap between regular units and the Republican Guard. This applies to Syria, Iraq, and I'm sure others. I understand the cultural "Don't exceed your superior's skills", but it's ridiculous when you see tons of men getting killed and vehicles knocked out, and the ones that have basic skills are considered "elite".
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>>30350170
That was all, unfortunately.
I'm probably gonna start collecting these since this really shows some insight, but it also makes you wonder if you should really even bother to fix the area. It's always "Insallah"

i do have this, though:
>It's very much religion. I've gone over training materials, describing exactly what you said about aiming and Allah. They'll try to shoot and hit the target, and if they don't, they throw the weapon on the ground and say, "Allah has cursed my weapon!"
>The book went on to explain that training, taking charge, even taking personal responsibility for one's own actions, are viewed as prideful, and sinful. Allah determines everything in their lives, and they are just pawns to his will.
>i read an interesting commentary on how (historically..) arab culture does not admit failure to be "their fault" .. so if a truck fails from zero maintenance it is "fragile design" problem, not lack of maintenance, or if you can't shoot for shit then "allah cursed your weapon" etc...


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>>30349856
>Oh yeah, once on a mission in Bayji during my second deployment, I was doing a stupid little magic trick I know to entertain some kids. They went and got some of the adults, who I repeated the trick for multiple times. (It's an easy trick to figure out if you see it more than once. They never figured it out.) They started to demand that I produce money out of thin air. Then they started getting angry and the interpreter said they thought I was a warlock.

Funny.

The same kind of shit happen in Africa with the french army. 2004, Ivory coast, some loyalist elements from an engineering regiment ("régiment de génie" in french) cross the DMZ to go north. They are intercepted by the french army and their weapons seized, as the UN mandate requests it.

Then the locals come around the near french FoB, asking to "see the genie"... Like a genie from a lamp or something.

The local rumor went from "the french capture the weapons of a genie regiment" to "the french capture a genie".

The locals even thought it was a panther-man who ate children, after the rumor spread around.

You can't make this shit up.


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>>30353219

>be me, doing PSD for some Dyncorp IED instructors
>standing outside building with bro
>5 afghans trying to start ATV
>afwani cannot into technology, start jumping on this shit
>ATV starts and takes the fuck off
>two guys standing in front run like the infidel machine is chasing them
>one breaks left, one breaks right into a drainage ditch
>infidel machine will not be denied for being jumped on
>ATV veers right into the ditch and smashes this poor fuck
>Harams are shouted
>The machine spirit will have blood
>ATV hits the wall, turns around and runs this guy over AGAIN
>A string of concerta wire calms the savage
>The four other guys are grabbing their injured fuckbuddy and two are arguing about what to do with him
>eyes rolled up, foaming at the mouth, and being yanked literally in two directions
>like kids fighting over a toy
>several other dung-punchers run up and one opens a bottle of water
>dosent pour it on him like a cooling tactic, closes this guys mouth and bottle feeds this guy water
>Myself and bro are too shocked to say anything or laugh
>after shift change run back and tell everyone in the BDOC and laugh for dayzzz
>ATV's wernt allowed to be driven on the JRAC after that

The sex ed class was an eye opener as well. It got comedy stupid at times. They are fucking retards.
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>>30354642
>Domestic violence
Its something you never really get used to someone tooling the fucking shit out of a woman and in Afghan, wife beating is practically a national sport.
Not sort of a bit of a smack or anything, but a full on shit kicking, lots of screaming and shit getting chucked around

>hurr you invadery bastards forcing your western memes on some 3000 year old civilisation!
Yeah... they're a bunch of wife beating, dope smoking, boy-raping, donkey bothering, murderous cunts you wouldn't trust around unattended livestock- but they're on our side, mostly. You should see what the 'enemy' gets up too in his spare time!



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>>30361752
I've had to work with people from Pakistan before. They're incredibly dumb even by the standards of south Asian outsourced tech plebes.
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>>30361843
I'm living in Europe. I grew up with these people, arguably some of the "less bad" Turkish ones, they're terrible all around. The vast mayority of them fails at the lowest school forms to the point where 80-90% do not graduate a school form that is seen as "dead end" to begin with.

This might sound extreme but I know people with down syndrome and depending on how bad their down syndrome is they tend to be equal to them if not more intelligent and have a better understanding.

Worse, you can't explain them things. At all. Every single last one of them is extremly confident in himself, which once again is a sign of low IQ. They think they know better, no matter what. If it's about any kind of task, they think they can find a better way and by better they think about an easier and more simplistic way that involves less effort. Which is why prople refuse to hire them. Without constant supervision they'll slack off and start skipping steps in the work process or not do anything at all.

This is before a whole host of other issues, such as extreme aggression, them being easily aggravated (you can sic two of them onto each other solely by telling one he insulted the other, they'll fall for it and go after one another), lacking basic understanding of cause and effect and so on and on.

Hell if you told someone who never experienced this, they'd think you'd be exaggerating and making things up but these people are so utterly "broken" in many ways by what their culture and ideology has done to them over the last few thousand years, especially the inbreeding it encouraged it's mind blowing.
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