Two Afghani nationals have gone missing from a Georgia AFB. So what do the collective ‘we’ think? Terrorists? Illegal immigrants looking for the good life?
And what, if anything should we do about it?
In the Deep South? With armed angry rednecks?
The DOJ needs to send out a rescue team.
Seven strip clubs within ten minutes of the base?
Obviously they’re just getting caught up with their shopping. They have Christmas in Afghanistan, right…?
How ya gonna keep them down on the base after they’ve seen Atlantee?
On a more sober note, there is a chance that they were abducted and lynched. Unlikely, but something to keep in mind amid the obvious shots for jokes.
Silenus, that thought ran through my mind, too, when I read the article this morning. I don’t want them to be terrorists running off to their cell leader with specs for all of our better war planes, but neither do I want them dead, victims of some kind of misguided frontier justice.
I recall this has happened before. Last time, it turned out the Afghanis involved were deserters, trying to avoid having to go back to Afghanistan.
Were they allowed to be off base at all?
Abduction from the air base seems unlikely.
What did the Afghan Army do to them when they were returned? :dubious:
:rolleyes: Yeah, ‘cause that happens ALL the time hereabouts. Can’t hardly step out the door without trippin’ over another lynched Afguinnea.:rolleyes:
Curious as to why something that has never happened (Muslim being lynched) anywhere in the US suddenly springs to mind when it’s a southern state?
Past history with the wrongly-colored?
I could understand if you were speaking of Indiana. 
Gotcha. So if a Jew goes to Germany today…
The three who bailed Camp Edwards last year had planned to head for Canada and seek asylum so they pleaded for it in the US when taken into custody: in the end one of them was approved for asylum in the USA last July, a second OTOH was denied last month (sure to appeal), and the third was eventually allowed to enter and apply for asylum in Canada where he has family and was approved in October.
(On my phone so I can’t attach the Boston Globe Nov. 20 2015 article link)
So, it may have looked like a decent chance if word got through. And with better foresight, you identify and plan to make it to some place with a community of compatriots and try to melt in as an undocumented cousin, then if stopped play the asylum card.
Not lynched, but just as deadly: having to subsist for a thousand miles on Moon Pies, boiled peanuts and those mummified hot dogs that roll for months under heat lamps.
Indeed, a fate worse than death.
I bought and ate a mummified hotdog once.
And now you’ve gone from preachin’ to meddlin’…