Tim Kennedy: Why I want to quit fighting and go back to war
Tim Kennedy’s awesome Twitter account touched on a variety of topics this week, including why he wants to quit fighting…
Tim Kennedy’s awesome Twitter account touched on a variety of topics this week, including why he wants to quit fighting and go to war.
Tim Kennedy @TimKennedyMMA
If it wasn’t for Game of Thrones between the lack of violence in my life and apparent deficit of zombies I’m not sure I would survive.
According to NSAC athletes can now appeal to have elevated testosterone levels. In other words you just have to ask so you can cheat.
According to my eight year old the tooth fairy is evil. His tooth will go underneath the dogs bed tonight.
If you wear Affliction shirts and have a lots I’m sorry but we can’t be friends.
The 400,000 soldiers buried at Arlington Nation Cemetery. #ThingsThatInspireMe
I have said it for 10 years @gloverteixeira is the real deal! He will leave everyone bloody and unconscious.
Muslim fanatics threatened @ladygaga I’m somewhat unfamiliar with her music but you can now say I’m in her corner and have her back!
Everyone is freaking out about these “zombie” outbreaks. It’s nothing to get worked up about (I am jumping for joy with excitement!!!!)
This is why we do it. This is why I want to quit fighting and go back to a job that makes a difference: cnn.com
Article Kennedy was responding to:
A hospital in northern Afghanistan admitted 160 schoolgirls Tuesday after they were poisoned, a Takhar province police official said.
Their classrooms might have been sprayed with a toxic material before the girls entered, police spokesman Khalilullah Aseer said. He blamed the Taliban.
The incident, the second in a week’s time, was reported at the Aahan Dara Girls School in Taluqan, the provincial capital.
The girls, ages 10 to 20, complained of headaches, dizziness and vomiting before being taken to the hospital, said Hafizullah Safi, director of the provincial health department.
More than half of them were discharged within a few hours of receiving treatment, Safi said. The health department collected blood samples and sent them to Kabul for testing.
“The Afghan people know that the terrorists and the Taliban are doing these things to threaten girls and stop them going to school,” Aseer said last week. “That’s something we and the people believe. Now we are implementing democracy in Afghanistan and we want girls to be educated, but the government’s enemies don’t want this.”
There have been several instances of girls being poisoned in schools in recent years.
In April, also in Takhar province, more than 170 women and girls were hospitalized after drinking apparently poisoned well water at a school. Local health officials blamed the acts on extremists opposed to women’s education.
The Taliban recently demanded the closure of schools in two eastern provinces. In Ghazni, the school closure was in retaliation for the government’s ban on motorbikes often used by insurgents. People in Wardak said the Taliban has been a little more lenient and has allowed schools to open late after making changes to the curriculum.
The battle indicates broader fears about Afghanistan’s future amid the drawdown of U.S. troops in the country.
NATO leaders last week signed off on U.S. President Barack Obama’s exit strategy from Afghanistan, which calls for an end to combat operations next year and the withdrawal of the U.S.-led international military force by the end of 2014.
During the Taliban’s rule from 1996 to 2001, many Afghan girls were not allowed to attend school. The schools began reopening after the regime was toppled by the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. However, observers say abuse of women remains common in the post-Taliban era and is often accepted in conservative and traditional families, where women are barred from school and sometimes subjected to domestic violence.
