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Originally posted by MConnalley
Chinese soldiers are very honorable and brave they kept charging into marine lines in the Korean war, they don't use subversive tactics like the Taliban and they wont be there to win hearts and minds.
Originally posted by bjarneorn
And why would they be targetting "Chinese" and "Russian" tourists? Tarketing their own supporters? nah ... this has the word "false flag" written all over it.
More likely, it was
"western friendly government agents, posing as taliban executing some alleged spies. hoping to pin it on the taliban, to end whatever little opposition there is to the war in Afghanistan".
Originally posted by DataWraith
Just proves that the Taliban are cowards and idiots, killing innocent people for what? to prove a point that your a murdering scumbag?
Point well made mr Taliban, whatever happened to your sense of honour that you claim to have had in the past?edit on 24/6/13 by DataWraith because: Edited for spelling.
Originally posted by MrInquisitive
Originally posted by DataWraith
Just proves that the Taliban are cowards and idiots, killing innocent people for what? to prove a point that your a murdering scumbag?
Point well made mr Taliban, whatever happened to your sense of honour that you claim to have had in the past?edit on 24/6/13 by DataWraith because: Edited for spelling.
If the Taliban are idiots and cowards for doing this, what are US military/CIA contractors who kill innocent civilians using drones, while the pilots sit safely in some office building in the US.
In addition, consider the POV of the Taliban: they aren't necessarily well educated or world savvy. They just know that some g.d. foreign nation is using drones to kill their fellow tribal members, many of whom are women and children.
I saw a documentary in which Afghan villagers were shown pictures of the Twin Tower attacks. They didn't know anything about them or much of anything about the US. All they know is that some outsiders are attacking them and occupying their country. I could imagine hilly billy Taliban in the foothills of the Himalayas being just as ignorant and being generally xenophobic, given that their countrymen and women are being killed by some wicked foreigners. I provide this point in an attempt for you indignant know-it-alls to get an idea of what the mindset of these people may well be. Am I defending their actions? No. But I am explaining how their actions are not all the insane given their level of knowledge and what is being done to them.
Moreover, look at what the US does: In Fallujah, because four US mercenaries were killed and brutally dragged around, hung on poles, etc. and put on display, the US Marines laid siege to the town, forced all the women and children out -- in contravention of the Geneva Conventions -- and then went about systematically destroying the town and killing most of the male inhabitants, using tactics of the Waffen SS. This was clearly a case of collective punishment -- also against the Geneva convention. Instead of 9 people killed for revenge, thousands were killed. So 'Murikens ARE THE LAST people who should complain about revenge attacks by others. Remember Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Moreover, look at what the US does: In Fallujah, because four US mercenaries were killed and brutally dragged around, hung on poles, etc. and put on display, the US Marines laid siege to the town, forced all the women and children out -- in contravention of the Geneva Conventions -- and then went about systematically destroying the town and killing most of the male inhabitants, using tactics of the Waffen SS. This was clearly a case of collective punishment -- also against the Geneva convention. Instead of 9 people killed for revenge, thousands were killed. So 'Murikens ARE THE LAST people who should complain about revenge attacks by others. Remember Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Originally posted by AthlonSavage
reply to post by lonewolf19792000
The Taliban are criminals because most their attacks are on civilians. How can they justify themselves as freedom fighters when the passionately are engaged at every opportunity killing unarmed civilians.
Are the islamist terrorists aware of drone strikes? If so, what kind of person would knowingly place their children and family in harms way by being at home with them?
If you want to win the war of public opinion, you die in the daylight on the battlefield for what you beleive in. Soldiers and civilians alike would respect that and begin to question the reasoning of the war. As long as the enemy hides in the shadows behind woman and children and suicide bombing proxies there will never be a change in public opinion. Drone strikes will continue and public opinion will remain unchanged.