Taliban kill more than 20 people (including children) for being "un-Islamic"

You're doing a lot of pussyfooting around from what I can see.

Pick one category or define your own. If you're going to make bold statements like that, own up to them.

 

I have to go ask my intern what he thinks first.



DD

 

Attack the messenger, but don't attack the truth.

 

Thus the winky guy, the irony was damned funny.

DD

 

Bwahahahahaha

 

hahahahaha.

I don't use emoticons, but assume I gave a forced laugh there.

(you're still pussyfooting around the topic at hand.)

 

I promise you, if we had the ability to, we could do it. You don't understand how many times I watched taliban under fire throw down their weapons and at that point, we couldn't fire anymore. They know our rules as well as we do, and they exploit them every chance they get. You only know what you read in the papers. I remember a news report of 4 young kids being killed by an helicopter while I was there. They were unarmed.

What you don't read is those 4 kids were being used to plant IEDs in the road under the assumption that we wouldn't shoot kids. Do you know what its like to see a truck get blown in half by a 200lb bomb? And knowing that that bomb was planted by the same people I gave my water and food to?

You keep your head in the sand, and continue reading the news, cause its accurate.

 

The Taliban are terrible people.

If you're willing to sink to their level, you're just as terrible, and perhaps even worse.

 

And sometimes the only way to deal with bullies is to kick their ass.

DD

 

We have people in the thread suggesting it might be good to drop an atomic bomb on Afghanistan.

I think there's a long long way from that to what the Taliban are doing.

ATW, refer back to your Mali thread please, while I have your attention (as always).

 

Once again, define kicking their ass, and for bonus points, reconcile that with American strategic objectives in the Middle East (which one might note is bullying anyhow, how ironic, emoticon wink etc.)

 

No - you define it....lol.

I like what we are doing for the most part.

DD

 

I already have.

You're the one who wanted to go "all in." Apparently not so anymore that you've been reminded what "all in" means.

 

I said if you are IN a war, you have to go all in to win it - and yes that means killing a lot of civilians in the process - taking their will to fight away.

Do I think we should nuke them, no - of course not.

But I would be in favor of invading Saudi Arabia with China, Europe and Russia and redistributing their oil wealth among their people...


DD

 

Well, you might have a big mouth, but my impression of you has notably improved on that note.

 

Of course I am opinionated - as clearly you are....now - maybe we can tactically nuke regions of Pakastan though.



Just kidding...

DD

 

If I had command decision in Afghanistan, the first thing I would do is boot the media.

Then I would step up night raids. They were the most effective way to eradicate the Taliban. I would step up drone strikes. They cause minimal civilian casualties. In fact they cause hardly any at all. They were more civilians killed by roadside bombs last year then coalition forces.

Then I would beef up the police. Offer more pay. Offer benefits. Then I would go about building schools, not mosques. Educate the people, show them there is more to this world then what they have. Bring in community projects, parades, festivals. Build parks, water parks, theaters, museums. Provide extra security obviously.

Offer rewards for turning in Taliban, then protection when they do. Towns loyal to the coalition would receive new markets, new roads, new hospitals. Then find people to be elected officials who are loyal to the nation of Afghanistan and that have no background to radical Islam, the taliban, or Karzai's corrupt government.

Continue the process until the problem solves itself.

That's just me.

 

You are hired.

DD