Recently, Qurans were burned by NATO forces, leading to uprisings and protests. More recently a soldier was detained for killing 16 civilians, 9 of them children, which created more hostility. Will violence worsen into total war, or will negotiations settle everything peacefully?
Look, a soldier's life in Afghanistan is dangerous, and stressful. Soldiers are weary. Sometimes they shoot people who they think are carrying a weapon or maybe reaching for one. I wouldn't be so harsh on a soldier.
Anyways to answer your question. A total war may be necessary. Of course, violence may escalate temporarily, but the enemy will totally be eliminated. Negotiations will not work.
1. Radical Muslims tend to not go into negotiations.
2. We are not fighting an real enemy. We are fighting more like armed individuals who hate America and it's allies.
The Taliban has pretty much been defeated now. They are an organized group and if we can get them to surrender that can help. But it seems we are fighting mostly armed individuals.
a soldier was detained for killing 16 civilians, 9 of them children
and the worst thing is that they want him to be judged in the usa and not in afghanistan. while he did this in afghanistan.
saying that it is a american citizen and therefor must be judged in the usa is bull-crap. it doesn't work that way. if it would work like that then why that guy from the UK send to usa for something he did in the UK where it was not even illegal to do.
Look, a soldier's life in Afghanistan is dangerous, and stressful. Soldiers are weary. Sometimes they shoot people who they think are carrying a weapon or maybe reaching for one. I wouldn't be so harsh on a soldier.
hmmm... did you read? 7 adults 9 children. and shooting for carrying a weapon is non-sense. they might aswell be on your side.
Anyways to answer your question. A total war may be necessary. Of course, violence may escalate temporarily, but the enemy will totally be eliminated.
didn't you learn a thing the last 10 year?
ow wait my bad, i now see who i respond to... i shouldn't just a waste of time.
What strikes me is why do the Talibans call every muslim victim a martyr ("we will avenge the martyrs")? I guess the answer is because they're extremists, but still...
Look, a soldier's life in Afghanistan is dangerous, and stressful. Soldiers are weary. Sometimes they shoot people who they think are carrying a weapon or maybe reaching for one. I wouldn't be so harsh on a soldier.
I agree that American soldiers in Afghanistan are poor boys, haning around in such a tensed conflict far away from home. I think that's why they sometimes get stupid ideas. That does not, however, justify or even trivialize in the least the deliberate murdering of so many civilians during their sleep. So yes, I would be as harsh as possible on this specific soldier.
look they take revenge on soldiers. soldiers are there and know there are people around that want them dead. (aka war) it's their own choise to be there.
only when they retaliate on inocent usa people (not UK) then we can relate it to this topic.
look they take revenge on soldiers. soldiers are there and know there are people around that want them dead. (aka war) it's their own choise to be there.
only when they retaliate on inocent usa people (not UK) then we can relate it to this topic.
All the allies are sane to them.Are u calling Us soldiers innocent?
2. We are not fighting an real enemy. We are fighting more like armed individuals who hate America and it's allies.
The enemy is real alright. It's just that they aren't the conventional ones in history. Drumroll for the cliched phrase of ''urban warfare''.
Look, a soldier's life in Afghanistan is dangerous, and stressful. Soldiers are weary. Sometimes they shoot people who they think are carrying a weapon or maybe reaching for one. I wouldn't be so harsh on a soldier.
So somehow the blood spilled of 16 civilians doesn't matter, because a soldier, might, MIGHT, be unhinged? He basically murdered people by just breaking into their homes and shooting them; which is still cold blood murder, and he should face the consequences of that.
witnesses(prisoners and local workers) say it was a whole batch of them and copies of quran were taken from prisoners. more over, I read 50 cvilians were killed by americans.
witnesses(prisoners and local workers) say it was a whole batch of them and copies of quran were taken from prisoners.
Of course it'd be much more offensive and plain stupid to purposely burn qurans, than if it is an accident; still, in both cases I don't see why people have to die for such a thing. Protests, demonstrations, all this is good, but there's absolutely no justification for going on a rampage, assaulting buildings and killing soldiers for this.
@macfan, I kind of agree that you can't be so harsh on a person in such extreme psychological conditions, but if you decide to not recur to heavy punishment to solve the problem the only other logical option to solve it is to remove armed forces from Afghanistan to make sure no other man will be in these conditions again. Not just "we can't really blame him, so let's just pretend nothing happened and let's be ready to repeat this same words when it will happen again in two months."
