What the missionaries were or were not expecting is irrelevent. Due to their lack of concern for their security they have placed our fighting men and women at risk and have diverted them from their original mission in Afghanistan. Thus the missionaries actions were indecent and selfish. Again, either ensure your own security or stay out. Our troops didn’t sign up for this nonsense.
You make good points. But I know that "this nonsense" is part and parcel of what my son did indeed sign up for. When the missionaries were taken hostage in the Philipines, it was all his dad and I could do to make him stay in high school and wait.
It is possible that when the “chatter” starts on these dirt bag’s (Taliban) communication channels about where they are holding these hostages that it will lead our troops right to the enemies den?
In this case this “nonsense” will increase the security of our troops by killing more indecent Talibanis.
Then by your logic the only way that you can then save our troops from ever having to rescue you from a predicament is to stay home with your doors securely barred. Never light a match or sharpen a knife in case you have to be rescued by an ambulance crew or fireman, and never ever drive a car. Only this way can you be responsible by never risking a rescuers life.
Just what is the origional mission in Afganistan? Is it to dominate the land with troops forever? Or is it to break the power of the Jihad to keep them from attacking America again?
If you think that a gun is the answer to stop the Jihad, by all means keep sending troops to fight and die till they run out of men, or we do. The Jihadi under stand war, blood and death, it is after all their religion.
War indeed is the only way to hold the Jihad back, but getting the Jihadi to understand the error of their ways is how to stop the Jihad at is source. The Missionary's are front line troops in this war my friend. Only they can permanently stop the Jihad, by killing the evil in its nest, and replace it with love instead of hate.
These people are real heros, they are the ultimate propaganda machine on our side and are worth their weight in gold in this war. The hard part is finding enough of them to risk their lives to heal the Arabs of their death cult. One missionary, effectively placed in a village can break the entire Jihad in that village. Try that with one soldier.
You can keep a jihadi down at gun point but never change his ways. With a missionary you can change his ways so that he no longer is a Jihadi, but another missionary. The secret weapon is God Himself because this is a religious war not a political one. Islam is a religion of war and conquest. War is not the result, it is the object of their religion.
What the missionaries were or were not expecting is irrelevent. Due to their lack of concern for their security they have placed our fighting men and women at risk and have diverted them from their original mission in Afghanistan. Thus the missionaries actions were indecent and selfish. Again, either ensure your own security or stay out. Our troops didn’t sign up for this nonsense.
EXACTLY.