Please enlighten me, Why?
What outcome do these murderers hope to gain?
How can they possibly think that by murdering innocent babies it will help their cause?
Thanks in advance
I think it as simple as a show of power (as in ‘we’re in charge’ and you’ll follow our rules) and, as a by product, making an example to those who would rebel. It’s difficult to enslave an educated population. The left does that here w/o physically cutting heads off.
Don’t we deserve this as a people for the half-billion abortions we have patiently done?
I ask “Why there?, why not here?” We are the wealthiest and have killed so many for the most material of reasons.
Asking “why” people following islam do this is a waste of brain cells and breath. They just need to be scythed down like wheat until they noodle out that their continued actions will result in their extinction.
“Please enlighten me, Why?
What outcome do these murderers hope to gain?
How can they possibly think that by murdering innocent babies it will help their cause?”
Here is your answer:
Peshawar school attack: Taliban’s ‘revenge’ for Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Peace Prize
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/peshawar-school-attack-talibans-revenge-malala-yousafzais-nobel-peace-prize-1479754
A great quote from a Batman movie... “Some people just want to see the world burn”...
This attack was meant as a message to the Pakistani military leadership (many of the students are children of military officers). The message: If you take action against us, we will murder your children.
The Nazis did much the same thing.
It will be interesting to see how the Pakistani military responds.
Intimidation and polarization, its mixed.
Killing army officers kids is meant to discourage attacks by the army. Some officers may be looking over their shoulders at their personal interests.
It also reduces the public perception that the army can protect the local people from the Taliban if they can’t protect their own. This may reduce their willingness to cooperate with the army/make them more willing to work with the Taliban. Its all about who is seen to be more dangerous.
Also possible that the army will freak out and commit its own atrocities, making enemies that the Taliban can recruit.
In any case there is little downside in such an organization doing this sort of thing as they don’t depend on conventional morality, even by Paki standards.
These are islamists. Where have you been?
IIUC, the children were all of families in the military, who have been (or supposed to have been) hunting down the Taliban. Terrorizing the "enemy" by killing his kids. Like Beslan, without the rapes.
In response to what do they hope to gain?
What most Taliban and other terrorists do not realize is that they are subconsciously suicidal. Thus all their acts lead to death for others and ultimately themselves. This will most likely unite Pakistanis in searching them out root and branch in the wild areas and others as well. Should be good news for Afghanistan as well. Here is an Al Jazeera article on the attack. The death toll is up to 142. I chose Al Jazeera as I figured the more than 1,000 comments would give us a better sense of Muslim world feeling on this attack and possible actions than MSM.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2014/12/fighters-attack-army-run-school-pakistan-20141216742794184.html