[IronJack]

Aside from the fact that savages gotta be savages, why would anyone blow up a healthcare clinic? Was it tainted by Western hands? Was it not halal? Was it just capable of doing some good, and therefore not in keeping with the murderous cult that is islime?

WTF is wrong with these vermin that they can't let even the most benign thing survive?

[Zhang Fei]

[Aside from the fact that savages gotta be savages, why would anyone blow up a healthcare clinic?]

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It’s not a religious thing. Insurgents can’t have the government doing good things for the population. To get recruits, insurgents have to maximize the population’s dissatisfaction with their lot in life. Having them blame the government for infant mortality and deaths from disease is helpful to the cause. That’s why the Taliban will bomb infrastructure and deny responsibility. Same kind of thing happened in Vietnam. And Iraq.

[Zhang Fei]

[Aside from the fact that savages gotta be savages, why would anyone blow up a healthcare clinic?]

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Most people aren’t so devout that they’ll deny the reality of their personal experiences. When a government clinic doctor saves your son, you won’t necessarily be the best friend of the entity that did the saving, but it will affect your readiness to strike out against that entity. Because you never know when another family member might need medical care. That’s just basic human instinct. It’s also why Israelis spend money treating Syrians who are otherwise hostile to them. And it’s why the Taliban destroy government infrastructure - to prevent the populace from forming any attachment to the ruling power.