isn't it terrible that killing like this is a glimmer of light , good vs evil.....
we're so far off in this country of mine....
[isn’t it terrible that killing like this is a glimmer of light , good vs evil.....
we’re so far off in this country of mine....]
The Afghans are fighting an enemy that operates by traditional rules that go back to Alexander, who slaughtered* all the men, and sold the women and children into slavery, after he captured the Persian capital Persepolis:
https://www.livius.org/sources/content/diodorus/alexander-sacks-persepolis/
9/11 was the first time I had really thought about Afghans in decades. What I know is that the Taliban sheltered and trained al Qaeda. And the people running Afghanistan today fought the Taliban.
Some see Afghans as vermin, undifferentiated mud people in the mold of “the wogs begin at Calais”. Way I look at it, a Taliban government will provide shelter to terrorists plotting to kill American civilians, unless we exterminate the Afghan people. We won’t even kill known Taliban on sight if they’re not carrying weaponry, let alone their kin who hide, feed and supply them, so how are we going to kill every single Afghan? So I root for the side that is killing the Taliban. Anyway, this is what awaits anti-Taliban Afghans if they lose:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Mazar-i-Sharif_(1997%E2%80%9398)#Recapture_and_massacre_(August_1998)
[At 10 am on 8 August 1998, the Taliban entered Mazar and for the next two days drove their pickup trucks “up and down the narrow streets of Mazar-i-Sharif shooting to the left and right and killing everything that moved — shop owners, cart pullers, women and children shoppers and even goats and donkeys.”[31] More than 8,000 noncombatants were reported killed in Mazar-i-Sharif and later in Bamiyan.[32] In addition, the Taliban were criticized for forbidding anyone from burying the corpses for the first six days (contrary to the injunctions of Islam, which demands immediate burial) while the remains rotted in the summer heat and were eaten by dogs.[33] The Taliban also reportedly sought out and massacred members of the Hazara, while in control of Mazar.[31]]
* Ever wonder why guerrilla warfare was seldom a problem for past conquerors? Now you know. Slavery was actually a step up, from a human rights standpoint. The adult men of the defeated nations got to live, instead of being killed on the spot.