[sinkspur]

We're showing disregard for Northern Alliance and Afghani civilian lives and they are not the enemy.

So you say. There's no proof of that, of course.

Just your mangy opinion.

[Demidog]

The fact that the Northern Alliance is doing all of the ground fighting is total proof that our leaders are afraid to use our own soldiers and instead are using these forces in order to avoid political fallout.

And you know that it's true because you yourself said that we have been inordinately carefull not to allow stories abotu civilian casualties to surface. Not because we value those lives but because we loathe the political ramifications.

Moral relativism has no place in war. Either we are justified in our actions and are willing to sacrifice our lives for this cause, or we are not.

As I said before, this is not a reflection on our servicement and women. They are inordinately brave for serving under cowards.