Ok anyone who had any doubts about why we need to be there and stop these people (and I use that word only to avoid the censor) can now give their heads a shake.
Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spying
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/worl ... 028704.cms (
KABUL: Suspected Taliban militants executed a seven-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan after accusing him of spying for the government, a provincial official said Wednesday.
The child was captured by the militants in Sangin district of southern province of Helmand Tuesday, Daoud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said.
"The militants killed the seven-year-old boy in Heratiyan village of the district, on charges of espionage for Afghan government," Ahmadi said, citing information provided to police by relatives.
Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spying
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The Taliban are one screwed up crew.
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Would this the be the “moderate” or the “extremist” Taliban?
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Re: Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spy
Them's the ones the CBC calls 'militants'.JakeYYZ wrote:Would this the be the “moderate” or the “extremist” Taliban?
Re: Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spy
That would be the “really bad guy’s” as opposed to the “bad guy’s”...Thanks
How’s that Airborne saying go again?
How’s that Airborne saying go again?
Re: Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spy
A serious question. What do you think Israel would do to kids caught spying or something?
Why not take a look (if your stomach can handle it).
This is the truth can you handle it? Or are you going to blame someone else?
Don't tell me you care about some arabs on the other side of the world..you dont.
http://www.counterpunch.org/cook06172009.html
All in a Day's Work for the IDF
Beating and Torturing Children
By JONATHAN COOK
Nazareth.
The rights of Palestinian children are routinely violated by Israel’s security forces, according to a new report that says beatings and torture are common. In addition, hundreds of Palestinian minors are prosecuted by Israel each year without a proper trial and are denied family visits.
The findings by Defence for Children International (DCI) come in the wake of revelations from Israeli soldiers and senior commanders that it is “normal procedure” in the West Bank to terrorise Palestinian civilians, including children.
Col Itai Virob, commander of the Kfir Brigade, disclosed last month that to accomplish a mission, “aggressiveness towards every one of the residents in the village is common”. Questioning included slaps, beatings and kickings, he said.
As a result, Gabi Ashkenazi, the head of the armed services, was forced to appear before the Israeli parliament to disavow the behaviour of his soldiers. Beatings were “absolutely prohibited”, he told legislators.
Col Virob made his remarks during court testimony in defence of two soldiers, including his deputy commander, who are accused of beating Palestinians in the village of Qaddum, close to Nablus. One told the court that “soldiers are educated towards aggression in the IDF [army]”.
Col Virob appeared to confirm his observation, saying it was policy to “disturb the balance” of village life during missions and that the vast majority of assaults were “against uninvolved people”.
Last week, further disclosures of ill-treatment of Palestinians, some as young as 14, were aired on Israeli TV, using material collected by dissident soldiers as part of the Breaking the Silence project, which highlights army brutality.
Two soldiers serving in the Harub battalion said they had witnessed beatings at a school in the West Bank village of Hares, south-west of Nablus, in an operation in March to stop stone-throwing. Many of those held were not involved, the soldiers said.
During a 12-hour operation that began at 3am, 150 detainees were blindfolded and handcuffed from behind, with the nylon restraints so tight their hands turned blue. The worst beatings, the soldiers said, occurred in the school toilets.
According to one soldier’s testimony, a boy of about 15 was given “a slap that brought him to the ground”. He added that many of his comrades “just knee [Palestinians] because it’s boring, because you stand there 10 hours, you’re not doing anything, so they beat people up”.
The picture from serving soldiers confirms the findings of DCI, which noted that many children were picked up in general sweeps after disturbances or during late-night raids of their homes.
Its report includes a selection of testimonies from children it represented in 2008 in which they describe Israeli soldiers beating them or being tortured by interrogators.
One 10-year-old boy, identified as Ezzat H, described an army search of his family home for a gun. He said a soldier slapped and punched him repeatedly during two hours of questioning, before another soldier pointed a rifle at him: “The rifle barrel was a few centimetres away from my face. I was so terrified that I started to shiver. He made fun of me.”
Another boy, Shadi H, aged 15, said he and his friend were forced to undress by soldiers in an orange grove near Tulkarm while the soldiers threw stones at them. They were then beaten with rifle butts.
Jameel K, aged 14, described being taken to a military camp where he was assaulted and then had a rope tightened around his neck in a mock execution.
Yehuda Shaul, of Breaking the Silence, said soldiers treated any Palestinian older than 12 or 13 as an adult.
“For the first time a high-ranking soldier [Col Virob] has joined us in raising the issue -- even if not intentionally -- that the use of physical violence against Palestinians is not exceptional but policy. A few years ago no senior officer would have had the guts to say this,” he said.
The DCI report also highlights the systematic use of torture by interrogators from the army and the secret police, the Shin Bet, in an attempt to extract confessions from children, often in cases involving stone-throwing.
Islam M, aged 12, said he was threatened with having boiling water poured on his face if he did not admit throwing stones and was then pushed into a thorn bush. Another boy, Abed S, aged 16, said his hands and feet were tied to the wall of an interrogation room in the shape of a cross for a day and then put in solitary confinement for 15 days.
Last month, the United Nations Committee Against Torture, a panel of independent experts, expressed “deep concern” at Israel’s treatment of Palestinian minors.
According to the DCI report, some 700 children are convicted in Israel’s military courts each year, with children older than 12 denied access to lawyers in interrogation.
It adds that interrogators routinely blindfold and handcuff child detainees during questioning and use techniques including slaps and kicks, sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, threats to the child and his family, and tying the child up for long periods.
Such practices were banned by Israel’s Supreme Court in 1999 but are still widely documented by Israeli human rights groups.
DCI says it has been disturbed by reports from several children of a special tiny cell, referred to as No 36, at a detention centre near Haifa. The cell has no windows or ventilation, its walls are dark and a dim light is kept on 24 hours a day.
In 95 per cent of cases, children are convicted on the basis of signed confessions written in Hebrew, a language few of them understand.
Why not take a look (if your stomach can handle it).
This is the truth can you handle it? Or are you going to blame someone else?
Don't tell me you care about some arabs on the other side of the world..you dont.
http://www.counterpunch.org/cook06172009.html
All in a Day's Work for the IDF
Beating and Torturing Children
By JONATHAN COOK
Nazareth.
The rights of Palestinian children are routinely violated by Israel’s security forces, according to a new report that says beatings and torture are common. In addition, hundreds of Palestinian minors are prosecuted by Israel each year without a proper trial and are denied family visits.
The findings by Defence for Children International (DCI) come in the wake of revelations from Israeli soldiers and senior commanders that it is “normal procedure” in the West Bank to terrorise Palestinian civilians, including children.
Col Itai Virob, commander of the Kfir Brigade, disclosed last month that to accomplish a mission, “aggressiveness towards every one of the residents in the village is common”. Questioning included slaps, beatings and kickings, he said.
As a result, Gabi Ashkenazi, the head of the armed services, was forced to appear before the Israeli parliament to disavow the behaviour of his soldiers. Beatings were “absolutely prohibited”, he told legislators.
Col Virob made his remarks during court testimony in defence of two soldiers, including his deputy commander, who are accused of beating Palestinians in the village of Qaddum, close to Nablus. One told the court that “soldiers are educated towards aggression in the IDF [army]”.
Col Virob appeared to confirm his observation, saying it was policy to “disturb the balance” of village life during missions and that the vast majority of assaults were “against uninvolved people”.
Last week, further disclosures of ill-treatment of Palestinians, some as young as 14, were aired on Israeli TV, using material collected by dissident soldiers as part of the Breaking the Silence project, which highlights army brutality.
Two soldiers serving in the Harub battalion said they had witnessed beatings at a school in the West Bank village of Hares, south-west of Nablus, in an operation in March to stop stone-throwing. Many of those held were not involved, the soldiers said.
During a 12-hour operation that began at 3am, 150 detainees were blindfolded and handcuffed from behind, with the nylon restraints so tight their hands turned blue. The worst beatings, the soldiers said, occurred in the school toilets.
According to one soldier’s testimony, a boy of about 15 was given “a slap that brought him to the ground”. He added that many of his comrades “just knee [Palestinians] because it’s boring, because you stand there 10 hours, you’re not doing anything, so they beat people up”.
The picture from serving soldiers confirms the findings of DCI, which noted that many children were picked up in general sweeps after disturbances or during late-night raids of their homes.
Its report includes a selection of testimonies from children it represented in 2008 in which they describe Israeli soldiers beating them or being tortured by interrogators.
One 10-year-old boy, identified as Ezzat H, described an army search of his family home for a gun. He said a soldier slapped and punched him repeatedly during two hours of questioning, before another soldier pointed a rifle at him: “The rifle barrel was a few centimetres away from my face. I was so terrified that I started to shiver. He made fun of me.”
Another boy, Shadi H, aged 15, said he and his friend were forced to undress by soldiers in an orange grove near Tulkarm while the soldiers threw stones at them. They were then beaten with rifle butts.
Jameel K, aged 14, described being taken to a military camp where he was assaulted and then had a rope tightened around his neck in a mock execution.
Yehuda Shaul, of Breaking the Silence, said soldiers treated any Palestinian older than 12 or 13 as an adult.
“For the first time a high-ranking soldier [Col Virob] has joined us in raising the issue -- even if not intentionally -- that the use of physical violence against Palestinians is not exceptional but policy. A few years ago no senior officer would have had the guts to say this,” he said.
The DCI report also highlights the systematic use of torture by interrogators from the army and the secret police, the Shin Bet, in an attempt to extract confessions from children, often in cases involving stone-throwing.
Islam M, aged 12, said he was threatened with having boiling water poured on his face if he did not admit throwing stones and was then pushed into a thorn bush. Another boy, Abed S, aged 16, said his hands and feet were tied to the wall of an interrogation room in the shape of a cross for a day and then put in solitary confinement for 15 days.
Last month, the United Nations Committee Against Torture, a panel of independent experts, expressed “deep concern” at Israel’s treatment of Palestinian minors.
According to the DCI report, some 700 children are convicted in Israel’s military courts each year, with children older than 12 denied access to lawyers in interrogation.
It adds that interrogators routinely blindfold and handcuff child detainees during questioning and use techniques including slaps and kicks, sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, threats to the child and his family, and tying the child up for long periods.
Such practices were banned by Israel’s Supreme Court in 1999 but are still widely documented by Israeli human rights groups.
DCI says it has been disturbed by reports from several children of a special tiny cell, referred to as No 36, at a detention centre near Haifa. The cell has no windows or ventilation, its walls are dark and a dim light is kept on 24 hours a day.
In 95 per cent of cases, children are convicted on the basis of signed confessions written in Hebrew, a language few of them understand.
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Re: Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spy
how are you going to stop them? We can't stop crime in our own cities.mcrit wrote:Ok anyone who had any doubts about why we need to be there and stop these people (and I use that word only to avoid the censor) can now give their heads a shake.
Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spying
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/worl ... 028704.cms (
KABUL: Suspected Taliban militants executed a seven-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan after accusing him of spying for the government, a provincial official said Wednesday.
The child was captured by the militants in Sangin district of southern province of Helmand Tuesday, Daoud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said.
"The militants killed the seven-year-old boy in Heratiyan village of the district, on charges of espionage for Afghan government," Ahmadi said, citing information provided to police by relatives.
Are you going to have $300/hr lawyers represent people who live on pennies a day?
Are you going to have a non corrupt police force?
Are you going to convert them to your religion or something? What's the plan?
Kill em all?
How's somalia since the US "liberation?
That'll buff right out
Re: Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spy
Clinton pulled out after, the infamous "Black Hawk Down" firefight. He was a nancy.How's somalia since the US "liberation?
More appropriately:
How is Al Anbar after we pulled out?
Quite fine.
It's amazing what we can accomplish when we're allowed to finish a job.
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Re: Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spy
Amazing how CNN misses this eh? We must look for amazing sources, such as these three wackos...Dash-Ate wrote:A serious question. What do you think Israel would do to kids caught spying or something?
Why not take a look (if your stomach can handle it).
This is the truth can you handle it? Or are you going to blame someone else?
Don't tell me you care about some arabs on the other side of the world..you dont.
http://www.counterpunch.org/cook06172009.html
All in a Day's Work for the IDF
Beating and Torturing Children
By JONATHAN COOK
Nazareth.
The rights of Palestinian children are routinely violated by Israel’s security forces, according to a new report that says beatings and torture are common. In addition, hundreds of Palestinian minors are prosecuted by Israel each year without a proper trial and are denied family visits.
The findings by Defence for Children International (DCI) come in the wake of revelations from Israeli soldiers and senior commanders that it is “normal procedure” in the West Bank to terrorise Palestinian civilians, including children.
Col Itai Virob, commander of the Kfir Brigade, disclosed last month that to accomplish a mission, “aggressiveness towards every one of the residents in the village is common”. Questioning included slaps, beatings and kickings, he said.
As a result, Gabi Ashkenazi, the head of the armed services, was forced to appear before the Israeli parliament to disavow the behaviour of his soldiers. Beatings were “absolutely prohibited”, he told legislators.
Col Virob made his remarks during court testimony in defence of two soldiers, including his deputy commander, who are accused of beating Palestinians in the village of Qaddum, close to Nablus. One told the court that “soldiers are educated towards aggression in the IDF [army]”.
Col Virob appeared to confirm his observation, saying it was policy to “disturb the balance” of village life during missions and that the vast majority of assaults were “against uninvolved people”.
Blah blah blah
Listen Dash - unless you have a reputable source, and not some guys doing a 'blog' and quoting two words of a UN statement, then save your breath and go find something productive to do. Anyone can google 'Israel child abuse' or some crap and find an extremest who wrote something. When CNN, NY Times, etc. publish something, I'll listen.
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Did anyone ask you about Israel? No. Now shut up and go start your own thread if you want to talk about that.Dash-Ate wrote:A serious question. What do you think Israel would do to kids caught spying or something?
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I heard it was actually an RCMP officer and they are trying to cover it up.
Going for the deck at corner
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Re: Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spy
I would be very careful about assumptions and jumping to conclusions.
This is war, nasty things happen on both sides, intentional, and not. Question: How many children's deaths do you think NATO/ISAF are responsible for? Answer: A great many, but the mainstream media goes to great lengths to avoid reporting it. I have unfortunately seen it first hand.
Here is just one of countless Afghan children who's lives are ended or ruined by this war. Most of these posts I'm not going to bother responding to, but suffice it to say, things there are not what they seem. At least this child was the beneficiary of modern medical attention, unfortunately it hasn't done any good, nor should she have ever been in this situation.
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This is war, nasty things happen on both sides, intentional, and not. Question: How many children's deaths do you think NATO/ISAF are responsible for? Answer: A great many, but the mainstream media goes to great lengths to avoid reporting it. I have unfortunately seen it first hand.
Here is just one of countless Afghan children who's lives are ended or ruined by this war. Most of these posts I'm not going to bother responding to, but suffice it to say, things there are not what they seem. At least this child was the beneficiary of modern medical attention, unfortunately it hasn't done any good, nor should she have ever been in this situation.
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Peruse this...Question: How many children's deaths do you think NATO/ISAF are responsible for?
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/ta ... y/19511145
There is a major difference between what NATO does and the what the Taliban does. NATO tries like hell to avoid killing non-combatants, the Taliban targets non-combatants; put another way the Taliban carries out pre-meditated murder.The boy was reportedly kidnapped from his home, taken to a neighboring village in Helmand province and hanged in public from a tree after he was killed.
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Re: Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spy
mcrit wrote:
There is a major difference between what NATO does and the what the Taliban does. NATO tries like hell to avoid killing non-combatants, the Taliban targets non-combatants; put another way the Taliban carries out pre-meditated murder.
And you know this how? Listening to the news? To the Government? You don't know this at all, you just want/need to believe it.
The facts are that the Taliban kidnapping, torturing, blowing up or executing children, women, or civilians is deplorable. It is also deplorable what NATO does in this war; standing in a village that was wiped out by "dumb" bombs dropped by the ever-present B-52's circling over the country tends to drive that home, drone attacks that result in a myriad of civilian deaths is deplorable. How are these not "pre-meditated murder?" Maybe you should ask an Afghan or two that have lost numerous family members to these strikes? That NATO is responsible for 40% of civilian deaths is deplorable. That NATO and the Americans have propagated not one, but two wars in the last decade that has seen millions suffer is deplorable.
Whether you believe these wars are justified or not is here nor there, that this is a war which sees disgusting things happening on both sides is an inescapable fact, to think otherwise is to kid yourself.
stl
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A voice of reason.
Pay attention, kiddies, critical thinking can be learned.
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NO! The media and military would never lie to us!!!
Except for all them weapons of mass destruction they found in Iraq.
And how the 9/11 attackers were from Iraq and they came in through Canada.
Hey, wait a minute...
Except for all them weapons of mass destruction they found in Iraq.
And how the 9/11 attackers were from Iraq and they came in through Canada.
Hey, wait a minute...
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Re: Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spy
How about we stick to the original subject matter about the seven year old murdered by the gutless cowards instead of going off topic. There will be plenty of other opportunities to spew your bleeding heart, left wing anti-American anti-Israeli verbal diarrhea.
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So, you think NATO troops deliberately target civilians?And you know this how?
Premeditated, (as I'm sure you know but are choosing to ignore), means that you decide what outcome you want from an action before you start that action. The Taliban decided they wanted to kill that 7 year old, and they did; that is premeditated. A soldier that releases a weapon on what he thinks is a legit military target has no intention of hurting civilians. There is no premeditation.How are these not "pre-meditated murder?"
I take it that you want to capitulate to the Taliban and let them be. I tell you right now that that would be a step towards another dark age. You seem to believe that western big business and the Americans are bent on becoming hegemons. You are right. Where you fall down is that you don't see the same drive in radical Islam.
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This is honestly a waste of my time. I don't post on these topics much anymore but everyone once in a while one like this comes along that is so far off the rails that I feel some perverse need to try to lend some perspective and experience - once again I'm reminded it's not worth it. I'll stick to deleting spam topics...
This is like watching a bunch of kids trying to play a board game a couple of age groups too high, they see all the pieces, but just can't figure out how they go together. Its become painfully obvious that nobody here wants to learn from anyone else, and that the Misc Forum only serves as a venue to vent pent-up aviation agro after work. Too bad, carry on as I'm over it.
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This is like watching a bunch of kids trying to play a board game a couple of age groups too high, they see all the pieces, but just can't figure out how they go together. Its become painfully obvious that nobody here wants to learn from anyone else, and that the Misc Forum only serves as a venue to vent pent-up aviation agro after work. Too bad, carry on as I'm over it.
stl
Re: Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spy
STL: IMHO your attempts to equate NATO and the Taliban are simply bizarre.
Such an attitude reflects either incredible naivete or outrageous bias.
If you think that my holding this opinion makes me a "bad person", well, I guess I'll just have to live with that (shrug)
Such an attitude reflects either incredible naivete or outrageous bias.
If you think that my holding this opinion makes me a "bad person", well, I guess I'll just have to live with that (shrug)
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Some say this is why IRAN is a target...they're interfering with the CIA's drug business....afghanistan is the #1 opium country for 8 years now..say how long has the west been there? 8 years is it?
Iran on Narcotics Transport Corridor between Afghanistan and Western Europe
Police Seize Drug Cargo in Northern Iran
Global Research, June 10, 2010
Fars News Agency - 2010-06-08
TEHRAN - Iran's police squads seized a 150kg cargo of narcotics in an operation in the country's northern province of Golestan Monday night.
"Minoodasht's law enforcement police forces discovered 150 kg of illicit drugs in a police operation in the city," Golestan's police headquarters announced in a statement on Tuesday.
During the operation, carried out last night after month-long intelligence measures, a ring involved in drug-trafficking and dealing was disbanded and four people were arrested.
"During the operation, 150 kg of narcotics, including 123 kg of opium and 31 kg of hashish were discovered," the statement added.
Iran, which lies on a transit corridor between opium producing Afghanistan and drug dealers in Europe, has recently stepped up efforts in the campaign against narcotics and drug-dealers.
Of course, the Islamic Republic has already emerged as the leading country fighting drug trafficking after making 85 percent of the world's total opium seizures.
The statistical figures released by the UN also show that Iran ranks first among the world countries in preventing entry of drugs and decreasing demand for narcotics.
Each year, the government spends hundreds of millions of dollars erecting barriers along the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan and pumping resources into checkpoints.
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Iran on Narcotics Transport Corridor between Afghanistan and Western Europe
Police Seize Drug Cargo in Northern Iran
Global Research, June 10, 2010
Fars News Agency - 2010-06-08
TEHRAN - Iran's police squads seized a 150kg cargo of narcotics in an operation in the country's northern province of Golestan Monday night.
"Minoodasht's law enforcement police forces discovered 150 kg of illicit drugs in a police operation in the city," Golestan's police headquarters announced in a statement on Tuesday.
During the operation, carried out last night after month-long intelligence measures, a ring involved in drug-trafficking and dealing was disbanded and four people were arrested.
"During the operation, 150 kg of narcotics, including 123 kg of opium and 31 kg of hashish were discovered," the statement added.
Iran, which lies on a transit corridor between opium producing Afghanistan and drug dealers in Europe, has recently stepped up efforts in the campaign against narcotics and drug-dealers.
Of course, the Islamic Republic has already emerged as the leading country fighting drug trafficking after making 85 percent of the world's total opium seizures.
The statistical figures released by the UN also show that Iran ranks first among the world countries in preventing entry of drugs and decreasing demand for narcotics.
Each year, the government spends hundreds of millions of dollars erecting barriers along the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan and pumping resources into checkpoints.
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Hedley wrote:STL: IMHO your attempts to equate NATO and the Taliban are simply bizarre.
Such an attitude reflects either incredible naivete or outrageous bias.
If you think that my holding this opinion makes me a "bad person", well, I guess I'll just have to live with that (shrug)
Hedley,
This is my last post on the topic, but with all due respect, it is your last that is laughable in its "naivete" I'm afraid. You have not been there, you have little to no understanding of the situation there, nor its evolution, or its history - how could you? This, despite your hopes, does not make you "a bad person, what it makes you - and almost everyone else commenting on these threads or sitting at home in Canada - is wholly unqualified and ill-equipped to discuss it with any semblance of sense or accuracy. Edited to add: One would think that anyone with a true interest in this subject would be all over talking with someone who's been there on the ground, out in the country talking to locals, not sequestered in bases or compounds like the military or most contractors are? Unfortunately with a few exceptions, most around here don't want to.
Instead, most of you decide that your opinions are not only worth listening to, but worth ranting and raving about here on Avcanada, that my friend is truly naive. It is a cycle that repeats itself endlessly here. To draw you a really loose, and pre-coffee analogy, it would be like having a guy with a student pilot permit start telling you about the finer points of low-level aerobatic technique... I say a loose analogy because that person would have more of an idea about it than most here have about this particular topic.
You very obviously have no idea what war is like. I have been in a position to see it from both sides, not as a soldier for one side or the other, not as a biased media observer, but as a human being try to reconcile what is going on and watching countless lives destroyed on both sides. That you and several other of the usual suspects around here cannot see how much damage we are doing and how much damage is being done to our people in these wars is actually the only truly "bizarre" thing here. I have seen it up close and personal on both sides. It show me you have no idea what you're talking about. Mcrit or somebody asked about intent when it comes to civilian deaths... that says all I need to know - I think people watch too many movies.
If you're ever out West, you are more than welcome to come over and I'll show you a hard-drive packed full of images I cannot make public, and of interviews with military personnel that could put me in jail or subject me to heavy fines because they are all in violation of the embedded reporting contract I signed for parts of my time there. While we're at it, we could do a similar albeit smaller exercise with Haiti... but that's another subject.
So, over lunch, maybe, just maybe, you and the rest could sit down and realize that your opinions are based on precious little information - this does not make you stupid or "bad" people - it makes you uninformed. Then perhaps you might be willing to listen for a change instead of making like you've got it all figured out. I know I don't, and I've seen and heard, and experienced so much more than you can imagine in this theatre.
That's really all I have to say on the subject anymore, it's just not worth the bother in this medium trying to help people see more clearly, as I said above it's simply a place where people like to rant.
Enjoy your summer.
stl
Re: Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spy
STL, if you look back through human history you will see that all conflicts have been this way. The choice is simple; fight or submit to someone else's will. That's the way it is, and the way it's always going to be. If you sit down and think about it (as opposed to feel about it) you'll see I'm right.
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I'm just two girls short of a threesome.
Re: Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spy
I don't know if this true but...do ya really think the USA and the west is some big happy Charity who just "liberates" any old country?
U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan
By JAMES RISEN
WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.
The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.
An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and BlackBerrys.
The vast scale of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists. The Afghan government and President Hamid Karzai were recently briefed, American officials said.
While it could take many years to develop a mining industry, the potential is so great that officials and executives in the industry believe it could attract heavy investment even before mines are profitable, providing the possibility of jobs that could distract from generations of war.
“There is stunning potential here,” Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the United States Central Command, said in an interview on Saturday. “There are a lot of ifs, of course, but I think potentially it is hugely significant.”
The value of the newly discovered mineral deposits dwarfs the size of Afghanistan’s existing war-bedraggled economy, which is based largely on opium production and narcotics trafficking as well as aid from the United States and other industrialized countries. Afghanistan’s gross domestic product is only about $12 billion.
“This will become the backbone of the Afghan economy,” said Jalil Jumriany, an adviser to the Afghan minister of mines.
U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan
By JAMES RISEN
WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.
The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.
An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and BlackBerrys.
The vast scale of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists. The Afghan government and President Hamid Karzai were recently briefed, American officials said.
While it could take many years to develop a mining industry, the potential is so great that officials and executives in the industry believe it could attract heavy investment even before mines are profitable, providing the possibility of jobs that could distract from generations of war.
“There is stunning potential here,” Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the United States Central Command, said in an interview on Saturday. “There are a lot of ifs, of course, but I think potentially it is hugely significant.”
The value of the newly discovered mineral deposits dwarfs the size of Afghanistan’s existing war-bedraggled economy, which is based largely on opium production and narcotics trafficking as well as aid from the United States and other industrialized countries. Afghanistan’s gross domestic product is only about $12 billion.
“This will become the backbone of the Afghan economy,” said Jalil Jumriany, an adviser to the Afghan minister of mines.
That'll buff right out
Re: Taliban Execute Seven-Year Old Afghan Boy Accused of Spy
Do ya' really think the CHICOMs, Russians or the Taliban are either?Dash-Ate wrote:...do ya really think the USA and the west is some big happy Charity who just "liberates" any old country?
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I'm just two girls short of a threesome.
I'm just two girls short of a threesome.
