Royal Marine says he only shot an injured Afghan insurgent because he thought they were already dead - Polidicks

[QUOTE=SgtCr4zyGunz;42702277]this kind of dehumanizing thinking is what causes war crimes in the first place.[/QUOTE] What do you wanna do run around smack every one with fucking flowers?

[QUOTE=Flem;42709314]What do you wanna do run around smack every one with fucking flowers?[/QUOTE] Don't forget the puppies..

[QUOTE=InvaderNouga;42709154]Are you implying that the Taliban's main cause is to be freedom fighters fighting the Americans whom invade their lands? [/QUOTE] yeah cool wikipedia zing dude except i didnt even talk about that at all, i said they come from the mujahideen. the taliban are not kill droids. they have their own reasons to fight and by forgetting that you perpetuate dehumanisation. [editline]31st October 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Flem;42709314]What do you wanna do run around smack every one with fucking flowers?[/QUOTE] unless you want to eradicate every single person eventually the people you were killing will become your allies.

[QUOTE=thisispain;42709324]yeah cool wikipedia zing dude except i didnt even talk about that at all, i said they come from the mujahideen. the taliban are not kill droids. they have their own reasons to fight and by forgetting that you perpetuate dehumanisation. [editline]31st October 2013[/editline] unless you want to eradicate every single person eventually the people you were killing will become your allies.[/QUOTE] The combatants of Afghanistan (no matter what their name is) will never consider doing anything other than try to kill our troops until every last one of ours is OUT of their country. They're just doing their thing..the thing they've been doing for hundreds of years now. I wouldn't expect them to do any different.

[QUOTE=thisispain;42709324]yeah cool wikipedia zing dude except i didnt even talk about that at all, i said they come from the mujahideen. the taliban are not kill droids. they have their own reasons to fight and by forgetting that you perpetuate dehumanisation. [editline]31st October 2013[/editline] unless you want to eradicate every single person eventually the people you were killing will become your allies.[/QUOTE] Yeah I never forgot their reason to fight which is to push their shitty misguided extreme view of Islam on the whole of Afghanistan (which is only a country in name; since most people don't even identify as "Afghan") The Taliban did have their heyday and what they did during that time says a lot of their motives now. They're still humans; just really shitty ones whom I wouldn't really mind if they went away permanently.

[QUOTE=thisispain;42709324]yeah cool wikipedia zing dude except i didnt even talk about that at all, i said they come from the mujahideen. the taliban are not kill droids. they have their own reasons to fight and by forgetting that you perpetuate dehumanisation.[/QUOTE] Mujahideen is not a group. Its a word for fighter, or anyone involved in a struggle. It's almost identical in meaning to jihad. It was just used to refer to anyone who took up arms against the soviet invaders during that period. The taliban was started by a former fighter, but it is in no way linked with "mujahideen" as evidenced by the fact most of the anti taliban groups (which have existed as long as the taliban have, well before any western involvement) are also populated by veterans of the soviet conflict. The taliban do have their own reasons for fighting, yeah, none of them particularly reasonable. Please dont start this shit again where people start likening the taliban to the insurgency in Iraq because its nothing alike.

i dont know what the point of that ramble was, but im not incorrect at all in saying that the taliban stemmed from the mujahideen. both were funded and trained by pakistan. if you want to get pedantic about mujahideen then the taliban isnt technically a group either, but a loose confederation of political allies in other to consolidate power.