Taliban cut off heads of 17 people for having music at party :-(

[Med911]

Re: Taliban cut off heads of 17 people for having music at party

@psyah

Peace Med911

No … collateral damage or pillaging of civilians or any form of hostile engagement with a populous of a territory who are not engaged in fighting is a spree of crimes of the greatest order. If the bombs and airstrikes are not used and opponents taken out only then this is the only type of war that is acceptable. War in fact is never acceptable, but if it is going to happen there have to be rules. So it is hypocritical to argue in favour of collateral damage (where children are killed) yet in the same breath condemn a group for using children to strike at the enemy army … Both are wrong, but I would the drone strikes killing women and children as well as possibily taking out an opponent is MORE wrong than a child who chooses to attack a military base of his enemy. But they are both wrong - admit it!

You ignore one essential difference here. One side ends up killing civilians unintentionally, the others do so willifully and without remorse. War is never desirable, but in the midst of this evil, one should not be so naive as to assume that no civilians will ever be killed. The US actively avoids civilian casualties where ever possible, while the Taliban actively attack civilians (Shia, barelvi mosques, mourners at janaza, their use of child suicide bombers). Im not arguing in favor of collateral damage, im only acknowledging it as a fact of war. Collateral might be a cold way of describing human casualties, but since when has war ever been pleasant…