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Regarding the hospital: I just noted that you jump conclusions on this issue even while investigation has not been finished yet. You just hope or want to believ
by DominikR 11y ago
Regarding the hospital: I just noted that you jump conclusions on this issue even while investigation has not been finished yet. You just hope or want to believe that the US military didn't bomb the structure on purpose.
> I find it hard to believe that you can't understand why I'd think killing a bunch of Talibani is great for the world.
Look, we all reject the goals of the Taliban, I think we're here on the same page. But the problem I have with what you are saying is this:
Military campaigns usually have political or economic goals. The US declared their war on terror as the political goal when they started the military campaign in Afghanistan. Later they added building a democracy as a political goal in Afghanistan.
For this they had to undermine their opponents ability to fight their political goals and in the process they destroyed military infrastructure, weapon caches, communication and of course people were killed.
Killing is part of operations in war, but not the main strategy or goal. Whenever it is, you'll usually see genocide, ethnic cleansing and the likes.
Like the Jihadists raging in Syria right now. They are killing the "unbelievers" right now for a (in their distorted view) better world. And once you are killing for a better world, why not celebrate the act of killing by inventing new cruel ways of killing and even filming it? (like ISIS does)
I can't read the US presidents mind, but I'm absolutely sure that he would reject your line of thinking for the exact same reasons. He probably thinks about it as a way to undermine the terrorists capabilities of achieving their harmful goals. I for one reject the means he is using to achieve HIS goals, but I do not believe that he is a crazy person believing in killing for a better world!