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Did people all of a sudden lose the ability to read, or what? "It plain simply involves killing almost everyone in an area." No, not almost everyone. Only Tal
by fleddr 5y ago
Did people all of a sudden lose the ability to read, or what?
"It plain simply involves killing almost everyone in an area."
No, not almost everyone. Only Taliban. Which arguably is complex, but surely if the US would make full effort to infiltrate and map the network, such selective targeting would be possible.
"Cause your proposal is to plain kill them. You don't get to propose killing people and then saying someone else is cruel."
It gets even weirder, I guess. You know the very point of the Afghan military was to kill the Taliban, right? Together with the US backing them up, they managed to kill 52,000 Taliban and other opposition fighters. What exactly do you think happens in a war?
"Under Taliban, those people are alive. With your approach, they are all dead."
All? The Taliban is estimated to have a force some 50,000 strong, 100,000 tops if you include weak allies. That's 0.13% of the total population. So you're saying that the selective targeting of the Taliban, will also wipe out the other 99.87% of the population? Some 38 million people? Get the fuck out of here.
- watwut 5y agoKilling all life within 1km of any Taliban literally involves killing all people there. And it is not even Taliban hiding among civilians. It is them living with their parents in their village. > Together with the US backing them up, they managed to kill 52,000 Taliban and other opposition fighters. What exactly do you think happens in a war? Not every war is going on with goal of killing everyone in an area. So while civilians always die, what you propose has that extra step of being genocide. > The Taliban is estimated to have a force some 50,000 strong, 100,000 tops if you include weak allies. That's 0.13% of the total population. Yes, because your plan is to not just kill them, but to kill everyone around.
- fleddr 5y agoAre you drunk? I did not make the "killing all life" remark, it's by another commenter. I specifically said to target an exterminate the Taliban. "Not every war is going on with goal of killing everyone in an area. So while civilians always die, what you propose has that extra step of being genocide." No that is the exact opposite of what I propose! "Yes, because your plan is to not just kill them, but to kill everyone around." What!?