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>Are we the baddies? ISIS took civilians as sex slaves, sold them internally and _bragged about it_, so most assuredly no. They threw people suspected of being
by tomjen3 5y ago
>Are we the baddies?
ISIS took civilians as sex slaves, sold them internally and _bragged about it_, so most assuredly no. They threw people suspected of being homosexual of roofs, they killed suspected traitors by drowning them in an iron cage and, lets not forget, they cut the heads of westerners and bragged about it on TV.
Only difference between them and the Nazies was that they were only able to do this on a small scale and that the Nazis tried to cover up what they were doing.
When you go to war, there are likely going to be civilian casualties. We should understand every one of these cases, ensure that mistakes are prevented and if somebody didn't follow orders they are punished.
But if we are not willing to go to war over civilian casualties, those who don't care are going to rule everything.
- tata71 5y ago> if we are not willing to go to war over civilian casualties, those who don't care are going to rule everything. So...the people attacking your troops because of their civilian casualties — no issues, right?
- tomjen3 5y agoThat is frequently taken for granted, but I haven't seen actual evidence of it.
- tcmart14 5y agoAnd allies on the ground we worked with also had sex slaves..... [1] The issue here is, there are no saints. And to claim any side if being saintly is throwing up blinders. As a TLDR for the article. American soldier dismissed for incident involving an Afghan allie who spent money on "dancing boys" and had a young boy chained to a bed as a sex slave. Multiple incidents occured with other afghan militia allies, even on US Bases, US Military policy is essentially to ignore it. [1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/military-overlooked-sexual-abuse-by-afghan-allies-investigation-says/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/military-overlook...