Thread:Comments:ARM: 2010 worst year for Afghanistan since US invasion/Comments from feedback form - "Gee Whizz...war is violent - w..."/reply (6)

I completely agree, casualties of innocent people is horrendous, no one is denying that. What I am denying is that we should fold just because the Taliban is getting more recruits through what I call subjective interpretation of events. Maybe Rashid's father also farmed poppies that was feeding into the Talibans drug conglomerate and thus fueling their terrorist actions or maybe Rashid is a nationalist, who has now become radicalised. Who knows and quite frankly who cares. To have a practice of going around and asking the enemy why they are they enemy and then deciding to take them out or not is not rational and DEFFINATELY not recipricated. Nor would it ever be...

What would you call all those people, going about their daily lives, earning a living for their families in the World Trade Center? An Armed Militia?

We have guidelines and conventions, which are denied to us by the Taliban. Yes we toe the line sometimes, BUT we have regulatory bodies and the freedom to monitor, act on and speakout about such deviancy. The Taliban does not nor would they tolerate someone preaching against their cause in their organisation/society. THEY BOMBED DEOMCRATIC ELECTIONS, FOR GOODNESS SAKE!

WE both have a double standard...isn't that fun...