Well,..seems most people are looking at all this with the perspective of how we interact. I saw part of a documentary this morning that was an interview with a captured Taliban person. Went something like this (for the sake of my fingers I = Interviwer and R = Respondent);
I: If you were not captured, how would this interview be different?
R: I would kill you.
(In the background are a number of other captured Talibans and they are laughing at this)
I: Why?
R: Because you are American.
I: Do you feel that way about others?
R: No, it is our religious duty.
I: What about children?
R: If they are American and we are commanded by our holy leaders, then they shall die.
I: So age is not an issue,.you just have to be American?
R: Yes.
I: Would you strap a bomb to yourself and walk into a classroom of 5 year old Americans and detonate it?
R: Yes. This is our way. Americans are the great satan of this world. We will not know peace until you are all dead.
I: And you teach your children this?
R: Yes, as my father taught me.
(Again, the backgound Talibans are cheering and laughing)
At this point the reviewer states, "That is a bit of a show stopper, I really cannot think of a way to respond to that".
This was a freelance gentleman, who recorded this over a year ago. No one was interested in the documentary until the the recent events unfolded.
My point being, you cannot sit back and look at this situation from the perspective you may have been raised with. To win this, we have to first understand the enemy. In this documentary it is quite apparent they have every intention of killing Americans in any way they can, even by killing themselves in the process. Thier children are being taught this from day one.
we, in most of the free world, see killing children as intolerable, yet these children of the Taliban will grow up to be the next mass killers.
Our ethics and morality will get in our way of doing the most unthinkable thing that must be done.
This will be our downfall. I see the very symptoms of it on this board already.
Am I proposing genocide? No, I am not proposing anything, but to take a look inside and see if you have the stomach for what must be done.
Some would say, "By killing them in this manner, you lower yourself to thier level". Well, guess what? If we do not get to thier level they will kill us.
No matter what I say, or what others say, there is a task at hand. One that is not going to be pretty. One that is not going to be done for years. All we need to know is, can we do it? Can we commit to what may be the bloodiest, ugliest war ever fought on this planet?
It may not be as bad as I make it sound, but that is the question to be answered.
My vote? Go for it.
