Originally posted by Gunthr
Maybe you are right, Gunslinger. I'm not sure. I am concerned for the idealogical kid who wants to go over there and "fix things" without any practical understanding of the circumstances. "Peace Activists" are targets. Nobody gives a ***** about peace activists over there.
That stuff only works in a democracy with TV cameras willing to cover it. Either way, they will be used, or killed. I don't have much hope that they will report truth without suffering severe trauma, which is likely. How long do you thing they can wonder around without getting .... ?
If they are a "christian" organization not very long. "Christians" are being persued everywhere it seems.....well maybe not everywhere but they are extremely dissliked in most "hotspots" that involve radical islam.
What these people don't understand is you cannot reason with extremest. You cannot appease them. You cannot try to understand them. You cannot deal with them. They want world domination were the only form of expression is done under the flag of islam. That's it.
The irony in all of this is that it's the leftist peacniks that push all this diversity crap apon everyone else yet this is what they are getting for their money.
There's also another angle to this that doesnt get said much. There's a rather large element in Iraq that is not bent on religious Ideology but rather are just plane criminal thugs. They may see a profit in this as they can maybe capture these people and sell them to the zealots for money or guns or whatever the trade. From what I've read it's these thugs that are doing alot of the kidnaping because it is profitable. If the only organization that wants to pay money for them is the radicals than so be it.
Rest assured there is no apeasing these guys. What's that saying about appeasment? "appeasment is like feeding alligators hoping you're the last one to get eaten"
edit: my post above contains a typo that I can't edit. I meant to say they take pains NOT to inflict colateral damage.
