How many more lives?
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This man is clearly a very broken individual in need of treatment. But he still murdered a great number of already, by accident of birth, unfortunate women and children. Their relatives aren't going to sympathise with him at all and it's probably knocked the whole coalition off what remained of the moral highground out there.
Nobody has won here and nobody can win, short of the locals being permitted to see him being beheaded on a football pitch. That's not going to happen.
What a tragedy this whole intervention/war/conflict is in terms of material progress at home and here (money spent), morality, international common understanding and acceptance of each other and - obviously - lives.
The history books will not be positive or polite about any of this mess.
Nobody has won here and nobody can win, short of the locals being permitted to see him being beheaded on a football pitch. That's not going to happen.
What a tragedy this whole intervention/war/conflict is in terms of material progress at home and here (money spent), morality, international common understanding and acceptance of each other and - obviously - lives.
The history books will not be positive or polite about any of this mess.
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Sent to me via email this morning, relevant, I think;
Capitalism akbar
After reading the headlines about the US soldier who shot up
Afghanistan civilians, I couldn't help noticing an irony. There is
all this clamor to try this guy quickly and execute him, never mind
his having suffered a traumatic brain injury.
Yet this Major Hasan, who shot up Fort Hood while screaming Allah
akbar, still hasn’t stood trial, and they are still debating whether
he was insane, even with the clear evidence regarding his motive:
slay as many infidels as possible.
So we have a guy in a war zone who cracks, and he must be executed immediately.
But this Muslim psychiatrist who was stateside in a nice safe
office all day murders 13, wounds 29 of our own guys, and they try to
argue the poor lad suffered post-traumatic stress syndrome, from
listening to real soldiers who had actual battle experience. Two and
a half years later, they still haven’t tried the murderous bastard.
Capitalism akbar
After reading the headlines about the US soldier who shot up
Afghanistan civilians, I couldn't help noticing an irony. There is
all this clamor to try this guy quickly and execute him, never mind
his having suffered a traumatic brain injury.
Yet this Major Hasan, who shot up Fort Hood while screaming Allah
akbar, still hasn’t stood trial, and they are still debating whether
he was insane, even with the clear evidence regarding his motive:
slay as many infidels as possible.
So we have a guy in a war zone who cracks, and he must be executed immediately.
But this Muslim psychiatrist who was stateside in a nice safe
office all day murders 13, wounds 29 of our own guys, and they try to
argue the poor lad suffered post-traumatic stress syndrome, from
listening to real soldiers who had actual battle experience. Two and
a half years later, they still haven’t tried the murderous bastard.
