17 Afghans beheaded in insurgent attack on party

[sawyerloggingon]

It's good to know who and what your enemy is. These "people" would spread this so called religion world wide if they had the opportunity. Sometime I think we should get out of Afghan and other times I think we should nuke the whole damn mid east and kill this cancer.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents beheaded 17 civilians in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan, apparently because they attended a dance party that flouted the extreme brand of Islam embraced by the militants, officials said Monday.
The killings, in a district where U.S. Marines have battled the Taliban for years, were a reminder of how much power the insurgent group still wields in the south — particularly as international forces draw down and hand areas over to Afghan forces.
The victims were part of a large group that had gathered late Sunday in Helmand province's Musa Qala district for a celebration involving music and dancing, said district government chief Neyamatullah Khan. He said the Taliban slaughtered them to show their disapproval of the event.


17 Afghans beheaded in insurgent attack on party - Yahoo! News

 

[Blue_State]

Can we please leave. This is horrible news, but after 10 years, hearing things like this makes it clear that we have not made the commitment to do it right, and we shouldn't.

 

[notquiteright]

These 'people', the Taliban, could givasheet about what the rest of the world does. You confuse al-Queera with the taliwhackers, like palefaces of the old west all them injuns look alike... :roll:

The Taliban only worry about their pile of mud bricks, have ever since the first time they kicked the British out. Oneday they might get fed up with invaders coming in and launch an attack outside their 'nation', but not today.

 

[VanceMack]

Perhaps my single biggest complaint against GWB...we 'won' the war against Afghanistan 10 years ago. It wasnt and isnt our job to transform 'stan or any other country. The Taliban were ousted, a government was elected. We should have given them 3 years to train up their own forces and dictate the course of their future. If they want to sit back and allow a bunch of backwards ass desert dwellers to turn the clock back on their country 5-6 hundred years...**** em...thats their business. If the citizens of 'stan want to accept it...great. If they want to fight it, even better. We should have been out at least 6 years ago.

 

[sawyerloggingon]

These 'people', the Taliban, could givasheet about what the rest of the world does. You confuse al-Queera with the taliwhackers, like palefaces of the old west all them injuns look alike... :roll:

The Taliban only worry about their pile of mud bricks, have ever since the first time they kicked the British out. Oneday they might get fed up with invaders coming in and launch an attack outside their 'nation', but not today.

The Taliban and al-Qaedea are different arms on the same octopus.

 

[Blue_State]

The Taliban and al-Qaedea are different arms on the same octopus.

Is that Octopus' name Islam? I know, religiously insensitive.

 

[notquiteright]

Sawyer-
I remember a poster showing a red octopus encircling the globe, each arm had a commie state on it.

BS then and BS now when you attempt to claim the Taliwhackers want to impose anything on us. They want us to stop imposing on them. They are a regional concern just as North Vietnam was in SE Asia. Not good folks, sheltered bad folks, but could care less what the outside world does as long as it stays outside.

Nuance isn't your strong suit... eace

 

[Sherman123]

These 'people', the Taliban, could givasheet about what the rest of the world does. You confuse al-Queera with the taliwhackers, like palefaces of the old west all them injuns look alike... :roll:

The Taliban only worry about their pile of mud bricks, have ever since the first time they kicked the British out. Oneday they might get fed up with invaders coming in and launch an attack outside their 'nation', but not today.

That isn't true. The Taliban was only in power for a short period of time but in that time it worked with regional allies to try and spread into Central Asia. How do you think the Islamic Movement for Uzbekistan linked up with the Taliban? They made encampments in Afghanistan and opened offices in Kabul and coordinated with the Taliban and al-Qaeda as they launched attacks into Uzbekistan and Tajikistan where they also took refuge. The Taliban or a similar government in Afghanistan has always been a specter to the rest of Central Asia, and there is no reason to believe this time is different.

 

[Jetboogieman]

other times I think we should nuke the whole damn mid east and kill this cancer.

Yes Sawyer.

Clearly the answer to this horrific incident is to commit genocide and kill 100's of millions of innocent people.

Your logic is simply impenetrable among other things.

 

[TheDemSocialist]

It's good to know who and what your enemy is.

I find it funny. These people were once our homies...

These "people" would spread this so called religion world wide if they had the opportunity.

Sure. Every religion seeks to dominate the world. But the key thing here is that they will never have that opportunity.

Sometime I think we should get out of Afghan and other times I think we should nuke the whole damn mid east and kill this cancer.

Your response to the death of 10 innocent people is to drop a nuke on the region and kill 5000times that many innocent people? Real logical....

 

[Samhain]

I find it funny. These people were once our homies...

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

 

[TheDemSocialist]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Yea... Howd that work out in the past 15 years?

 

[apdst]

Yes Sawyer.

Clearly the answer to this horrific incident is to commit genocide and kill 100's of millions of innocent people.

Your logic is simply impenetrable among other things.

Or, we could hunt down and kill the Tallis.

 

[Jetboogieman]

Or, we could hunt down and kill the Tallis.

Hmmm funny, I've been so confused as to what we've been doing for the last decade...

 

[apdst]

I find it funny. These people were once our homies...

Sure. Every religion seeks to dominate the world. But the key thing here is that they will never have that opportunity.


Your response to the death of 10 innocent people is to drop a nuke on the region and kill 5000times that many innocent people? Real logical....

We were never allied with Taliban. The Afghans we supported in tge Afghan-Soviet war were the Northern Alliance.

 

[apdst]

Hmmm funny, I've been so confused as to what we've been doing for the last decade...

Making a halfassed attempt.

 

[TheDemSocialist]

We were never allied with Taliban. The Afghans we supported in tge Afghan-Soviet war were the Northern Alliance.

The Northern Alliance was not created until 1996...

 

[Jetboogieman]

Making a halfassed attempt.

I don't know why you hate the military so much, they've been doing a great job killing Taliban :lol:

But anyway HERE WE GO.

apdst is gonna give us all a long winded speech about how we should "just do it like WW2" because that's his answer to any military problem.

Even though we're fighting a non governmental entity that can't surrender and doesn't care about civilian casualties and isn't even in most cases a unified entity...

You can kill as many people as you want apdst, but unless you're gonna follow Sawyers "logic" you can't kill them all.

 

[PirateMk1]

Can we please leave. This is horrible news, but after 10 years, hearing things like this makes it clear that we have not made the commitment to do it right, and we shouldn't.

I agree wholeheatedly, with one caveat. That would be to leave it as a self heating glow in the dark parking lot.:twisted:

 

[Sherman123]

I find it funny. These people were once our homies...

Sure. Every religion seeks to dominate the world. But the key thing here is that they will never have that opportunity.


Your response to the death of 10 innocent people is to drop a nuke on the region and kill 5000times that many innocent people? Real logical....

Those men in the picture are not the Taliban.

 

[apdst]

The Northern Alliance was not created until 1996...

Neither was the Taluban. However, the forces commanded by Ahmad Shah Massoud eventually became known as The Northern Alliance and those were the folks we helped during the war.

 

[TheDemSocialist]

Those men in the picture are not the Taliban.

Excuse me... It was the "Mujhadeen" who then became the Taliban...

 

[TheDemSocialist]

Neither was the Taluban. However, the forces commanded by Ahmad Shah Massoud eventually became known as The Northern Alliance and those were the folks we helped during the war.

Mujhadeen became the Taliban once they took power...

 

[apdst]

Excuse me... It was the "Mujhadeen" who then became the Taliban...

Um, you're excused. Not all of the Mujas formed the Taliban. The Muja force that were commanded by Massoud became the Northern Alliance.

 

[Sherman123]

Excuse me... It was the "Mujhadeen" who then became the Taliban...

The Taliban draws few direct links from the Mujhadeen as they are completely separate organizations, one being an umbrella group of dozens of organizations, the other being a primarily youth led Islamic scholars movement.