Going beyond the FACT it is the United States attack of Iraq that is the ROOT OF EVIL in the Middle East, there is no victory over ISIS, Taliban, or any of the terror factions by use of bullets.
One more point to emphasize is that Sunni have been fighting Shiite for thousands of years. How is it we expect to stop that fight?
Maybe this is "snow flake" stuff to some, especially conservatives, but a part of battling terrorist evil is to win the hearts and minds of the people who can become terrorists in the future.
Anyone who has ever fought in a war knows THERE IS NO WINNER.
THERE IS NO WINNER IN THE WAR! In modern times there is no way to "win" a war.
ISIS and radical terrorist factions like the Taliban are insanely cruel and ugly, but what we do to eradicate these monsters must not leave future monsters behind.
"Freed Taliban hostage says captors raped his wife, authorized child's killing"
By Nicole Chavez and Keith Allen, CNN Updated 4:48 PM ET, Sat October 14, 2017
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/asia/taliban-family-freed-canada-boyle-speaks/
"(CNN)A Canadian man who was freed along with his family after five years in militant captivity in Afghanistan said his captors authorized the killing of one of his children and raped his wife."The stupidity and the evil of the Haqqani network's kidnapping of a pilgrim and his heavily pregnant wife engaged in helping ordinary villagers in Taliban-controlled regions of Afghanistan was eclipsed only by the stupidity and evil of authorizing the murder of my infant daughter, Martyr Boyle," Joshua Boyle told reporters upon his arrival Friday night at Toronto's Pearson International Airport."
Ugliness! Sick! Sick! Sick! Not religious or moral Muslims.
"Boyle did not say whether the militants killed a child, only that his captors were responsible for "authorizing the murder" of his infant daughter.
Sources close to the family said Boyle alluded to at least one forced abortion while in captivity.
Boyle said his wife was raped by a guard who was assisted by his superiors, and he asked Afghan authorities to bring them to justice."
The Sunni vs Shiite war will go on forever, and ISIS will be revived in one form or another by the children of Iraq and Syria.
A lesson we never learn is that wars lead to future wars, again, and again, and again. We never learn.
"Who Wins Wars?"
By David Sable 11/26/2012 05:44 pm ET Updated Jan 26, 2013
"Who wins wars?
More importantly — can a war, today, really be won?
In the “old days,” war was simple... populations were smaller, weapons were less effective for mass killing... so you fought and killed and then took over the population that remained. Rape and pillage were, of course, part of the deal.
In some instances, the subsuming of the population was a given — champions fought each other and winner took all.
More. Looking back, for example, there was definitely NO WINNER after bullets stopped in Viet Nam.
"if you look at the conflicts that still rage, they are for the most part civil warlike; that is, between people in the same territory, fighting, each believe in the same thing: religious (I speak to God and you don’t); ethnic (you are below me or simply old-fashioned, I’m running my country into the ground so I will take my population’s eye off of me and use one of the above to divert their attention while I divert all the money.)Neil Gaiman, in American Gods, had it right: “There’s never been a true war that wasn’t fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”
However, no matter how you look at it, there are no winners anymore. Look at Vietnam. The sheer loss of life on all sides, from the French days on, the money that could have been spent on human needs, the hatred and civil anguish, all wasted, all down the toilet for nothing — all the fears and predictions came to naught, and today Vietnam is a proud country with a growing future and a great office for me."
" . . . no answers — at least I don’t have any — although sadly I see and read so many who do. All I have are questions, and maybe questions are the best and only place to start...
What’s your view?"
What is your view? No war except to defend your family with an enemy at your doorstep is worth fighting. All war is DEATH!
The United States bombed innocent civilians when it attacked Iraq. THAT atc, and many killings that followed were WAR CRIMES.
18 U.S. Code § 2441 - War crimes
US Code
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§â€¯2441.
War crimes
"(a)Offense.—Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.
(b)Circumstances.—The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are that the person committing such war crime or the victim of such war crime is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or a national of the United States (as defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act).
(c)Definition.—As used in this section the term “war crime” means any conduct—(1)defined as a grave breach in any of the international conventions signed at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party;
(2)prohibited by Article 23, 25, 27, or 28 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, signed 18 October 1907;
(3)which constitutes a grave breach of common Article 3 (as defined in subsection (d)) when committed in the context of and in association with an armed conflict not of an international character; or
(4)of a person who, in relation to an armed conflict and contrary to the provisions of the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices as amended at Geneva on 3 May 1996 (Protocol II as amended on 3 May 1996), when the United States is a party to such Protocol, willfully kills or causes serious injury to civilians."
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2441
