Powerful Question For Taliban Who Murdered The Aid Workers: "Is This The Best Way Of Serving God?"

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Run time: 01:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3uf8E1ZVeI   Posted on YouTube: August 08, 2010 By YouTube Member: AlJazeeraEnglish Views on YouTube: 47   Posted on DU: August 08, 2010 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 909

 
The bodies of 10 aid workers killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been flown into a hospital in the capital Kabul to confirm their identities.

Officials say they are trying to gather evidence from the bodies to verify the identity of the victims, which include one Briton, six Americans, two Germans and two Afghans.

Al Jazeera English's Clayton Swisher reports from Kabul.

I've been posting details of the victims and what they were doing to help Afghans here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4495235

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1. This would be a drop in the bucket if we were to get out of Afghanistan "now".

There would be wholesale slaughter and revenge killings. Actions have consequences and since we do need to exit there somehow and sometime we do need to give thought how to best do it. Yes, Afghan citizens are dying because we are there now, but many, many times more would die if we simply were to bug-out like so many seem to want us to do.

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2. The idiot in charge of this group gets some of the blame.

He was explicitly tossed out of Afghanistan by the Taliban in 2001. He comes back after we invade and push the Taliban out of Kabul, takes a group of do-gooders deep into the countryside, and gets the group whacked by the same Taliban who already kicked him out once before. I suggest that christian do-gooders already evicted once from a country by fundamentalists with guns not push their luck by parading around the same country after the foreigners have come in and killed a whole mess of these same fundamentalists. Most likely if the fundies run into you, you and everyone you are with are going to be dead people.

Did everyone in his group understand his personal history with the Taliban?

p.s. this is not a defense of murderous fundamentalist thugs.

[Turborama]

3. P.S. That was a defense of murderous fundamentalist thugs.You make it sound like they had it coming.

Almost as if they deserved it.

Someone who knows the area well explains how they try to avoid the dangers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0bfIYMPmhQ

Read about the people you are denigrating as "do gooders" and scale back your disgust: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4495235

That charity has been working to help Afghans for 44 years and they estimate they help 250,000 a year. Do the math on that.

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4. No it wasn't. It was acknowleging that people who climb into the bear cage at the zoo...

...should not be surprised when they get mauled. Especially if they've had tangles with the bear before.

No more, no less.

PB

[Turborama]

5. You need to read up on what they were actually doing before you make asinine analogies

like that.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4496458

The fact is that medical aid workers who were there to help Afghans were cold bloodily murdered by the Taliban.

Trying to make it sound like they "shouldn't be surprised" that they got murdered is tantamount to Taliban apologetics.

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6. Well, that makes all the difference. Medical aid from the West.

Naturally the Taliban should have been thrilled and given them passes and asked them to help with their cuts and scrapes and bullet wounds which I am sure the aid workers would have been glad to do.

WHAT ARROGANCE!!! We've come to help in all our goodness. All bow before us.

What are we? In kindergarten?

I'm on a list to be notified if my friend in Afghanistan is killed, maimed, or kidnapped. Her father and I hear first. There had to be two and no one else would accept the notification. You think that's non-standard for going into that region? A member of the Afghan legislature told her not to go, that they couldn't guarantee her safety even in Kabul.

People who routinely go in and out of that region know that if they get caught, they get killed. Some go because they are saints, just saints. But a whole lot of civilians are there because it gives life a jazzy kick they just don't feel back home.

BTW, how many of that 250,000 helped are still alive?

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7. "Naturally the Taliban should have been thrilled" What are you on about?

Sounds like even more sickening Taliban apologetics. Do what I have suggested upthread, follow the links and find out who they were and what they were actually doing there.

There's no "arrogance" about it, that particular medical charity has been working there giving much needed medical aid for 44 years. Heroically risking their lives to help people in desperate need. It's called altruism, maybe something that's alien to you.

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8. so do you mock her sacrifice of her time & risk of her safety with similar disdain?

Because, in your post, you seem to assume to know what makes "a whole lot of" people go and risk their lives... I didn't know you had psychic abilities to read a whole lot of people's intentions seeking a jazzy kick. Is a jazzy kick a psychological diagnosis? If so, is it perhaps they're just suffering an ICD-9 305.5?

I would believe people willing to put their lives at risk as aid workers (as opposed to people with weapons) are there, as a high majority, for all the right reasons.