Quit targeting us, or I’ll cripple this child.
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — A Taliban commander in northwest Pakistan has announced a ban on polio vaccines for children as long as the United States continues its campaign of drone strikes in the region, according to a statement by the Taliban. “Polio drops will be banned in North Waziristan until the drones strikes are stopped … Almost every resident of North Waziristan has become a mental patient because of the drone strikes, which are worse than polio … On one hand, the U.S. spends millions of dollars to eliminate polio, while on the other hand it kills hundreds with the help of its slave, Pakistan.”
One way of assessing the relative morality of military forces:
do they endeavor to protect the innocent, or do they use them as shields?
Gee, I wonder which would be the better outcome for these children?
• The US quits targeting the Taliban.
• The Taliban quits slaughtering innocent people and subjugating the survivors.
(What? Yeah, I know this is old-hat and a point bordering on banality; but it’s still an important one to make from time to time, if one is at all interested in the distinction between barbarity and civilization.)
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At this weekend’s Fremont* solstice Parade The commie VFP marched with their 8×6 Peace flags (US with the stars replace by a peace sign) to uproarious cheers. I bring this up to say that these people
wouldare now blaming us for any child who becomes sick* Olympia north…
Obama will keep up the attacks in spite of this claim from the taliban.
The only thing I can say to that is imagine if Bush did the same thing.
Storm clouds are brewing…. The middle east has always been a powder keg, but now those kegs are sweating. Dangerous times.
*those of you familiar with storing out of date boomers understand*
Yea Wollf and I hear some matches in the shape of two Russian war ships are on the way.
Yup, I have a nutty niece who is posting every frigging day about Prophesy, and End Times…… I don’t go there, but I do worry a bit, thus my Family preparations……. Crap I hate our self appointed Overlords.
…errrr….how about we pull our guys out and call it a day?…..I know it will grate a lot of people the wrong way, but I don’t give a flip for those people over there…..$10 billion a month, at least, just for Afghanistan…..frikkin outrageous….
…..why don’t the rich ass Saudi’s pony up, eh?….we’re frikkin chumps….
So we can use Polio as a biological agent against islamics a generation from now?
Kewl.
So, let me understand:
- it’s the polio vaccine’s fault that the people are flaming idiots
- NOT the inbreeding of generations marrying their cousins
- or the weekly listening to anti-Semitic, over-the-top BS in their mosques
- nor the racist, sexist, anti-everything after the Age of Muhammed “thinking”
O–O–Kay.