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Casualties of war

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26 Jun

Well it appears that the Taliban is more than willing to sacrifice civilian lives as part of their ongoing fight against coalition forces.

"When the air strikes came, we did not feel pain because we know that when we start jihad we have to accept that our women, our daughters and children, may be killed in the fight," Mahmoud said.

 

In fact one Taliban leader even says it is the Taliban fighter’s duty to go be among civilians so they die too.

 

"When Talebs are part of that community and live amongst the people, when the Americans arrive, they have to go the house where their brother is, where their family is, so when (Americans] come to our house to kill us, they will kill our families, too."

news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Taleban-chief-says-fighters-must.5364658.jp

 

And yet GEN McChrystal is now ordering our forces to walk away from the a battle when the enemy moves to be in close proximity of civilians. I think we can give the enemy the point in this match.

 

I will be blogging more about GEN McChrystal’s decision soon.

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