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goodDonkey
I am totally disgusted by such actions. It is a truly wicked mind that could squirt acid in a little girl's face. I hope they are caught and punished. I hope they find out if this was a fundamentalist conspiracy to deprive girls of a valued education. If it is proven true then this is truly one of the worst acts of terrorism. I am not speaking about scale; obviously it directly only affected a few people. I am speaking of scope. It is meant to keep women down. It is designed to provide terror to those girls and women who would better themselves. It was brought about by cowards who could not accomplish their deeds by winning on a battlefield and instilling their ideas through victory.
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SuperLib
Ah, the "freedom fighters" finally get some media exposure as to who they really are. I'd venture a guess that the next article about a US air strike will still have comments about how regular Afghans run to the these people to support them.
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rjd_jr
Yet another shining example of how this current administration (but not for long thank GOD) made things in Afghanistan FUBAR. It was hard enough trying to stabilize a country that requires different tactics and strategies than Iraq. Now 7 years later the taliban are not only stronger than before, but is causing the U.S. to rethink it's strategies and actually have discussions with the taliban.
No end in sight.
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powderfinger
"No end in sight."
And from posters like you no criticism of the Taliban either...
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JoeBigs
The way you deal with this is to hunt the Taliban down and smoke them out of their fox holes. Only way to do that is to move our assets out of Iraq and into Afghanistan.
We need to end this sort of thing the right way!
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skipthesong
he way you deal with this is to hunt the Taliban down and smoke them out of their fox holes." I have always like the eye for an eye method. We should do the same to them once they are caught. I hope they don't recapture the country again.
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YangYong
Medieval mindsets tempt a reprisal of medieval proportions BUT no, to do as to them what they did to these innocent people is too easy. Instead find them and imprison them. Hold them deep inside a place that shows nothing of the wider world, not a tree, not a slither of sky, no color, smell or sound just cold blank concrete, water and bread.
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smithinjapan
skipthesong: The problem with the 'eye for an eye' method is that someone has to splash YOU in the face for splashing them in the face for splashing a kid in the face, which in turn will result in the person who splashed you in the face needing a splash in the face, and that person needing a splash in the face, ad nauseum. You see what I'm saying? An eye for an eye has NEVER worked well, and the proof of that is in the pudding (Iraq).
powderfinger: "And from posters like you no criticism of the Taliban either..."
No end in sight, and the crappy Taliban is getting even stronger thanks to Bush and Co., allowing the former to commit heinous crimes like this. There, that make you happy?
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tclh
Too many weeds in Afghanistan.All good gardeners know how to deal with weeds. Talibans behave like this and they want to talk to Pre.elect Obama who has highly educated wife and well educated daughters?
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Betzee
It doesn't say anyone died. Such attacks happen on a fairly regular basis in Cambodia, where the perpetrator is the wife of a wealthy man who has taken a beautiful young mistress. Prosecutions are rare and the perpetrators want the victim to be disfigured yet live, in order to bear the stigma of an illicit union.
It's probably the same here; the perpetrators want the victims to live as a reminder to other girls of the perils of getting an education. The inhumanity of such acts is unfathomable.
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skipthesong
smitty, yeah, but I usually live moment by moment. You are half right, but usually keep hitting the wimp and not the guy that fights back.
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Badsey
only the most liberal would condone such acts of terrorism.
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smithinjapan
skip: "You are half right, but usually keep hitting the wimp and not the guy that fights back."
I'm not really all that sure what you mean by this, but anyway.
As to your comment and my retort, I wasn't dissing you at all... just saying that's the problem with tit for tat and eye-for-an-eye styles of justice; by definition the person who meters out the justice also then deserves the same, and it leads to an endless cycle of violence. There are ways of 'fighting back' and doling out justice that do not need to involve violence.
Moderator: Readers, please keep your comments focused on Afghanistan.
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Helter_Skelter
This same Islamic brutality of throwing acid on women is also happening in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Gaza:
But the horrible attacks on these women are an indirect result of the reduction of women to the status of commodities in Islamic law. They are not seen as equal human beings with rights they were bound to respect, but as animals to be punished harshly if they get out of line.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022946.php
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powderfinger
"No end in sight, and the crappy Taliban is getting even stronger thanks to Bush and Co., allowing the former to commit heinous crimes like this. There, that make you happy?"
Bush and "company" allow religious fanatics to disfigure young helpless women?
Please elaborate for us, professor.
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powderfinger
"Fanatics on the Right that spread hate about Muslims just fuel the fire of the fundamentalist Muslims that are fanatics who commit the atrocities like squirting acid in a child's face."
Are you actually trying to say that literate Muslims in Afghanistan are driven to disfiguring young women of their faith because of what an American scholar writes about Islam, in English, thousands of miles away?
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goodDonkey
powderfinger
English Lesson
"Fanatics on the Right that spread hate about Muslims" can refer to any Fanatics on the Right anywhere in the world. The statement "just fuel the fire" does not mean that there is a direct correlation between any given statement of hate and any given action. You seem to have forgotten, RR, that you guys are the ones making universal statements that are confused causal relationships. I will also spell it out in English that just because I say hate fuels the fire it is not the only thing terrorist Muslims rely on to spread their own version of hate. I did not state any dependence on the action or words of the fanatical right to be the only cause of terrorist hate.
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sensei258
I want to know what the assailants will say on judgment day..."Lord, we did this for you", that "aint gonna fly".
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presto345
Me too. I think Mohammad and Allah will prove to be less tolerant of their actions then the extremists think. They - the latter - will receive a short lecture about tolerance for their fellow (wo)men and will then be severely punished.
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skipthesong
smitty, in a place like Afghanistan, you couldn't possibly be expecting the police. No, this idiots need to feel what those girls have felt.
Of course, we, I will forget about this until we are struck with the news again, but god forbid if someone ever did that to my kid, or even yours'. I wouldn't even call the cops.
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skipthesong
gooddonkey, I don't know anything about that jihadwatch, but I do know CAIR very well. I haven't seem them making any type of attempt in trying to resolve the problem but I do see them griping a lot.
Even on the street level, I haven't seen them even remotely stating anything of concern or asking its members to be tolerant. Perhaps that Jihadwatch and Cair are two of the same.
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powderfinger
"Perhaps that Jihadwatch and Cair are two of the same."
The difference is Jihadwatch will denounce the disfiguring of innocent young Afghan girls in the name of Islam.
CAIR won't.
Afghanistan is not the only Muslim country where corrosive acid is thrown into the faces of girls, women, wives and sisters.
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Betzee
When our policy is driven by a belief in "the transformative power of liberty" we lack the means to address such barbaric acts. We should probably create realistic goals such as assisting Afghanistan to develop along the lines of its Islamic Central Asian neighbors Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, secular dictatorships with mixed records of promoting economic development, but where these kinds of attacks generally don't happen.
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Betzee
One of the great ironies of the contemporary world is that it's the former Soviet Republics such as "the Stans" and Azerbaijan where modernity has taken root within an Islamic culture.
Although the Soviets did not invade Afghanistan to secularize it, clearly that's what they intended to do. And the dominant Pashtun were threatened by the prospect of female education just as they are now.
Washington, only able to see the situation through the prism of Cold War geopolitics, backed groups like the Taliban which were resisting the imposition of Soviet rule for exactly the same reasons they are carrying out these attacks.
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bebert
Everyone is missing the point, which is that the insurgents are willing to use abominable measures to terrify the Afghan population into submission. The worse the war goes, the less willing the locals will be to stick their necks out to support the fickle Western forces that are trying -weakly- to rebuild the country in a modern, Western mold.
More boots on the ground is not going to accomplish much more than they did in Vietnam. What is needed is a massive intelligence push which will allow the Western forces to act more effectively and decisively. For example, identifying Taliban-friendly Pakistani intelligence agents and politicians so that their families can be abducted and/or assassinated. Unfortunately, no Western intelligence has the resources -especially the language skills- to support such counter-terrorism in the region.
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Helter_Skelter
This practice of throwing acid isn't limited to Afghanistan but occurs in other parts of the Islamic world as well.
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