Does any American of any faith have any moral qualms with killing 250 Taliban at a funeral?

Question

Or would you rather fight them one or two at a time later on?

I was watching Anderson Cooper 360 on the 11th, and it showed american service men and women on a firebase near the Paki border having a memorial service for 9/11 when they took incoming. Then yesterday I see on the same program that had the chance to engage 250 Taliban fighters who were attending a funeral for a fighter who was killed earlier in the day fighting coalition troops. do you think we should have killed those fighters then and there to prevent them from fighting us later on? if no, why?

And trust me, they could have waited for the group to leave the cemetary and engaged trucks on the road and large groups walking.

I wasnt asking for social comentary, or your expertiese on afghanistan. Having spent a year deployed in the paktika provence in the Afghan/Pakistani borderlands I know all about it. thanks. I just want to know if anyone has any moral qualms with killing taliban fighters while there at a funeral.

Answer 1

Yes. We should have left that funeral as a smoldering crater in the earth. We could have wiped all 250 of them out without a single one of our troops injured in the process.

Answer 2

I think war is the ultimate human failure. I think killing only begets more killing. I think many empires have thought to tame Afghanistan and failed and we will be no different in the end. That's not our place. It's their place. Just as the only way a foreign invader would tame America is kill every last American, the only way to tame Afghanistan is to kill every last Afghan. We won't do it, they know it, so they fight on, knowing evenutally we'll tire of watching our troops die in a foreign land for no good reason. Striking against Al Qaeda was one thing. Propping up our puppet Kharzai is another. The Soviets had their puppet there too. Eventually they left and so will we.

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."
Rudyard Kipling

Answer 3

I believe that the war will be justified when there is 3000 of their people killed. They had no reason to kill our people on 9/11, and killing the same amount of people will justify the death of our innocent people.
Did you mourn on 9/11? Did you remember the lost on 9/11? Did you cry when you saw the world trade center falling, and think, what if my family member was inside?

Answer 4

First of all, war is ugly business. When you try and make it into a nice affair, you're going to lose. Those who have the resolve to do what it takes, no matter how ugly, will win the war.

There are no rules, and there is no benefit in losing the war because you were trying to be honorable.

Answer 5

Personally I would have killed them but the US has this silly rule about bombing cemetaries

Answer 6

Do you saw Mulla Omar in the picture ? If he is still alive.

Next time don't go close to tall buildings in your neighborhood. There are more flights and cutters available.

Answer 7

I believe in leading by example.

Answer 8

All is fair in love and war

Bomb em