I have no problems with what is being done by Red Cross or whatever they call themselves in that region. But IMHO they chose a cross as their symbol - they should stick with it and let others choose to refuse their services and assistance out of their own close-mindedness. If they didn't want their symbol to offend people they should have chosen something like a puppy. 
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Kandahar's local government as criticizing the first aid training, saying the Taliban did "not deserve to be treated like humans."
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I disagree. They are humans - humans with evil idealogies that need to be destroyed - but they are humans. As soon as we treat them as less than human we take 1 step back from our own humanity.
I have always seen our warriors and soldiers as instruments of justice - preventing basic first aid supplies and training is not just. I never saw the war there as an effort to induce suffering - I have seen it as an effort to destroy an evil regime and give those who hold their extremist ideals some much needed killing.
My $.02...
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Last edited by PedOncoDoc; 05-27-2010 at 05:37.
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