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To: Stoat

I think what he may be hinting at is that not all people who fight for the Taliban are inhuman monsters. It’s a bit of a simplistic argument to make to suggest that. There were some people who fought for the Nazis who were decent human beings, even if the side they were on was the wrong one....


15 posted on 08/25/2008 11:03:08 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
I think what he may be hinting at is that not all people who fight for the Taliban are inhuman monsters. It’s a bit of a simplistic argument to make to suggest that. There were some people who fought for the Nazis who were decent human beings, even if the side they were on was the wrong one....

Undoubtedly she is trying, in a breathtakingly inarticulate way, to make such a statement but I question the validity of it nonetheless.  It's true that in WW2, particularly toward the end of the war, any male who could walk and carry a gun was drafted into the German army and forced to fight for the Fatherland, and those who resisted or attempted to escape were routinely executed, oftentimes by being hung from lamp posts to serve as a warning for others.  This was enforced by the entire (remaining) machinery of the State.  I haven't seen a comparable situation on the part of the Taliban, in that my understanding is that their active, frontline fighters are composed of willing true-believers.

16 posted on 08/25/2008 11:21:31 AM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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