Red Cross giving first aid lessons to taliban

[algie]

Someone else who has totally misunderstood the red cross. By your reasoning they also should be handing over British soldiers to local authorities as they are committing mass murder of innocent civilians, correct? The red cross is an international organization who don't take sides, it may seem wrong to you but they don't see the different between a British soldier being killed by the Taliban and a British soldier killing a member of the Taliban. Should the red cross have also been rounding up the nazis during world war 2 for fighting for what they believed in because it didn't agree with our views?

The Taliban are also not terrorists, they are not responsible for 9/11, 7/7 or anything else, they are bad people yes, they are responsible for a lot of deaths but that doesn't mean that they are terrorists.

So tell me then,what do you see the IRA as?

Who do you think gves the orders for someone to put on a suicide vest and blows themselves up in a busy market? Do you think the Taliban are just targeting US and British forces?

Are you telling me the Taliban don't have links with Al-Qaeda?

 

[Juan Albion]

they are however fighting against the democratically elected (however flimsy that democray) government in Afghanistan, so in my view they are terrorists.

Well, you could make a case to say that the allies went there to fight against what was, at the time, the recognized government of Afghanistan, in Afghanistan, and with no mandate from the Afghan people.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Yep - that's about the size of it.

PhilSussex-such a creative and imaginitive username.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

And can someone remind me what it is the British Army is doing in Afghanistan? Are the still looking for Osama?

 

[Philzo-93]

Im just going to be blunt to the point here:

Who gives a shit!? Honestly it's their choice and points to Hustpierpoint Seagull, in my honest opinion. I am completely for it, they're a non-partisan organisation, something that is very difficult to keep hold of.

And anyway, we can just shoot the fuckers (the taliban that is) with the Army....oh wait I forgot, we're doing that right now aren't we!?

 

[bhaexpress]

The point about the Red Cross is, as said by many here already, they are neutral. If they take sides by not treating both then they will become targets for the side they are not helping. That's the situation.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I don't know whose life has been more wasted here - me for the couple of pages I read, or those who bothered contributing to this thread over the course of yesterday.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

The point about the Red Cross is, as said by many here already, they are neutral. If they take sides by not treating both then they will become targets for the side they are not helping. That's the situation.

Absolutely. And not just in Afghanistan.

The Red Cross and Red Crescent movements do vital, life saving work throughout the world - often in situations where their reputation for neutrality is what allows them admission to situations of conflict. If they weren't there, no-one else would go.

Any sort of "campaign", whipped up by the western press (or any other factional interest group) to question the Red Cross's principle of neutrality undermines the Red Cross everywhere - and puts lives at risk everywhere that the Red Cross works.

Nato commanders in Afghanistan understand this. The fact that "some in the Afghan government" don't is an indictment of Karzai.

 

[coventrygull]

I think it was the US and British miltary that trained the Taliban in the first place.

 

[KneeOn]

yes, save lives so they can return to the frontline and carry on trying to kill our blokes , great , no big deal then

Thats exactly what the other side would say/are saying about us.

 

[Nappy thrower]

I think it was the US and British miltary that trained the Taliban in the first place.

That's where you got your new avatar from.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I think it was the US and British miltary that trained the Taliban in the first place.

You have a point here. I forgot about The Cold War. Bushy is looking even more stupid and ignorant now.

 

[coventrygull]

You have a point here. I forgot about The Cold War. Bushy is looking even more stupid and ignorant now.

I remember the taliban as the friends of democracy

 

[coventrygull]

http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2009/08/13/who-is-funding-the-afghan-taliban-you-dont-want-to-know/

God bless America

 

[Chicken Run]

The Taliban are responsible for the mass production of opium, spreading misery throughout the world in it's wake, let them die i say.

 

[daveinprague]

Yeah, like Opium production wasnt in full swing before the Taliban.
Get a grip.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Well done, Red Cross

 

[Dave the OAP]

The Taliban are responsible for the mass production of opium, spreading misery throughout the world in it's wake, let them die i say.

as we were in China?


I think this is a huge non story. my mate is in the army over there and one member of his patrol was shot and badly wounded. he was being stitched up on a table next to a local taliban fighter who was also in a bad way.

If he hasn't a problem with it and has some humanity,who faces it every day then who are we to judge?

 

[Monsieur Le Plonk]

I think this is a huge non story. my mate is in the army over there and one member of his patrol was shot and badly wounded. he was being stitched up on a table next to a local taliban fighter who was also in a bad way.

If he hasn't a problem with it and has some humanity,who faces it every day then who are we to judge?

Moral dilemma for the surgeon maybe. Do they get all our injured boys seen to first or is it first-come first-served? Wouldn't fancy being in the queue waiting for the doc to sew up someone who's landmine I just walked upon.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Moral dilemma for the surgeon maybe. Do they get all our injured boys seen to first or is it first-come first-served? Wouldn't fancy being in the queue waiting for the doc to sew up someone who's landmine I just walked upon.

possibly. there was something on the telly a while ago alluding to this same issue.