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Im-a-Ridah wrote: | chickenstrip wrote: |
And science gave us nuclear weapons, so get rid of all that shite.
To blame religion is silly. You could eradicate it completely and still you'd have mass murdering lunatics. People are the problem. We have to get rid of people |
Science has benefits, religion doesn't. Religion has been the cause of many, if not most wars and massacres, with Islam being the worst offender in modern times by a long way. People will point out that the Church of England is totally non-violent and mostly socially positive, but it has also rewritten (by ignoring) much of the Bible to make this happen. |
Well, the Soviet Union and China got rid of religion. Didn't stop the massacre of millions, did it?
The Catholic church was actually a big part of what brought the Soviet Union down, with the backing for the trade unionist movement in Poland and the visits of the pope. The communists in both Poland and Russia did not know how to handle it, since the Polish people gave greater allegiance to the Catholic Church than they did to the communist system, and in the end it was a part of what eroded that system's legitimacy.
It isn't religion per se that causes problems, but the ways in which people interpret it, and the power it has often had within state systems, but I would rather live under a system that takes its morals from English Protestantism than communism, which has no morals.
Religion has been a huge part of where we are now in the West - well, up until the manifestation of these ridiculous ideas of identity politics, culture wars etc. These are the people that most need some kind of guiding principles to hold onto. Where is it going to come from? Science? Sorry, but science has no morals either. Science just is. Humans cannot live by science alone. It tells us what is, but does nothing to tell us how to live.
There are many things that, when taken to extremes, can cause massive problems for societies. The wisdom is in how to moderate them. Once you start generalising and talking about total eradication of huge parts of a culture, you're likely going to make things far worse in the long run, unless you have something pretty damn good to replace it. Liberalism? Not doing much for us right now, is it?
I don't follow any religion, nor am I inclined to. But I know where my morals originated, and it wasn't in science or politics.
I also don't have a problem with the modification of religions to suit new times, something that has always happened throughout history, as long as it is done thoughtfully so that it doesn't radically disrupt the societies among which it exists. It should be just one more part of a culture available for those who find use for it, and there is no doubt that many do, in perfectly peaceful fashion. Although religion is not something I practice, I would not take it away from such people that do. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Kawasaki Jimbo wrote: | but I can’t otherwise understand why the superior Afghan army chose not to fight. |
Its not a real army. Paper at best.
Quote: | First, there was widespread corruption in Afghanistan’s defence and interior ministries where funds, ammunition and food deliveries were stolen before reaching the soldiers on the ground. The ammunition and other equipment were sold on the black market, eventually ending up in the Taliban’s hands.
Furthermore, some commanders embezzled money by submitting fund requests for the salaries of “ghost soldiers” – i.e. soldiers who had not actually signed up for the military. As this was happening, ANDSF personnel were kept unpaid and retained on duty without permission to leave and see their families for months.
Unsurprisingly, the ANDSF had one of the highest desertion and casualty rates in the world. According to one estimate, the ANDSF’s per month attrition rate was 5,000 while the recruitment rate was 300 to 500.
Second, the embezzlement and corruption undermined morale within the ranks of the army. The integrity of senior leadership is pivotal in military affairs to win the troops’ respect and loyalty. For unpaid soldiers, the lavish lifestyles of their commanders were often too much to swallow. Hence, instead of fighting and dying, they preferred to save their lives by surrendering to the Taliban under its amnesty offers.
Third, there was also no ideological cohesion within the army or a sense of national duty and belonging. In fact, there was significant mistrust towards the country’s political leadership. No Afghan soldier was ready to fight and die to defend President Ashraf Ghani or the government. Conspiracy theories about a secret deal between the Afghan government and the Taliban were rife among Afghan troops. This environment of doubt and suspicion further undermined Afghan soldiers’ resolve to resist the advance of the ideologically cohesive Taliban, whose fighters were driven by a desire to establish an Islamic emirate and drive out foreign troops they saw as occupiers. |
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Theres a big element of India V Pakistan in Afghanistan. Pakistan views Afghanistan as a bolt hole backstop kind of territory and the price for that an is supporting the Taliban and Afghan Jihadis in general. Check this extract from an intelligence briefing to Hilarious Clinton.
The Pakistani military top brass were long convinced that they could control the militants they have nurtured. In a taped
conversation between President Pervez Musharraf and Muhammad Aziz Khan, his chief of general staff, that India
released in 1999, Aziz said the army had the jihadis by their "tooti" (balls). Yet the Islamists have increasingly followed
their own agendas, sending suicide bombers out against not just Pakistan's religious minorities and political leaders, but
even the IS! headquarters. Nonetheless, many in the army still believe the jihadis are a more practical defence against
Indian hegemony than nuclear weapons. For them, supporting Islamist groups is not an ideological or religious whim, so much as a practical and patriotic imperative - a vital survival strategy for a Pakistani state.
The army and ISI continued this duplicitous and risky policy after 11 September 2001 despite Musharrafs public
promises to the contrary. The speed with which the US lost interest in Afghanistan after its invasion and embarked on
plans to invade Iraq convinced the Pakistani army that the Washington had no long-term commitment to Karzai's
regime. This led to the generals keeping the Taliban in reserve, to be used to reinstal a pro-Pakistani regime in Kabul
once the American gaze had turned elsewhere.
So it was that the .ISI gave refuge to the leadership of the Taliban after it fled from Afghanistan in 2001.
Mullah
Mohammed Omar was kept in an IS! safehouse in Quetta; his militia was lodged in the sprawling suburb of
Pashtunabad. There, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar presided over the Taliban military committee and war chest.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hizb-e-lslami, was lured back from exile in Iran and allowed to operate freely
outside Peshawar, while Jalaluddin Haqqani, one of the most violent Taliban commanders, was given sanctuary in North
Waziristan. Other groups were despatched to safehouses in Balochistan.
By 2004, the US had filmed Pakistani army trucks delivering Taliban fighters at the Afghan border and recovering them
a few days later; wireless monitoring at the US base at Bagram picked up Taliban commanders arranging with Pakistani
army officers at the border for safe passage as they came in and out of Afghanistan. Western intelligence agencies
concluded that the ISI was running a full training programme for the Afghan Taliban, turning a blind eye as they raised
funds in the Gulf and allowing them to import materiel, mainly via Dubai. By 2005 the Taliban, with covert Pakistani
support, were launching a full-scale assault on Nato troops in Afghanistan and being given covering fire as they returned to their bases in Pakistan.
At the same time, Taliban attacks on Indian interests in Afghanistan intensified, beginning the process of turning the Afghan conflict, like that in Kashmir, into what it is today: an lndo-Pak proxy war.
Full copy here https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/2000
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It seems Pakistan is second only to Iran for Western hate.
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Looks a complete mess over there, some interesting footage on this YouTube channel:
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MCN wrote: |
Our dilemma now is the states who see no purpose to exist in this earth dimension and dream to meet their maker in the forever after life.
Our job is to keep a firm foot on the heads of those kunts lest they get a breath of air. |
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Quote: | These days you can deliver a cruise missile to a leader's front door |
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I really do not understand why we put ourselves in a position to be the scapegoats all the time.
Sheffield hotel fall: Boy who died was Afghan refugee.
Now don't get me wrong, it's very sad but we gave refuge to this family. Put them up in a hotel and now are saying that this hotel wasn't suitable accommodation.
Is it not just a little feasible to expect the mother to take responsibility for looking after her kids rather than immediately decide that it's the accommodation being unsuitable and we must rehouse the refugees?
"We don't know the details of the incident but it is imperative that families who come from Afghanistan are given all the support they need and housed in appropriate accommodation. They are vulnerable and often very traumatised."
If you don't know the details, then wait until you do rather than just blaming the accommodation.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 2 years, 252 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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