U.S. soldier kills Afghan civilians

[Reynolds357]

Let's get back to killing civilians..shall we?

There is no such thing as a civilian. If it feeds or finances a soldier, it is a soldier.

[Slug1]

The reason we're still there is because we no longer have the stomach to finish a war properly and SAVE more lives in the long run.

I agree!

Imagine God saying... "execute MY WRATH upon the evil doers" and man institutes ROE (Rules of Engagement)... God's saying, kill them all and the ROE stops us from doing that.

[Reynolds357]

I agree!

Imagine God saying... "bring MY WRATH to the evil doers" and man institutes ROE (Rules of Engagement)... God's saying, kill them all and the ROE stops us from doing that.

Quite true. General W.T. Sherman could have won Afghanistan and Iraq in a couple of months.

[Slug1]

Quite true. General W.T. Sherman could have won Afghanistan and Iraq in a couple of months.

With today's weapon capability, he'd do it in weeks, not months.

[ReigningKing]

So sad. I'm praying for the families of the lost.

[keck553]

So sad. I'm praying for the families of the lost.

Pray for their salvation while your at it.

[shepherdsword]

So sad. I'm praying for the families of the lost.

Finally, a voice of sanity! I agree with you in prayer.

[Karliah]

Because American soldiers don't normally go around massacring civilians, duh....

Yes they do. The whole Middle-Eastern intervention is American soldiers going around and massacring civilians. Like when the US blew up an entire factory of workers because they believed there were WOMD in there... turns out it was a toothbrush factory and they had just killed hundreds of innocent workers. Don't believe the propaganda we often see in our Western media.

[episkopos]

I think God is much more concerned about our domestic butchering of babies than He is over our actions in war.

At least you better hope so. (Look Lord I only butchered those who were already born...what what?..okay maybe I butchered pregnant women too!!!///but at least I'm not as bad as abortionists...)

Good luck to you

[episkopos]

Pray for their salvation while your at it.

They will never look to Christ for salvation...the message is that Jesus loves rich Westerners and is callous towards the poor backwards people. This is our true witness to the world. All that matters is that we remain safe...who cares for the Afghans anyway? They are expendable. They are our targets.

[Reynolds357]

At least you better hope so. (Look Lord I only butchered those who were already born...what what?..okay maybe I butchered pregnant women too!!!///but at least I'm not as bad as abortionists...)

Good luck to you

There is no question that the unborn is innocent. Enemy combatants in war zones? Not so innocent. "Civilians" that are casualties of war? You might want to look back at "the big one" (WWII) and look how we finally won that one. We began surgically striking military and industrial targets only. We were losing. England finally got us talked into carpet bombing the population centers and in short fashion Nazi Germany fell to its knees. Couple A bombs in very populous cities in Japan; surrender came almost instantly.

[episkopos]

There is no question that the unborn is innocent. Enemy combatants in war zones? Not so innocent. "Civilians" that are casualties of war? You might want to look back at "the big one" (WWII) and look how we finally won that one. We began surgically striking military and industrial targets only. We were losing. England finally got us talked into carpet bombing the population centers and in short fashion Nazi Germany fell to its knees. Couple A bombs in very populous cities in Japan; surrender came almost instantly.

You were in the Red army?

A bigger dog eats the smaller dog....but dogs do not inherit eternal life.

The hounds of war are not called faith hope and love. There is a profound blindness in your reasoning.

Carnal reasoning is circular...and hypocritical. The reason that obliterating cities works (while killing pregnant women thus the unborn) is that it is brutality that changes the flesh.

But we are called to be transformed in the inward man...not terrify the flesh. Terror victims are not saved through their terror. Terror is another form of death.

You cannot be a minister of death and proclaim Christ. You are with the terrorists.

[Reynolds357]

You were in the Red army?

A bigger dog eats the smaller dog....but dogs do not inherit eternal life.

The hounds of war are not called faith hope and love. There is a profound blindness in your reasoning.

Carnal reasoning is circular...and hypocritical. The reason that obliterating cities works (while killing pregnant women thus the unborn) is that it is brutality that changes the flesh.

But we are called to be transformed in the inward man...not terrify the flesh. Terror victims are not saved through their terror. Terror is another form of death.

You cannot be a minister of death and proclaim Christ. You are with the terrorists.

Why was the Red Army able to push to Berlin? The answer would be because the German war machine and the will of the people to field an army had been crushed by hundreds of thousands of "civilian" casualties.
The dog we beat was murdering jews by the masses. Ever considered the fact that God used the Allies to smash the Axis and preserve His people the Jews?
My view of scripture would actually make you the Big Dog. A man who idly stands by and watches the mass murder of innocent people and does not lift a finger to help is the "Dog."
You are with the Cowards.

[Clavicula_Nox]

Experience always trumps Jesus!

No, it just trumps ignorant people on the internet. You =/= Jesus.

[Clavicula_Nox]

I didn't have a problem going in there in the first place to get OBL but after that failed, mostly get out. This idea of nation building, and giving some alien culture "freedom and democracy" is bunk. They don't want it and they'll never appreciate what they don't earn. If they want to be left alone to live in the 8th century, I'm just fine with that. Wasn't nation building supposed to be some sort of neo-con thing anyway? Whatever happened with that?

I'm not sure I ever understood what strategic value Afghanistan has (maybe Mr. Nox can fill us in). As far as I know the only thing they have the rest of the world wants are poppy fields.

And another thing. Next time the US gets a hankrn' to invade another country, go in there, destroy their government, wipe out their infrastructure and smash their army. Then get out. If they want our help to rebuild, invite us in and pay us by the hour.

Afghanistan has a long-stalled, but important oil pipeline project that has been kicking around for a few decades. Strategically, the region is more important for Russian, Iran, China, Pakistan, and India and has been a proxy battleground for those nations for a long time.