"Dr. Evil" wrote:
Interesting idea in the area of "psychological warfare" I guess, but one problem: There are Jews and Moslems in the US army who might have a lot of problems with this.
<shrug> So they don't have to be the ones to slaughter the pigs. It's hard for me to see how anyone, regardless of faith, could object to treating a terrorist that way. By the way, terrorists are generally not considered soldiers for purposes of treatment when captured. They're criminals, with almost no rights. They might claim they're soldiers, but the lesson of Nueremburg is that the winners make the rules.
Perhaps a Britney Spears concert?
Hey, now, we don't want to be violating the Geneva and Stockholm accords ourselves. <g>
One thing to keep in mind is the ordinary guys in Afghanistan are aching for anything American (or rather, anything American that doesn't go "bang"). ... Maybe the US could take advantage of its cultural, instead of military, might? Any other solution is better than killing if possible.
Right, which is what I was saying about airdrops with consumer goods as well as food and guns. Medicines, too, just thought of that.
From what I can tell they don't take their religion seriously at all.
Probably some of them do, the Joe Talibans I mean, not the not-so-smart bombs. The problem is they probably haven't read the Koran too carefully and are relying on the misinterpretations of mullahs with agendas. Same thing happens with Christianity. Latin America had several preachers teaching "Revolutionary Christianity" or some such nonsense, telling the guerrillas that the sixth commandment allows the killing of enemies. The preachers could get away with this because the masses were mostly semi-literate and mostly uneducated. -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel 617-670-3793 "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato