UK special forces unit had ‘deliberate policy’ to ‘kill fighting-aged males’ in Afghanistan, inquiry told

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1. Mind you, if the allegations in the inquiry and subsequent article holds true (which is looking more and more likely), this means the UK ran British death squads in Afghanistan that mass-killed civilians on a national and age basis.

2. The fundamental problem is that occupation without this kind of violence isn’t really possible. The entire concept is a fallacy.

   Doesn’t matter if it’s palestine or afghanistan or ukraine, occupiers by their very nature are going to be paranoid as fuck and have twitchy trigger fingers at absolute best and at worst see everyone as an insurgent ‘terrorist’ threat that needs putting down. Even with the strictest RoE and discipline you’re going to have problems.

   This should be glaringly obvious to anyone who’s even loosely able to imagine being in a warzone. Yet we pretend that benevolent occupation is perfectly realistic.

   The same flaws underpin most of the ‘laws of armed conflict’. Sure i shouldn’t shell ‘civilian buildings’, but also why on earth would i go into an urban area where someone could pop out from all sides and kill me without me even noticing. You bet i’m going to throw some shells at that tower block that gives people an open kill shot on me. Inversely, i shouldn’t use civilian places to conduct war, but why would i use riskier tactics that are more likely to get myself killed.

   This isn’t a moral argument, it’s just a basic recognition of human nature. That doesn’t ofc mean that sometimes people behave in egregious ways or that we should abandon these principles. It just means that the feigned shock and outrage whenever it happens is a bit odd.

3. >documents submitted to chair Sir Charles Haddon-Cave claim commanders defied an order to preserve computer evidence.

   Fantastic that commanders can just choose to remove files.

4. If this is true, I wonder who thought this is a good idea in order lower the threat level to the US. „Having everyone know someone who got massacred by US troops surely makes them peaceful“?

5. Australians did it too, and a civilian court found in a defamation suit that it is likely on balance of probabilities that war crimes were commited, and absolutely nothing happened.

6. This is what happens when you build an army of anxious pussies, they will shoot at anything that moves. Watch any documentary about the Afganistan or Iraq war and you have soldiers in heavily armed tanks constantly freaking out. The one that’s stands out was on Discovery Channel, some soldiers on patrol in a Bradley IFV had what can only be described as a meltdown when a 10 year old kid and his younger brother walking on their way to school, passed by the Bradley. These guys seriously thought about shooting them because IED.

   The results of this can also be felt by the civilian population in America where cops are the same anxious pussies and will unload an entire magazine because an acorn fell of a tree.

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