{"id":37136,"date":"2013-08-17T10:49:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T14:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37136"},"modified":"2013-08-17T10:49:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T14:49:44","slug":"talibans-war-on-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37136","title":{"rendered":"Taliban’s war on civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that Taliban attacks across Afghanistan yesterday mainly cost civilians their lives. It began with a pre-dawn attack on some laborers building a road. Using RPGs and other small arms, the Taliban killed nine and a policeman.<\/p>\n

A family of five struck an IED with their minivan, killing all of them in the Marjah district of southern Helmand province. Another roadside bomb killed three women in Helmand’s Sangin district. In a medical clinic, a suicide bomber detonated himself killing three more.<\/p>\n

That’s a busy day for the forces of evil. The article says that the Taliban is trying to recover the territory that they lost, but I don’t know how killing unarmed civilians accomplishes that. <\/p>\n

There’s no word of Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemning the attacks, you know, like he does in the minutes after he suspects that Americans have killed non-combatants, so we have to assume that he approves of the Taliban attacks on civilians.<\/p>\n

And it appears that our rush for the exits is proceeding as planned, not to be delayed by increased Taliban-inspired violence. I think this administration said that our pace of withdrawal would be determined by safety of the Karzai government and their constituents, but that doesn’t seem to be the case at all. This isn’t my surprised face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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