Archive for the ‘Taliban’ Category
Why is Treason so bad?
The Sun have a story today on British-Born Taliban fighting in Afghanistan, Iain Dale condemned them:
The Sun reveals this morning that British spy planes have picked up the voices of Taliban fighters speaking with Brummie and Bradford accents. These people are presumably British passport holders and are fighting British soldiers. When they are caught they should be charged with treason. There was a time when they would faced being hanged. To be honest, it’s what they deserve.
I just can’t get behind this kind of thing: Why are British-Born Taliban worse than Non-British Taliban? If we caught a British-Born Taliban and an Afghan-Born Taliban why would one have committed inherently worse crimes?
Am I a worse person if I’m a traitor against my country and murder a British person than if I murdered a French person? If it were India trying to keep the peace in Afghanistan, would the actions of these British Taliban be less evil?
Are the Germans who fled Germany to fight with the British Army to be looked down upon because they fought a war against their countrymen?
The Taliban are traitors against humanity, there are any number of reasons to despise them. Their nationality is utterly unimportant.
