(Split) Should we feel sympathy for Iraqis (or other non-Europeans/non-"whites") killed in warfare?

[Austin]

October 27, 2010 | Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/148265.html

American forces decapitated an Iraqi last year on the order of their higher-up, show recently-exposed US military documents.

The troops operated under the command of an unnamed US major, who had been involved in the rape of an Iraqi female, showed one such document posted on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

The incident took place after the victim, the brother of the raped female, reportedly killed a military official in reprisal for the indecent assault.

To enable the May incident in the city of Haditha of the western Iraq province of Al Anbar, the major said he was undertaking the transfer of two prisoners, including the victim.

WikiLeaks has released around 400,000 documents on the 2003-present US-led invasion of Iraq. The founder of the website, Julian Assange, has hailed the disclosure as one "about the truth" behind the war.

The site has also exposed documents on the similar US-led war in Afghanistan and is expected to disclose additional related details.

The following is the body of the original document .

___ DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EVENT: ON 25MAY09, MAJOR ___ (SWAT CDR) AND COL (___) TOLD -___ LEADERSHIP THAT THEY WERE GOING TO DELIVER TWO DETAINEES TO ___ IN THE NORTH BECAUSE THERE WAS MORE INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE ON THE TWO DETAINEES IN ___ THAN IN HADITHAH. WHILE ___ NORTH, MAJ ___ HIS CONVOY TO PULL OVER AND TRANSFER THE TWO DETAINEES TO HIS UNCLE AND FOUR BROTHERS.

ACCORDING TO COL , ___ IP FOUND ONE OF THE DETAINEES DECAPITATED AND THE OTHER WAS RELEASED BY MAJ ' ___ MEMBERS. MAJ ___ CURRENTLY IN IP CUSTODY.

OVER A YEAR AGO MAJ ___ RELIEVED AS HADITHAH SWAT CDR DUE TO HIS ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT IN THE RAPING OF A FEMALE LOCAL NATIONAL. THE BEHEADED DETAINEE IS REPORTED TO BE THE BROTHER OF THE RAPED FEMALE WHO ALLEGEDLY KILLED MAJ ' ___ IN RETALIATION FOR THE RAPING OF HIS ___.

Why do you care so much about Arabs being killed? I have no issue with it at all that my nations military kills Arabs. Are your cheap social leftist principles being infringed upon by seeing this? Awww

Arabs are not a European peoples and they are culturally opposed to my culture hence I and many others in the West have no moral issue at all with this.

[The Ripper]

Why do you care so much about Arabs being killed? I have no issue with it at all that my nations military kills Arabs. Are your cheap social leftist principles being infringed upon by seeing this? Awww

Even if to you human life is worthless to you, you could at least be upset about your taxes funding the slaughter that benefits no one but private business interests, political opportunists and their anti-national agendas.

Arabs are not a European peoples and they are culturally opposed to my culture hence I and many others in the West have no moral issue at all with this.

At least they have a culture. We have American anti-culture, which you seem quite eager to export abroad.

[Austin]

acting as you do in other words. well at least the europeans are not calling for genocide and acting as if another humans life is worth nothing simply because of geographic location and DNA difference.

Ummm Europeans are alongside Americans killing Arabs, hate to break that to you guys.

You seem to misunderstand me. I don't nor have I ever blamed 'Muslims' or 'Arabs' for anything. It is natural geopolitical conflict, it is the way of the world. I don't blame them for attacking the West, the West dominates them, it is to be expected.

You seem to take me not having a moral problem with Arabs being killed in their lands as somehow "blaming" them which is not the case. I don't blame them yet I don't care if they die either.

[Radojica]

Can somebody please ban this psycho ?!

[Austin]

Can somebody please ban this psycho ?!

Omg ban him he disagrees with me in a political war-time argument. Well I guess I know who won that. =)

[Vasconcelos]

It's getting disturbing, I'll give you that.

[Aramis]

Can somebody please ban this psycho ?!

Now, now Rade. Banning members you don't agree with is not the way of The Apricity, or rationality and critical thinking for that matter.

[anonymaus]

I don't care who kills Muslims/Arabs. I am not blaming Muslims for all America's problems or any for that matter, I just have no problem with them being killed.

If Russia invaded Mongolia and started ethnic cleansing I'd be all for it. I care not. It just doesn't trouble me and the fact that it doesn't bothers you.

I couldn't care less either. It's not that they are Race X or Religion X, but that they aren't modern or in any way enlightened--and at the moment they are our enemy. I don't love my enemy and I believe in no quarter.

[Austin]

It's getting disturbing, I'll give you that.

What does disturbing have to do with it? Why is it "disturbing", because you deem it that? Why must everything have to meet some idealistic moral standard? Am I not allowed to disavow the pathetic notion of human rights? I disagree with the notion of human rights, I see them as a political weapon nothing more.

Arabs are not the intellectual mage-like Asians. They are not Europeans or their descendants. I don't care about them, they hail from a primitive culture in comparison.

[Sol Invictus]

I couldn't care less either. It's not that they are Race X or Religion X, but that they aren't modern or in any way enlightened--and at the moment they are our enemy. I don't love my enemy and I believe in no quarter.

What a piss poor excuse to support immoral and unjustified acts of aggression without any benefit what-so-ever to the average citizen. This careless attitude is a huge part of the reason why we're so fucked up to begin with. No quarter to them because Mr. Bush said so? Please.