Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
Hella not acceptable. Third time this has happened. I’ve always said that despite what they say about this not being a nation-building exercise, the only way to rid the place of terrorists is to affect social change. Radicalism is an idea, not a tangible enemy, afterall. Programs that are modernizing the place, such as those teaching farming practices and bringing education to the country is the only way way to bring permanent change. Pulling shit like this is a step backward, they need to rethink strategy here.
More than that though, it’s simply not the right thing to do - it’s atrocious that we’re disregarding innocent lives like that. Imagine us doing something like that in our own country - we’re unwilling to even give up an innocent life in a hostage situation, yet we’re willing to haphazardly drop a bomb in Afghanistan that kills 27 - wtf.
