The Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has carried out its single deadliest strike ever, attacking the Army Public School in the city of Peshawar and massacring students within. At least 160 people, overwhelming children, were among the slain.
Eight attackers, wearing the uniforms of the Pakistani military’s Frontier Corps, entered the school in the morning and began taking hostages. At one point they reportedly had over 400 students out of the school’s 1,100.
The Pakistani military raided the building during the hostage-taking, and started a bloody gunbattle. The TTP attackers then started to go from classroom to classroom shooting everybody.
TTP spokesman Mohammed Khurrassani said the attack was revenge for the hundreds of tribesmen killed in recent Pakistani military offensives, saying that “we are facing such heavy nights in routine. Today, you must face the heavy night.”
make them hate you, in a blind rage they strike back. great strategy
Bastards, cowardly Taliban killing children. Get the bastards.
Old Testament
“Eye for eye, tooth for tooth and life for life…Without the shedding of blood not can it be forgiven”
Above is both a precise definition of human nature and the fundamental principle upon which all of law is based in a world governed by deadly force.
Comes now the above two posters to express the white Western brand of justice, express not the slightest repentance for our drone killers that have made body parts of ten time the number of Pakistan children, at least 1,600 helpless little ones, but with a superior Western intellect to repeat the mainstream media brainwash that if we kill off all the laboring-class Taliban, then the rich ruling-class would stop hoarding all the wealth and land.
I can no longer care any way.
Let the dice fall as they may.
The government of Pakistan, a strong Taliban supporter, gets its "school" attacked by its creations. "History, it seems, is not without a sense of irony". I can't remember who said that…
If they'd done it from the air they'd be heroes.
Timing's interesting…torture report and all. It's not hard to harden a GWoT-Sucker's heart.
Sadly, this is the face of war- this is the face the American public doesn't see except on the nightly news, and then only a few highly-edited seconds at a time. This is the face of war you see when you are fighting an enemy who has the means and the will to strike back- yes, even at children- and cause you the most shock and pain possible. Imagine if we were fighting an enemy in our own back yards and neighborhoods- imagine the horrors the American public would finally see brought right to their doorstep, horrors that no nightly news crew could edit and erase.
The sad fact is, we tell ourselves we're 'fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here' but all we have accomplished to date is to delay the inevitable. We think that Smalltown, USA, is untouchable- I fear it's only a matter of time before we find out just how very, very wrong we've been about our mounting enemies around the world.