Red Cross defends helping Taliban treat casualties

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Garnett said:

famousringo said:

Garnett said:

highwaystar101 said:

They're also not your ally. To the Red Cross/crescent the taliban are not the enemy, they are soldiers being wounded and this is their only concern, they do not hold bias. They help USA forces too.

The Red/Cross doesnt get funded from the Taliban, and im sure they wouldn't help them if a doctor was beheaded on LIVE TV.

If America (and the free world) gets take out, then who the hell is gonna fund the Red Cross? Not the taliban.

The Afghan Red Crescent Society survived the last period of Taliban rule, so I suspect they'll survive your fantasy world where Al Qaeda has managed to detonate a WMD that kills only people who vote.

So let the Afghan Red Cresecent help them, We should NOT be helping them. They are

1. Civilizans with Guns, not soldiers.

2. Trying to kill our soldiers.

Im not gonna offer the guy who is trying to kill my family lemonade, that would be stupid.

"We?"

Your profile doesn't mention anything about being from Switzerland.

The article:

The International Committee of the Red Cross is defending its practice of providing medical training and basic medical supplies to the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Wikipedia:

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a private humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland. States parties (signatories) to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005, have given the ICRC a mandate to protect the victims of international and internal armed conflicts. Such victims include war wounded, prisoners, refugees, civilians, and other non-combatants.

Whether the Taliban are soldiers or civilians with guns is irrelevant to the International Committee of the Red Cross's mandate to protect war wounded persons. Furthermore, the notoriously and staunchly neutral Swiss don't have a side in this conflict. And finally, both the United States and Afghanistan, as signatories of the Geneva Conventions, recognize the ICRC's mandate to protect the health and welfare of those wounded in armed conflict, regardless of their allegiance.