Red Cross defends helping Taliban treat casualties

[famousringo]

Garnett said:

famousringo said:

"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.

We as the free world, Taliban are nothing more than 3rd world Terrorist. They would not treat us with such health care, they would behead us or let us die.

As  phinch1 pointed out, The Taliban tried to kill injured soldiers, we should not be helping these Animals, they show no mercy upon OUR wounded troops, we shouldnt show mercy upon theirs.

 

You claim to hate the Taliban, yet you eagerly allow them to define your moral position on what ought to be done with a wounded enemy. I think the Swiss would just as soon keep their moral high ground rather than adopt your lowest common denominator sense of ethics.