Women are not fit for front line combat!

[hunter_alien]

Goatseye said:

hunter_alien said:

Wasnt just yesterday a chemical attack in Allepo? Isnt HRW attacking the US, its allies and pretty much every nation of mistreating POW's? But just for fun, here, some of the first findings:

http://europe.newsweek.com/isis-carries-out-chemical-weapon-attack-syrian-army-state-news-agency-444213?rm=eu

https://www.rt.com/news/338847-shocking-images-sheikh-maqsood/

https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/12/09/usa-and-torture-history-hypocrisy

These were literally the first results that I came upon. But I am sure you wont need a "let me google it for you" link if you want more.

The catch here is war. US is fighting guerillas, not nations. No war was declared.

US is doing the same thing in the mountains of Pakistan, where is the war? Is US at war with Syria and Iraq?

Yeah, now I see what you mean. From a classic definition these are indeed not wars. But in all honesty the de-facto meaning of a war has changed a whole lot since the cold war and especially in the last 2 decades. The War on Terror is not a war per-se, but the devastating effects are there, and they remain conflicts that have the same level of destruction and restructuring when it comes to power ballance. Turkeys fight against the PKK would also not be considered a war, or neither does the Syrian, Yemeni or Ukrainian conflicts. But IMO it is fair to discuss of them as one. Even if some powers only take up proxy rols, the truth is that they have the same scale and scope as a war in its purest deffinition.

But I think I am derailing the thread now. Maybe it would be a good idea to make a thread and discuss this as a separate topic