Kodiak, you've got me, just last night I watched a Sly video. It was about racing and was as bad as most of his movies. The first Rambo was ok.
Actually, I was thinking more of our own history. In the days of the old west when civilization was crude and people all bore arms, it was not uncommon to see vigilante justice and sometimes it took the form of a shot from an ally or from behind a bush. "Getting along" had more meaning back then I guess. Not long ago we had killing in the main street of a town (was it Utah?) in broad daylight. The newly departed was the town bully and was purportedly dangerous. No one saw it, it must have been a cloudy day.
My view of a place that has been at war for as long as Afghanistan and has only kept up with the modern world in the area of weaponary, is that there are probably a lot of people who know how easy it is to kill someone safely and effectively. I added to that the fact that people have families and that the victims were children. It just seemed to me that someone might take that shot. Am I missing something that is peculiar to the region or is it just that human nature is so meek that the strong can take from the meek everywhere, even when the meek have access to arms?
I do agree that when tortured we do tend to speak freely. I saw a special on the POW's in the Viet Nam war, however, in which the survivors placed the POW's in categories. One category was the prisoner who would not bend, even under torture. The survival rate for them in that setting was dismal but evidently there were some like that. Admittedly the NVA methods were crude and were not designed to maximize pain while prolonging life, but still it makes you wonder if some can and will take the tough way out. I suspect that I would give them so much information that none of it would make sense and, as any of you who have read my previous posts is aware, any information I provided would probably be useless and more likely to harm the enemy than help. gg. Ed
PS. As soon as I think I have anthing interesting to say about the market, I will. In the meantime I think this is a wait and see time since there are too many wild cards in the game. |
