In intellectual discussions Islam is the enemy of Democracy, when using a “tight” definitions of both terms. If the soldiers were allowed to operate under this assumption these religious wars would now be over. Unfortunately, for the soldiers especially, this is not what they are allowed to openly believe. Most of the so called war crimes come out of these conflicting mission statements.

In addition to all the other horrors contained in this story, Mecca and Medina are in Saudi Arabia, politically (externally) if not socially moderate, and ostensibly an ally of our petroleum based-government. They couldn’t be happy reading that we may have to destroy their cities to save the Christian world.

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http://www.publicintelligence.net/dodd-macdis/

This is not “news” though it certainly is worth remembering—that is, religious fanaticism on any and all sides.  Wars of church and state occur as century-old animosities that have been whipped into a frenzy on both sides whenever a religious faction or the military leaders of a state want to stir up enthusiasm for a war.
  Religion and militarism both lend themselves to fanaticism very easily because of their highly emotional appeal and lack of reasonable controls.  Both religion and militarism fill the need for oppressed and/or fearful people to explode by presenting them with false targets for opposition. 
  The crowning irony is that organized religion and organized state are deadly when they are enemies,  and they are deadly when they are friends. Because both demand loyalty and both are never satisfied, they will eat you alive if you give them half a chance.
  Through centuries they have managed to make temporary truces and agreed on certain “territories”
but the boundaries are fragile and both are greedy for power over anything and everything.
  You have a right to your own free soul.

Its what Col Dooley practiced in Iraq.

  Quote “Dooley also presumed, for the purposes of his theoretical war
plan, that the Geneva conventions that set standards of armed conflict,
are “no longer relevant”.

He adds: “This would leave open the option once again of taking war to a
civilian population wherever necessary (the historical precedents of
Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki being applicable to the Mecca and
Medina destruction decision point).”

So much for “why they hate us.”

independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-the-
children-of-fallujah—the-hospital-of-horrors-7679168.html

Just one of many.
 
How can you even begin to describe a dead baby with just one leg and a
head four times the size of its body?