[taliban] if you kill us, we’ll kill ourselves

Tragic logic in this war. A bomb ripped through a bus in southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing 14 civilians as the Taliban threatened to step up already rising suicide attacks and accused NATO forces of genocide of the civilians they were using as human shields. Everything is so wrong about this thing - such devastation, such appalling leaders the country spawns, such consequences, such a cynical agenda. People are slaughtered and the leaders jabber their rhetoric in response.