Friday, November 20, 2015

Carcases of truth

Even if soldiers died in the defence of the country, why, for all that's good, do you want to use it to gain political advantage so much so that you dig up an old picture to share for the easily deceived to broadcast across the social media as evidence of their demise? To what end? Whip up more sentiments of disfavour that dovetails with your avowed hatred of anything that speaks for the current government?

In the fight against terrorism, internal divisions only perpetuates the conditions that allow the ideology to productively fester and persist for longer. Added to the "them" versus "us" mantra, and we have the vital mixture that energises the terrorist movement.

Let us even admit that soldiers "vanished", presumably to their deaths (for, in truth, there's a dearth of truth in reports these days). Is spreading the questionably purported image of their burnt carcases the right reaction? To shame the army to submission?

Seriously?

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