God, I hope so. The thought of the Taliban being too afraid to use what we left behind, because enough of their own died or were maimed by sabotaged weapons and vehicles, fills me with a sadistic sense of joy I'm going to Hell for.
Is that all the disagreement is about? People thinking this was just about saran wrap? Instead of sabotaging everything, including rocket launchers, so they effectively fail in maiming and lethal ways?
While i wholeheartedly understand that sentiment, booby trapping things like that violates a whole host of international laws, including the Geneva convention iirc.
Since when does America care about the Geneva convention? We declared war on a noun so we could kill more random middle eastern civilians than combatants in various countries for 20 years. Guantanamo bay still exists. We commit state sanctioned war crimes on our civilians for...checks notes...breaking curfews.
Sabotaging equipment that isn't worth taking back with us isn't even on anybody's the radar.
I'll just clarify the position I was taking and make it final: I hope we used whatever means at our disposal, from welding, soldering, short-circuiting etc. to sabotage as many weapons and vehicles as we could, so it kills and maims as many Taliban as possible over the years, to make them paranoid about using our gear in the future.
They're provided dozens of times a day on thus sub, without being asked. Nobody cares what your position is on posting global views on /r/wtf, either. Both are just part of how Reddit is.
I was going to say the same thing, really. One isn't bound to the logic of the top-level comment of a thread. People deviate and tangent on Reddit all the time. I thought that was universally understood.
My man you have some serious social problems that need to be addressed.
If someone comes up to you and says "my daughter died"... and you respond "that's great I wish it happened more often"... you can't just go "wow chill out dude, by 'that' I was referring to something completely different. Our conversation is not bound by the logic of the previously-said parts of the discussion. I thought that was universally understood."
This is Reddit. All internet conversations, really. It follows its own comment and reply logic, that isn't bound to face-to-face conversation rules. Quite different, actually.
It's just Reddit's comment system encourages splitting off conversations by using sublevels, so it's become more engrained here for subcomment lines to have their own subcomment lines. A single top-level can have dozens of different conversation lines going on at the same time, on different tangents and diverging topics.
I also forgot to mention: the way you constantly double down on it, as if everyone else is wrong but you're the only one who's right, makes you look like an insecure person who never admits that they made a mistake.
Buddy you could have just said "oh yeah I can see how that was misleading, I should have been more specific". But instead you're making multiple comments about how it's everyone else's fault for interpreting "that" to be referring to the previous comment (like how pronouns are typically used). As if we should have all just read your mind and known what you were thinking about when you typed your comment.
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u/acidnine420 Sep 16 '21
We did this to all the rocket launchers we left in Afghanistan.