Afghan market car bomb 'kills 89' in Paktika province

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

At least 89 people have been killed in a car bomb explosion at a busy market in eastern Afghanistan's Paktika province, the defence ministry says.

Officials say the attacker drove a 4x4 vehicle into the market in Orgun district and detonated the explosives.

The market was crowded, full of people doing their shopping at the time of the attack.

The eastern province of Paktika shares a border with Pakistan's restive and volatile tribal areas.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-28307857

[Dustlawyer]

1. What do these guys hope to accomplish killing women, children and shop keepers?

How is this supposed to help their cause?

[Turbineguy]

2. Winning of hearts and minds.

Murdering is easier than governing.

[freshwest]

4. You're asking the wrong questions because you're looking at this from a humanist perspective.

Reducing the people to survival level will give terrorists power. Destabilization will achieve their goal of defeating the organized resistance (the government) to let them comandeer territory. Either by people fleeing or silencing them to let the new ruling class do as they please.

The idea that people all are equal and should have a voice interferes with the accumulation of power and wealth in the hands of small group who will then rule over the rest. They will kill until they are at parity with their resistance. They are working towards their goal.

Business predators use terms like head chopping, cut-throat competition, crushing and destroying rivals and other violent terms because they covet what someone else has and will take it one way or the other. Survivors will submit and work for them in one way or another.

As far as their ability to govern once they take over, the words of Machiavelli prove true because fear is far more effective than maintaining consensus or the love of others, since it paralyzes their ability to think or act effectively to resist.

And so it goes on Planet Earth.

[Dustlawyer]

5. Unfortunately, I think you are spot on!

[freshwest]

7. And when the tipping point is met and civil society is gone, they'll call their rule 'stability.'

It's called a lot of other things during the process, religion, liberty, business. But those are the cover stories for seizing territory.

Animals and tribalists do this without using any pretense. Words lose meanings when you look at results.

Hope you're doing well today, you're a good 'un.

[Quantess]

6. Exactly, you are looking at it from a humanist perspective.

Another perspective would see that the children grow up into soldiers who fight back, women wil just breed more babies who will grow up to be their enemies, and shopkeeper civilians are just in their way.

[samsingh]

3. do those attacking Israel for defending itself - any thoughts on this routine massacre

by militants?