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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I think Kipling was making comment on how barbaric it was to fall into the Afghans hands more than anything else, suicide was the better of the options.
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The Soviet soldier had an incredible level of fear of being captured in Afghanistan as their treatment as a prisoner would be incredibly short and brutal and in their minds inhuman (Again going back to dehumanizing your enemy so you can kill them easier).
But the Afghan record and Islam's record of their treatment of their enemy prsoners is not one of compassion.
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