Deadliest Warrior

I'll just talk about Deadliest Warrior since I have been watching it lately. Basically they put two warriors against each other. Like the samurai vs. the viking. Who would win? They do tests of the armor and weapons and compute who would win. (Samurai won that battle of course) But one episode chose to pit the IRA (Irish Republican Army) against the Taliban. Now most of the episodes had been purely educational and entertaining. This one seemed...a little bit on the....controversial side.

Now I get that the Taliban is an actual group of "warriors" and I understand that the show is all about showcasing different types of people and fighting styles. This however seemed to cross a line slightly. Perhaps I may just be slightly touchy about the subject but while the Taliban are still trying to destroy US soldiers I think it may have been pushing it. They couldn't find a different group to go against the IRA than the Taliban?

This isn't even the worst part of the episode though. One of the two Taliban "experts" was bad mouthing the IRA guy and talking up the Taliban. That was a little bit over the top. He was actually bragging about how good the Taliban were at taking out soldiers. The only redeeming thing about the episode was that the Taliban lost to the IRA.

I'm still feeling slightly in shock after watching that though. Mostly just because of the guy bragging about how awesome the Taliban is. I don't find Guerrilla warfare particularly amusing so the whole episode was a little bit irritating but at least the lesser of two evils took the title.