08-16-2009, 11:56 AM
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... if she refuses!
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08-16-2009, 01:43 PM
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This and the rapes in the Congo make me feel so useless and helpless to make a difference.
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08-16-2009, 07:33 PM
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And we have people over there dying.
I have a feeling we won't like the country, even if they "lock out" al Quaida.
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08-16-2009, 10:31 PM
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I realize we can't bring our troops home just yet, and I realize that it's their country their decision; but you know, kind of makes me wonder why we didn't just flatten them all and get it over with.
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08-17-2009, 08:38 PM
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Because you went to help the good guys get free of the Taliban and help quash terrorism in the region. You didn't seem to realise that "good guys" is a relative term.
Flat, black and glowing was only ever an option in your dreams.
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08-17-2009, 11:11 PM
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Well this is a place that still thinks it is 1250AD.
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08-21-2009, 09:47 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Oldfart
Because you went to help the good guys get free of the Taliban and help quash terrorism in the region. You didn't seem to realise that "good guys" is a relative term.
Flat, black and glowing was only ever an option in your dreams.
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One could argue though that the problem is that we are no longer allowed to fight wars in the way they need to be fought. You cannot fight a war based on popular opinion. We have tried to make war a pretty thing that plays well on the evening news so one side or the other can politically speaking domestically can show how their ideas are the best or the other sides in the worst. When in reality "war is a means to a political end" and you do what ever needs to be done (short of torture, and out right cruelty) to win.
Wars are not something to be entered into lightly and I feel that the conflicts we are currently entered into were done so very very lightly. No consideration was made to how to get out, and what could be considered a victory. No thought or planning was in place at the start of these wars. The American public was not willing to accept what needs to be done to win these wars.
I'm done rambling now.
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