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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| mises wrote: |
What did they die for? |
Obama on 60 Minutes
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| Making sure that Al Qaeda cannot attack the US homeland and US interests and our allies, that's our #1 priority, and in service of that priority, there may be a whole host of things we need to do . . . we cannot think that just a military approach can solve our problems in Afghanistan. |
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RJjr
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Turning on a Lamp
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| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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The difference between the generation that fought in WWII and the one today is that the WWII generation was toughened up by living through the Great Depression. Our generation is soft from being spoiled by a great economy. So was our parents' generation.
Look at the life the Viet Cong peasants lived and how the Afghans live. It instills a certain toughness that just cannot be acquired from eating Doritos and playing XBox.
Outsourcing our combat jobs to spoiled white boys in Canada and Britain isn't going to accomplish anything. Even if we got the Vietnamese to fight on our behalf, I don't think even they could win. The Vietnamese would absolutely whip the shit out of the Afghans if the Afghans invaded Vietnam, but I don't think even the Vietnamese could get a road victory in Afghanistan. The Soviets killed 8 out of every 9 German soldiers who died in WWII and even they struggled and lost in Afghanistan. It's just a hard, hard place for a road team to get a victory. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:40 am Post subject: |
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They're still being killed and the mission is still pointless:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/09/13/afghanistan-canada.html
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A Canadian soldier has died in Afghanistan while patrolling in the volatile Panjwaii district, where two other soldiers were killed just a week ago.
Pte. Patrick Lormand, 21, of the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment based in Quebec City, was killed and four others were injured in a roadside blast from an improvised explosive device on Sunday afternoon, the military said.
The armoured vehicle that Lormand was riding in struck the device about 13 kilometres southwest of Kandahar City, Brig.-Gen. Jonathan Vance said Monday.
Lormand, known as Lorm to his friends, is the 130th Canadian soldier to die since the Afghan mission began in 2002. One diplomat and two Canadian aid workers have also been killed. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| RJjr wrote: |
| Outsourcing our combat jobs to spoiled white boys in Canada and Britain isn't going to accomplish anything |
Great comment. You're a star. |
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