RE: ISIS is the Sauds. The Sauds own ISIS. It's America's cold war gift.
August 22, 2016 at 3:33 am
(August 19, 2016 at 8:32 am)Rhythm Wrote: I volunteered beforehand, and I was a peacekeeper beforehand, but I saw myself as a peacekeeper afterwards as well. I wasn't in the service to kill terrorists, I was in it to help people.Massive respect for you to "suit-up" and get the job done.
I too aspired to become infantry, but unfortunately I damaged my spine in bootcamp.
While drones are incredibly effective at instilling fear in the enemy, as they can strike at any given time with good effect.
But as you say, there's not really anything that can get the job done as boots on the ground. It makes the civilian population feel better
and with the stuff that NATO was doing in the rural parts of Afghanistan, with building wells, schools, etc, it gives us an edge over the Taleban and sways the population to our side.
And I know from experience (though only with 9mm training rounds.) that room clearing and all is risky, dangerous, but incredibly effective at minimizing the civilian casualties, compared to a JDAM or a Hellfire.
I don't know what my view on this would be had I gone to Afghanistan, but as a former serviceman, do you think that the entire thing about a nations casualties, really concern civilians when it comes to peacekeeping?
I mean the people who are down there, are down there fully knowing and willing to do the job they're put there to do.
But I feel like back at home, we're often treating soldiers who are always volunteers nowadays, like they're put at unneccessary risk and that they shouldn't be there at all.
It seems stupid to me that people oppose boots on the ground, as it would possibly claim casualties on our side.
Casualties due to shitty equipment and lousy command is in no way to be accepted, but in some situations like Afghanistan and their fucking IED's, I feel like the serviceman is the best person to determine wether or not he should be there, and not some civilian at home, feeling the need to tell him that he shouldn't be there because it puts him at risk.
