RE: Mosul Liberated
August 13, 2017 at 2:22 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2017 at 2:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Hey, I didn't say we wouldn't constantly trip and fall in the attempt. 
@Thump
I agree, we've made our own bed there but, imo, part of doing the right thing going forward is absorbing the shit that's going to get tossed at us while plodding on with the job of legitimately helping to improve the region. It means that peacekeepers will be shot at, for example, while handing out food. That's nothing new, though. I guess, for me, it's difficult to believe that there's no point or amount of sacrifice that would be capable of breaking through that distrust. If and where we haven't reached that point we just have to work through it. If you keep slapping a guy in the face and he just keeps doing his best to help you...it becomes a matter of who's exhausted first. I like to think that, if we wanted it, it would be the assholes whose arms eventually got too tired to throw another punch. You don't really have to win some decisive military or pr victory, you don't even have to be more capable; you just have to outlast the other guy.
@Thump
I agree, we've made our own bed there but, imo, part of doing the right thing going forward is absorbing the shit that's going to get tossed at us while plodding on with the job of legitimately helping to improve the region. It means that peacekeepers will be shot at, for example, while handing out food. That's nothing new, though. I guess, for me, it's difficult to believe that there's no point or amount of sacrifice that would be capable of breaking through that distrust. If and where we haven't reached that point we just have to work through it. If you keep slapping a guy in the face and he just keeps doing his best to help you...it becomes a matter of who's exhausted first. I like to think that, if we wanted it, it would be the assholes whose arms eventually got too tired to throw another punch. You don't really have to win some decisive military or pr victory, you don't even have to be more capable; you just have to outlast the other guy.
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