RE: The Third Hundred Years War Has 86 To Go
September 16, 2017 at 1:49 am
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2017 at 1:57 am by The Grand Nudger.)
OFC it's the kind of hellhole where people trying to help get shot at, if it weren't..they wouldn't need help in the first place. Getting shot at is just a reality on the ground in these situations. There were reports of people (presumably looters or people who thought they were confronted with looters) shooting at boats working Texas, too. It's a thing that people with guns do, even when it seems like they wouldn't. Let;s call it a universal truth. No matter how good your intentions are, and how much you;ve helped some group x...somebody there wants to punch you right in your face for reasons™.
Another mess. We both recall the brilliant team of fucking leadership that got us into this, though, right? I'd be more inclined to pin our recent failures on that then on a fundamental incompetence of the US to help or do any good. We don;t exactly have stellar leadership now, either....but we also can't just cut and run. Rock and a hard place.
(September 15, 2017 at 12:34 am)Minimalist Wrote: Do you think the Iraqis were blowing IEDs up under our trucks/tanks because they wanted us to help fix things?"The Iraqis" weren't doing that. It was a rather more specific subset thereof. Thinking of it like that gets a trigger happy soldier in trouble, and creates just the sorts of problems we're dealing with now.
Quote:And then there is Afghanistan...........
Another mess. We both recall the brilliant team of fucking leadership that got us into this, though, right? I'd be more inclined to pin our recent failures on that then on a fundamental incompetence of the US to help or do any good. We don;t exactly have stellar leadership now, either....but we also can't just cut and run. Rock and a hard place.
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