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I've been saying for some time now that we've been there too long and we no longer have a clear mission. This sort of thing is what we saw as Viet Nam dragged on and our purpose there became more and more poorly defined. The military should never be used as a peace-keeping force. Its purpose is to kill our enemies, not prop up unstable and unpopular governments.
i've been saying for some time now that we've been there too long and we no longer have a clear mission. This sort of thing is what we saw as viet nam dragged on and our purpose there became more and more poorly defined. The military should never be used as a peace-keeping force. Its purpose is to kill our enemies, not prop up unstable and unpopular governments.
+1 Every "war" since WWII has never been declared by congress...who just happen to be the morons that are supposed to declare a "war"!
Last edited by Pretzelogik; 09-29-2010 at 08:30 AM..
Till I watched that video I thought that hordes of American drug addicts were killing hundreds of people for sport.
I think there is a chance that not all our soldiers there are as unethical as this thing sounds. I don't think that my foster daughter will be among the killers since she doesn't use drugs and is just not that kind of soldier. It is pretty hard to put that many people in country without a few bad apples being among them and getting together, at that. It sounds to me like they were just a little bit afraid of their immediate commander, the sergeant Gibbs. There are ways to avoid that kind of thing for strong minded people.
Anyway, I am sure glad I watched that video to learn that this is not a wholesale murdering of civilians.
Those men need to be charged with the crimes and held accountable if they killed innocents.
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Originally Posted by momonkey
I've been saying for some time now that we've been there too long and we no longer have a clear mission. This sort of thing is what we saw as Viet Nam dragged on and our purpose there became more and more poorly defined. The military should never be used as a peace-keeping force. Its purpose is to kill our enemies, not prop up unstable and unpopular governments.
It starts at the top. When the commander in chief is more concerned with image and how he's going to get out of Afghanistan instead of winning it, that tends to filter down to the enlisted, I think.
We need to get out of there, now. We have no business propping up a new government but hey the government is at the behest of the international bankers who control the Federal Reserve, and he who controls the money gets to make the rules
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