Afghan Army Analogy

Discussion in 'Postwar' started by Owen, Jun 29, 2010.

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  1. m kenny

    m kenny Senior Member

    The 'we had one hand tied behind our back' excuse trotted out to make the defeat less painful to those who think 'their' army is invincible-in a 'fair fight'.
     
  2. Steve Mac

    Steve Mac Very Senior Member

    Clive is stating a realistic fact not making an excuse.
     
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  3. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Another (slightly hollow) laugh.

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  4. m kenny

    m kenny Senior Member

    Reality is the 20 year US/NATO effort failed miserably. The Soviet attempts before that can hardly have been said to be restrained and they fared no better. Are we in for decades of comparisons to The Vietnam War where endless national pride arguments revolve around the definition of 'won'.
     
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  5. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    No national pride
    Who is saying we have national pride about trying to big up a total horlicks
    Certain individuals like to gloat and always find the bad in everything

    Im simply saying hundreds of thousands on the ground and take out everything that needs to be taken out in country and anywhere else it need doing
    Dont listen to the bleeding heart liberals and get on with it

    But it didnt happen
     
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  6. m kenny

    m kenny Senior Member

    'Kill them all, God will know his own'?
    By the way I do not think this mindset is better than the Taliban mindset. They are both insane mindsets.
     
  7. m kenny

    m kenny Senior Member

    Tony Blair speech, Brighton 2001:

    To the Afghan people we make this commitment. The conflict will not be the end. We will not walk away, as the outside world has done so many times before.

     
  8. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    The saying is feet on the ground and plenty of them plus remove all terrorist heads
    Play unfair like for like

    regards
    Tallyman
     
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  9. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    This says more about that doddering old fool we have in the White House and that worthless Bolshevik whore at Number One Observatory Circle
     

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  10. m kenny

    m kenny Senior Member

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  11. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Ah, well. Worth a try, wasn't it.
    Any thread even touching politics, and seemingly especially American politics, apparently not worth the candle these days, military connection or not.

    I think it was the phrase 'Worthless Bolshevik Whore' that really tells me public civility is impossible for some on some issues.

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