On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:44:48 +0100, "Frithiof Jensen"
<frithiof.jensen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>"John Larkin" <jjSNIPlarkin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> skrev i
meddelelsen
>news:6pb1i4dmng06gvj9eq5dtcmg3525bvoidd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:19:33 +0100, "Frithiof Jensen"
>> <frithiof.jensen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>
>>>"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> skrev i
>>>meddelelsen news:635rh4tl5bddgivqihad0cp6k5a4rdouhg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:26:50 +0100, "Frithiof Jensen"
>>>> <frithiof.jensen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>> Germany... took some serious guts, and the guts were there. History
>>>> declares you wrong.
>>>
>>>History declares that the US have not won a proper war since Korea ...
one
>>>wonders what happened.
>>
>> Gulf war #1. We sure pushed the Iraquis out of Kuwaqit.
>
>But you did not finish the job!
We certainly got them out of Kuwait, literally in hours. Of course,
the UN took over.
>
>If one is not willing to go all the way in a war - like the US did on
Nazi
>Germany - then your opponent will outlast you, you will eventually lose
>millitarily (or lose interest in the cause) and then one should not have
>even bothered starting the war in the first place.
>
>>>
>>>> The Afghans, the Taliban, Sadaam's armies, those folks, turned tail
>>>> and ran when our forces showed up. Their brave talents run to female
>>>> suicide bombers and remote-control booby traps.
>>>
>>>Exactly: Murdering people is what they are good at; they have been at
it
>>>for
>>>centuries. These people will outlast and outgross any western involment
so
>>>why not just cut the waste of lives and trillons of USD and leave them
to
>>>get on with it instead of letting the side down by the eventual
>>>withdrawal?
>>
>> Damn, you are a nasty piece of work.
>
>Yep - I believe that there are people and nations that may have endings
but
>not happy ones! We were insanely lucky to get born here so why screw up
that
>luck by going - maybe not to The End of the world, but within farting
>distance - to stop the inevitable?
Because some of us have empathy.
John
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