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2010-05-21 Afghanistan

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Posted by Steve White 2010-05-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-05-21 06:29|| 2010-05-21 06:29|| Front Page Top

#2 ... highly unpopular in largely pacifist Germany.

Why is Germany so pacifist today? Isn't that what you want the Afghans and Pashtuns to be? So would you consider doing to the troublesome tribes what you did to the Germans to exorcise their two hundred year history of militarism out of their culture? /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-21 07:59|| 2010-05-21 07:59|| Front Page Top

#3 OK, they have more guns and more bullets - but do they have permission to shoot them?

Posted by Glenmore 2010-05-21 09:03|| 2010-05-21 09:03|| Front Page Top

#4 So would you consider doing to the troublesome tribes what you did to the Germans to exorcise their two hundred year history of militarism out of their culture?

That would take an awful lot of veterinarians working overtime.

Posted by mom 2010-05-21 09:19|| 2010-05-21 09:19|| Front Page Top

#5 I think that the pascifistic nature of the German people is due to the backlash , disgust and embarassment of their forefathers action during the 20's, 30's and 40's , Procopius2k

Generally a proud people , and definatley warrior spirits . Perhaps they realise that they need to play a larger part in operations for ISAF

Posted by Oscar 2010-05-21 09:19|| 2010-05-21 09:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Oscar, you're right.

Posted by mom 2010-05-21 09:26|| 2010-05-21 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, one view is that Germany was never unified, but rather annexed through a series of wars by Prussia-Saxony. Bavaria and the Rhineland states never exhibited the same intensity of 'warrior' spirit that Prussia and Saxon had. With the division of Germany in '45, the place was pretty much divided up along those lines with Soviets sitting on the Prussian and Saxon territories and the west on the the remaining lands, with the neutralized Austria out of the collection. The Bavarian and Rhineland confederation in the form of West Germany had the opportunity to organize and mature without the imposition of authority by the Prussians that it experienced in the 19th Century. Today most of Prussia is now Russian or Polish territory and has been subjected to cultural and ethnic cleansing for half a century.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-21 11:54|| 2010-05-21 11:54|| Front Page Top

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