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2010-09-07 Home Front: Culture Wars
Gates of Vienna: Why Do Our Soldiers Fight?
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Posted by Uneng Anginerong2922 2010-09-07 08:12|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 A comment from the cited blog post:
Can you imagine Gen. George S. Patton taking orders like these without ripping off the insignia of his rank in disgust, and resigning his commission?

I would like to see one -- mind you, one -- high-ranking soldier who values his country and his sacred honor more than his career and his pension.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-09-07 12:36||   2010-09-07 12:36|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't note that anyone cares to point out that a few Generals are concerned about the lives of their troops they've been entrusted with and may actually think that endangering anyone of them is not worth the some cheap display of lower primate bravado by someone sitting comfortably thousands of miles away. Please accompany any notification officer when he has to tell a mother/father, wife/husband or daughter/son that their loved one is no longer with us. Been there, seen it, done it. If we're going to die at least make it for something other than some self serving adolescent fit.
Posted by Procopius2k 2010-09-07 13:07||   2010-09-07 13:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Damned if you do, damned if you don't. General P ought to be worrying about killing terrorists, not a Church exercising its right to freedom of expression in Florida. Typical meddling in affairs in a totally different jurisdiction under some sort of guise of 'winning hearts and minds' PR or psyops. Gimme a phucking break. Its a war, go the hell out on a limb and kill some terrorists, quit babysitting, and earn your pay. You've been given BILLIONS of dollars to work with, we want to see some shit destroyed blown up and our enemies driven before us. I am sick to death of this PR campaign war. We can do clean up afterwards.
Posted by Entertaining Prose 2010-09-07 13:24||   2010-09-07 13:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard will be awarded the M100 media prize today in Potsdam, Germany for his "unbending engagement for freedom of the press and freedom of opinion, and for his courage to defend these democratic values despite threats of death and violence".

Chancellor Merkel will give the keynote speech, and she won't be wearing a Burka.

Should that ceremony be cancelled?

Should the German police arrest Westergaard instead and deliver him to the Afghans for "trial" and execution?

It would appease the Afghan street for sure.

/sarc
Posted by Uneng Anginerong2922 2010-09-07 13:49||   2010-09-07 13:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Islam reminds me of the frightening 2 yo childhood phase where some kids literally bang their heads against objects when having a tantrum, until an adult comes along and picks them up, (still kicking and screaming) and diverts their attention to something beside giving themselves a concussion. You can let the child bang away, but in the end, you're going to have to stop them or they will destroy your home and their own skull. Appeasement is not the way to go.
Posted by Entertaining Prose 2010-09-07 14:04||   2010-09-07 14:04|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm not going to criticize Petreus or his generals for saying what he has to say to minimize threats against the troops. Speak soft and carry a big stick is not a bad idea. Just be ready to use the stick at all times. Which maybe he isn't and Obama isn't.

Posted by Goober Goobelopolous 2010-09-07 15:52||   2010-09-07 15:52|| Front Page Top

#7 maybe definitely he isn't and Obama

No they can't have our earth and water or our toys. Better they know sooner than after they nuke one of our cities. Some kids on the block never realize that stealing our toys is not going to get them the outcome they are desiring, which is more toys.
Posted by Entertaining Prose 2010-09-07 17:00||   2010-09-07 17:00|| Front Page Top

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