Agreed. Terror is a tactic, not a group or a country. Something to net is that it is often the very people claiming to be our allies that are killing us. Look at all the green and blue attacks in afghanistan. On Nov 20, 2012 6:10 PM, "Judah McAuley" <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote:
> > The fact that we don't know how to tell the difference between our enemies > and our allies and we are just as scared of our allies as our enemies is > why we keep losing. > > I'm not saying it is the fault of our troops. None the less, if our troops > are of a mindset that even the guys that are supposed to be helping us are > just as likely to be enemies, then our troops treat everyone like savages. > And then amoral behavior like West's happens because he doesn't think of > the guy in front of him as being an equal human being. And you think of the > behavior as being minor because you don't think of the guy as being an > equal human being. He's a faceless brown dude like all the brown dudes who > tried repeatedly to blow you up. > > It sucks that West couldn't rise above that mindset. It is understandable > but it completely disqualifies him a leader of men in my book. > > And I do agree with you about declarations of war. We need to stop the > endless state of undeclared war. We're never going to win a war on "terror" > because terror isn't a thing, it isn't a people, and this war isn't keeping > us safe. > > Judah > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:58 PM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Geneva doesn't apply. Dude was not in a uniform, with a flag, or > carrying > > a Geneva convention ID card. All of which are required for the > convention > > to pertan. > > > > That being said, we shouldn't have been there in the first place. > > > > Look man, you've never had to wonder if you were gonna get raped and have > > your head cut off, it was a regular topic of conversation for us. > > Something we had to deal with and think about how we'd rather eat our > last > > bullet than be caught by the enemy. > > > > In the end though, you're right we need to be involved in far less > > conflicts, none without an actual declaration of war as far as I'm > > concerned. > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:358629 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
