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Originally posted by Sean48
Originally posted by Acid_Burn2009
Maybe we should just hunt down all militant radicals (of any religion) and put them on an island and nuke it. Problem solved...no need to occupy Iraq of Afghan anymore. Even then the bleeding hearts would come out of the woodwork.
Would this list include the present and past administration?
Congress.
Originally posted by wdkirk
reply to post by Ionut
I thought marines kept and eye on embassies..........
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Originally posted by Acid_Burn2009
Originally posted by wdkirk
reply to post by Ionut
I thought marines kept and eye on embassies..........
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Seriously? I hope that is a joke.
Originally posted by Acid_Burn2009
reply to post by 27jd
Who, whoa I am not defending Haliburton. I had to deal with them for quite some time and I can't stand them and their sub-standard services and "qaulity control"
Don't recall the poster that said something about AK-47 and the child in Africa.
Either way, some of you just do not understand any other culture then the one you live in. It's all you know because it is the way you have lived your entire life. I understand the point the poster tried to make. Unless you have been there and know the culture (not from tv or internet...but being physically immersed in the culture) you really don't know anything about it.
My only problem with your post is the statement that only special forces have the ability to determine correct targets. I can only speak from Marine Corps experience but we are highly trained in threat detection and positive ID before we discharge any rounds from our rifles. Not trying to be super dick here, but that just shows the ignorance in your statement. Before you get ticked off, look up the meaning of ignorant in the dictionary.
-Nate
I can only speak from Marine Corps experience but we are highly trained in threat detection and positive ID before we discharge any rounds from our rifles.
Originally posted by 27jd
Originally posted by Mikeyy
You just keep telling yourself that, next time you are in Afrika, and a 9 year old boy opens fire on you with an AK-47.
If i'm in AfriCa minding my own business, i don't see why a 9 year old with an AK-47 would have any interest in opening fire on me. If you're in Africa occupying somebody else's homeland, to secure the interests of greedy, fat corporate sons of bitches, you know, the ones who will use our military, and our tax money to expand their personal bank accounts, then you should expect to dodge a 7.62 every now and again. There is NO honor in killing kids, and there is no honor in the current wars being fought. Fighting terrorist organizations with uniformed military is ridiculous. Special forces hunter killer teams, who are DISCIPLINED enough to pick the right target, and good enough that a 9 year with heavy a$$ AK-47 can't get the drop on them, are who are needed for this type of asymetrical warfare, not large numbers of troops trained to fight OTHER troops. People don't like foreign troops laying down the law in their homeland. I don't blame them.
Originally posted by 27jd
reply to post by Acid_Burn2009
I have no problem with our soldiers, and i respect and appreciate those of you who join the military intention of defending this country and representing us with honor (meaning you don't view the innocents on the other side as animals that should be treated inhumanely because their culture is different). Just keep in mind, you swore to defend our constitution, from enemies foreign AND domestic. Our government, the lawmakers who create our military policy, is corrupt to the core and have all been bought and paid for by corporate lobbyists of ALL kinds. Any action they wish to take should be suspect to the maximum. It should make you more angry than anybody that they are using our military to secure their financial interests.
I can only speak from Marine Corps experience but we are highly trained in threat detection and positive ID before we discharge any rounds from our rifles.
I don't doubt that, but you're not trained to get in and out before anybody knows you were ever there. Marines, or any other regular army, should never really be in a situation where you have to differentiate between a child and a hostile target. We should be doing everything in our power to take out extremists while making as little impact as possible on the civilian population. Otherwise, you'll NEVER win this battle, you'll only create more and more people who hate and want to kill you.
Originally posted by Mikeyy
That poster was saying that No soldier should ever kill a child. and Then When I brought up a situation where one would have to kill a child, he just rants that you are just some corperate puppet who deserves to get shot at and blah. Hes a Total troll.
Originally posted by Mikeyy
This is where you are wrong. People don't need you to give them ANY reason to kill you. If YOU walked down mainstreet baghdad right now, with a Sign saying "STOP THE WAR", You do realise that al qaeda would still abduct you, and cut your head off, to be featured on the internet.
It's not personal, its Business.
Originally posted by Acid_Burn2009
With that being said, how can anyone believe the accusations in the OP. Every military person I have ever met has/is served/serving wth honor and pride.
Originally posted by 27jd
Originally posted by Mikeyy
This is where you are wrong. People don't need you to give them ANY reason to kill you. If YOU walked down mainstreet baghdad right now, with a Sign saying "STOP THE WAR", You do realise that al qaeda would still abduct you, and cut your head off, to be featured on the internet.
It's not personal, its Business.
Sure, that's what the corporate bastards who control the media want us to think. That they're all monsters, thirsty for our American blood. The vast majority of them are HUMAN, like us. They have HUMAN emotions, like us. Most people just want to go on with their lives without hassle. If a FOREIGN country invaded us here in the USA, i know for a FACT we would fight them, tooth and nail. And i know for a FACT the propaganda in their country would paint us as monsters, thirsty for THEIR blood.