Comments on: The Khyber Pass Jugular Bleeds Again

By: Dubhaltach

Dubhaltach — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:10:18 +0000

Sadly I must agree.

FTR:

I go back in in a few days. My task. My ONLY task. Is to get my men out alive.

By: T-Bear

T-Bear — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:47:44 +0000

Good people are great losses to any organization when they leave. The education and skills that are lost are not calculable. American disrepute has been ongoing since the Vietnam action. The complete absence of reliable reporting to the people hides governmental malfeasance of the highest order. What has been created is an incredibly ignorant population, ungrounded in fact, disrespectful of knowledge, adverse to excellence, a mob ready to react to imaginary fear, or manipulative suggestion. A frightful monster it is armed with incredible power to destroy. That is what Iraq suffered, the destruction of an ageless culture, and without a doubt, it is barbarians who did it. There is great shame on the country of my birth that cannot be expunged.

By: Dubhaltach

Dubhaltach — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:18:26 +0000

I would agree with you. Denmark is one of the most pro-American country’s in Europe and there’s a lot of bitterness and animosity now. Especially among the armed forces. Let me give you an example. I have just finished expediting the return to civilian life of one of my best sergeants. He was looking forward to turning up to his daughter’s school in uniform plus medals to fetch her home his first day back. He’s so horrified and ashamed at the way that his honour and courage and patriotism were misused that he wants out. He’ll do well in civilian life (we train our people and give them good skills that transfer unlike the Americans). But there are 2 things:

1. He represents a major loss to the army. I am going to have big trouble replacing him and he is not the first.

2. When talking about what he has seen to civilians he makes no secret of his loathing and contempt for American soldiers and the society that created them.

By: T-Bear

T-Bear — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:14:13 +0000

Why would any civilized government be happy with another exporting their failures in the form of a drug culture. Some day, the accountants will have to assay the costs to the governments of treating the disease of drugs in their communities. Those costs will be exacted from the exporter in the form of trade barriers until the export is halted. That will take some small measure of fortitude, but the hegemon has become an economically toothless tyrant.

By: T-Bear

T-Bear — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:05:41 +0000

There is a growing anger against the U.S. that I have not seen before. I think the patience with American ignorance and dyspolity are finally coming to roost, as yet not towards individuals, but towards the members of the dysfunctional community that has supported these atrocities. Americans are going to be experiencing that censure the Germans faced after WWII. That responsibility will be exacted.

By: dmac

dmac — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:59:44 +0000

ok, thanks, i’ll ponder it some more…and probably see the sense in what you all are saying. maybe.
if the objective is to keep the taliban fighters from pakistan out, then you have to close the pass. only logical. then you would need less supplies for fewer troops. isn’t that the objective?

for now, i’m leaning in the pay more now rather than more later, close the pass direction.
i’ll think about it some more.

bbl

By: Dubhaltach

Dubhaltach — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:57:34 +0000

It’s rising to bite a lot of European governments and they are very far from happy about it.

By: T-Bear

T-Bear — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:47:24 +0000

I hadn’t been following that news at all. There was a Columbian shipment intercepted off Ireland of €450 millions recently IIRC. It is accepted knowledge that the Yanks opened the floodgates for opiates, possibly to finance their actions, no telling the level of complicity. People who live in secrets, usually expire in secrets.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:46:04 +0000

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains -
And the women come out, to cut up what remains
Then roll to yer rifle, and blow out yer brains
An’ go to yer Gawd like a soldier!

Rudyard Kipling, “The Young British Soldier”.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:42:49 +0000

Hey the CIA has always had to get a lot of “funding” from non-government sources.

Although that may now be the DoD “Intel” agencies. Small price to pay for continuing to fund disruptions to governments that parts of the US dislike. /s