Posted on 10/12/2009 9:44:51 AM PDT by Crush
“Millions for tribute, but not one penny for defense!”
It is true that many within the UK defense establishment knew they were unprepared for war Hitler was even more so. UK had a defense industry that could have been sprung into motion and the Nazis didn’t have masses of men as they were coming off of the Versailles imposed limitations on their forces. If ww2 had started then it still would have been awful but it would have been won by the UK and France alone.
Of course then there would have been a non nuclear ww3 with the soviet union...
Pres_ _ent So-Vain Hussein Obama: "Go Taliban. Go Taliban. Go Taliban.
MY new presidential helicopter will let ME cook a meal while under nuclear attack."
They all belong to the culture of death that is incompatible to our way of life. The approach I approve of to "win hearts and minds" has yet to be tried which is the only method they respect...
Why doesn’t the arasewipre pay some of my and others bills before sending money to enemies...besides I could use it better as sure most all Americans could.
Has anyone thought to ask the Afghan Army who only pays about $150/month per soldier?
Trying to talk logic about this issue clearly isn’t going to work
This was part of Patreaus’ surge strategy. Pay off the Sunnis in Iraq and put them on our pay roll.
Much easier then having our soldiers be sitting ducks with the current ROE
Well...then we agree. An essential part of Petreaus’s strategy was to put insurgents, who had American blood on their hands, on the U.S. payroll. Obama is doing the same. The ROE is a separate issue.
yes we do agree.
I also think this strategy is a MUST in Afghanistan where you are dealing with the most ignorant population on Earth
You feed them or give them the means to feed themselves (via bribes) they won’t hurt you.
You mess with them, they’ll get back at you as hard as possible. It is truly a “culture of honor” meaning that any slight against them is a slight against their “honor” and they must get revenge. Its typical of any type of people that live in mountains around the world.
Bribe them. Get them to lay down their arms against us. It’ll cost far less American blood
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