Posted on 04/18/2006 7:10:51 AM PDT by white trash redneck
"...winning the hearts and minds of the local population,..."
You can't possibly be serious?
For every single faction of muslim/"iraqi" participants, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is in effect wrt the US. None of them are destined for or intend to have an eye-to-eye realtionship with the US after the shouting is over.....they will all revert to their homoestatic nature.
I would have replied to you, explaining about COIN strategy as I have to others but from your rant I guess it would go right over your little head.
I will change my mind on your abject stupidity if you can point out where I wished away Israel
We could export the excess lard under the guise of a Ted Kennedy visit.
"There's a sensitivity that I think all of us recognize,"
Yeah. Human bodies are very "sensitive" to bullets - no matter where they were made.
Bleh, of course I wasn't going to be the first with that joke, now was I?
"I think they ought to equip our troops with Israeli manufactured ammo DIPPED IN PIG FAT."
Works for me.
Then, what are we doing out there, and from all reports from troops on the ground in both the British and American sectors it is working.
You were in Vietnam, you cant tell me that when the local population start coming forward with information on the bad guys thats not winning their hearts and minds.
It's funny that just as it was with Vietnam, we're kicking the shiite out of them militarily, but we're actually losing the war in terms of public opinion. Amazing.
Since the Army has other stockpiled ammunition, "by no means, under any circumstances should a round (from Israel) be utilized,"
Possible this would enrage the local resistance, cartoons do, but the position would be a lot more credible if the issue has been raised by the military rather than two anti-war congressmen.
There was some sort of dust-up with muslims and redcoats in India a long time ago, wasn't there, over paper cartridges (that you had to bite) lubricated with pork fat, so that native troops rebelled?
You may have a point.
Stamp a Star of David on every bullet used to take out a Muslim fanatic.
Abercrombie, a real whacko BTW, should know that the Middle East conspiracy theorist will ASSUME that we are using Israeli ammo whether or not we actually do. We get no credit for restraint.
Once the 'training ammo' gets distributed, nobody is going to look closely when they are loading their magazines. Just plain stupid.
I'm sorry you chose to overlook my point and change the subject.
the old as islam adage "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is in effect. When its over, they will again be just another neighborhood of arab muslims, and proceed as such.
There is no "winning the hearts and minds".....they are simply being pragmatic right now.
Leave it to a Dim and a RINO to get their drawers in a knot about making sure that we don't use any Israeli-made anything in combat with terrorists! Just when you think it can't get more ridiculous........Wouldn't want to "offend" "precious muslim sensitivities" (GAG!) by using anything that might have been made by Israel! It might make the terrorists get real mad at us! FEH!
These "elected" representatives need to be retired and replaced by servicemen who have had to face death to protect the sorry butts of the Abercrummys of the country.
You are wishing away Israel by suggesting that it is better that US (and British) soldiers die from lack of inadequate ammunition than that they shoot Muslims with bullets manufactured in the Jewish state.
I accept that this is the Eurabian way, but that is not how we view the world from the vantage point of the United States.
we should coat our small arms projectiles with the fat of abercrombie and nadler!
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