Posted on 02/22/2007 10:43:36 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
I was playing the Russian Front section of the FPS computer game "Call to Duty" last night...you start out unarmed as a Comrade in the landing craft, listening to the Political Officer tell you how much better armed you are than the Nazi's...then you are issued one gun to every two soldiers and sent up the hill to die by the hundreds while the well-armed Commisars stand at the back preventing your retreat. Ah, the perfect system, where everyone does their part fully because they love the State SOOOO much!
"The multinational force in Iraq should abide strictly by the UN Security Council's mandate, which does not provide for any operations outside the country,"
Not a problem.
That's what the add'l Flat tops in the Arabian gulf are for....
Never played COD, but have been wanting to pick it up. Coworker loves the game.
My point was that Russia gets nervous any time any power gets to near its borders, and it tends to over react as a result. If it is Revolutionary France, Prussia, England, or the US.
To feel the despotic affinity they do not need to have either a common border or a shared history. IIRC, in its day they were standing even by khmer rouge, and were officially proclaiming reports of Cambodian genocide to be "baseless".
"R.I.P. - U.S.A."
I hope and pray I drop dead before that day arrives.
Some of the most impressive lessons I have learned about history were IN FPS's. To go from Joe Hero Marine to powerless, scared Russian plowboy conscript...I'd like to see some of our history professors do it.
and we won't, we'll even pass the plate to make up the change. THEN HELL IS COMIN'
And the Mongols, Tartars, Teutonic Knights, Swedes, Poles, Lithuanians, and Japanese... 'course they've done a little border crossing and border shifting of their own too... .
Thanks for the ping!
Russia- Still evil after all these years.
Whores
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