Posted on 10/11/2010 3:42:06 PM PDT by earlJam
So Cameron criticised a few aspects of American foreign policy, and that makes him anti-american? Your threshold for what constitutes ‘anti-americanism’ is shockingly low. It sounds like anything that falls short of a kind of religious devotion to America’s god-like infallibility makes one an enemy of the US...
Good point. The blood is on the Taliban's hands.
Having said that, however, it's a ridiculous thing to happen when attempting a hostage rescue.
The rescue team is concerned enough about the kidnappers killing the hostage, and then they go and kill her themselves?!
Just damn...
Piss Off.
I’m sure they didn’t do it on purpose...
On each of my deployments to the Middle East I told my wife that if taken hostage I wanted the US to rescue me with a Daisy Cutter or B-52 strike to insure my captors were killed.
Ouch! Brilliant. Can't argue with that. I bow most humbly to your superior wisdom and articulation...
You don’t know what you’re talking about.
“Having said that, however, it’s a ridiculous thing to happen when attempting a hostage rescue.”
Really? I supposed you are a member of something like HRT or a seal or something.
They went up against madmen who are eager to die for their cause. Do you even have a concept how difficult these things are?
If you want to remain here, and attack coservative values on a conserative site, then you will be most welcome to a zot.
Quote” Your post” #41, this thread:
“It sounds like anything that falls short of a kind of religious devotion to America’s god-like infallibility makes one an enemy of the US...”
That offends all of our sevicemen and veterans on this site, including the founder Jim Robinson, who is a decorated US Navy Veteran. So you owe me and all FREEPERS an apology.Why would loyalty to our nation and to the constitution generate such a gratuitous negative comment
about patriotism?
You asked why Prime Minister Cameron was anti American. I showed you numerous articles but your trollie liberal leftist thinking got in the way. Off with you troll. Good riddance.
Adios.
Now you do.
Thanks for the information.
What actually happened doesn’t matter, it’s the headline. Woman may have been killed by US troops. They’re trying to discredit our troops, with no solid evidence yet. Besides didn’t the Taliban kill some aid workers recently?
Maybe our troops should just start letting these workers fend for themselves.
So what is Cameron saying? The spec ops shouldn’t have gone in and tried resuing? If whe ended up in pakistan she would have been dead anyway...screw this madness, those men did their darndest, whay even bring this SH*T up? What good does it do?
Family members deserve to know how she died. Was she raped? Was she tortured? What were her last minutes like?
Family members deserve to know how she died. Was she raped? Was she tortured? What were her last minutes like?
I agree with that earljam, but I don’t agree with spreading doubt on the op. Does it really matter whether the public knows if it was an awry allied grenade or a terror vest? That’s my major question but I agree with you, the parents should know, just delivering this news to the public might not be such a good idea.
There's nothing wrong with an almost religious devotion to America. The citizens of America have more say in their government and more freedom than anywhere else in the world. Why would one not worship the principles of such a country and err on its side when it is attacked?
You sound like a jealous liberal who has gotten nowhere despite the opportunities afforded in this country and resents the greatness of America through the prism of failure.
All you have shown is Cameron mildly criticising aspects of US Foreign Policy. To use this to say he is ‘anti-american’ is ridiculous and I make no apology for saying so. That fact that you have taken what I have said as a grievous attack on American Conservative values just further demonstrates your mypopic view as to what constitutes ‘anti-americanism’...
He knows the score. He knows the risks, but a lot of other people don't. Of course he has to say there will be an enquiry. What else is he supposed to say at a public news conference? What he also said was that he will worry about whether he did the right thing for days and weeks after, because of how it turned out. That's not being anti-american. That's being human. But he also says he stands by the decision to send the troops in.
Of course it is. Everyone in both the US and UK government (and the US and UK military) understands this. There are always risks and never any guarantees with any resort to force. Unfortunately the grieving friends and relatives have, obviously and understandably, an emotional rather than rational reaction to this terrible event. And very contemptously, the cynical sensationalists who run the mass media in both countries are going to use that to advance their own agenda.
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