"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not your enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat." -Sun Tzu
Knowing what the enemy thinks and feels is essential to winning a war. "I don't give a damn" bravado does not. I don't mean to sound like I'm picking on you, but you need to understand that our behavior helps to determine how the enemy will act. National mourning over a single soldier makes us look like a bunch of pantywaists. While we shouldn't seek death for our soldiers, deaths happen in war. Those who put all of life on hold for a single man cannot win a war, or so it looks to their enemies. This one death cannot consume our national attention. We will lose this war if we cannot cope with combat deaths.
Are you Taliban?? Because you just don't get it!! And you sound like coward. (Your words are cowardly) Look up "coward" in the dictionary.
BTW,.. we will win against the Al Queda and Taliban. I have faith in our troops and President. You might do well to do the same!
I can assure you that the troops NOT ON THE FRONT LINES are mourning the loss of a fellow Soldier. And you know what?? The troops on the front lines have the strength and ability to set his death aside and continue to do thier jobs. They will mourn him in due time, when their job is done. When they aren't busy getting the enemy.. they will mourn him.
See the difference is they are on the front lines we are not. We HONOR our soldiers and agenst lives here in the USA. It doesn't make us weaker...as you seem to think, but stronger...
Maybe someday you will "get it". But after reading so many frantic paranoid posts on this thread by you..I won't hold my breath!
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not your enemy, for every victory gained you will also uffer a defeat." -Sun Tzu
Knowing what the enemy thinks and feels is essential to winning a war. "I don't give a damn" bravado does not. I don't mean to sound like I'm picking on you, but you need to understand that our behavior helps to determine how the enemy will act. National mourning over a single soldier makes us look like a bunch of pantywaists. While we shouldn't seek death for our soldiers, deaths happen in war. Those who put all of life on hold for a single man cannot win a war, or so it looks to their enemies. This one death cannot consume our national attention. We will lose this war if we cannot cope with combat deaths.
I think the issue you are addressing is a built-in media bias which is yet ANOTHER fight, separate from the War on
Terrorism. . .
While I heartily agree with - and live by the first rule of war: "know thine enemy"
WE WILL NOT CHANGE OUR BEHAVIOUR AS A NATION, AS A PEOPLE, AS A CULTURE TO FIT THE "SENSIBILITIES" OF SOME GOOFBALL WHO WANTS TO KILL US. THAT IS A FORM OF SURRENDER.
THAT IS NOT "KNOWING YOUR ENEMY."
I agree with you. This obsession with someone getting injured or one death in a war is not a sign of strength on our part. Indeed, I've seen foreign press question our resolve, and say we were "lucky" this time to have ready-made foreign soldiers do our fighting. Indeed, Osama and his cohorts often talked about American's obsession with a few deaths, for example Somalia, and equated it with weakness and an implicit invitation to be attacked.