http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/21/of-battle-fatigue-and-national-caveats/ Questions through the veil of ignorance Thu, 17 May 2012 04:17:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/21/of-battle-fatigue-and-national-caveats/comment-page-1/#comment-205390 synova Thu, 22 May 2008 03:24:12 +0000 http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2923#comment-205390 I don't think that anyone really expects Afghanis (or even Iraqis on our side) to display fervor.    Well, maybe some people do, but it's not reasonable, I think.    Sometimes I think that the best thing, and probably the hardest, is for people to get on with making a living.     The thing about the Germans makes me mad.   I suppose I didn't know that in particular but it's no surprise at all that various countries send troops to "help" that can't shoot.   It's not anything new.    (Usually, it's France or the UN, but there you go.)     I wonder how these soldiers feel about that?   So I'm mad *for* them.   And certainly I'm disgusted at their home countries... and that's a pretty inclusive thing.    I'm not impressed by empty words and empty promises and empty gestures.    It's powdering both ends of the baby, or something.    Get the creds for "helping" and get the creds for NOT helping.    Whoo-hoo!    It's moral vacuity to be certain but why don't people making these policies see it?   And why don't they care? I don’t think that anyone really expects Afghanis (or even Iraqis on our side) to display fervor.    Well, maybe some people do, but it’s not reasonable, I think.    Sometimes I think that the best thing, and probably the hardest, is for people to get on with making a living.
 
 
The thing about the Germans makes me mad.   I suppose I didn’t know that in particular but it’s no surprise at all that various countries send troops to “help” that can’t shoot.   It’s not anything new.    (Usually, it’s France or the UN, but there you go.)
 
 
I wonder how these soldiers feel about that?   So I’m mad *for* them.   And certainly I’m disgusted at their home countries… and that’s a pretty inclusive thing.    I’m not impressed by empty words and empty promises and empty gestures.    It’s powdering both ends of the baby, or something.    Get the creds for “helping” and get the creds for NOT helping.    Whoo-hoo!    It’s moral vacuity to be certain but why don’t people making these policies see it?   And why don’t they care?

]]> http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/21/of-battle-fatigue-and-national-caveats/comment-page-1/#comment-205379 Frank_A Thu, 22 May 2008 01:26:32 +0000 http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2923#comment-205379 The German special forces couldn't use...lethal force. I didn't know that. That's...pretty lame. I know the ole Deutchland is trying to get rid of the the Nazi association but this tactic is absurd is almost 99.9% likely to get more innocents killed. The German special forces couldn’t use…lethal force.
I didn’t know that.
That’s…pretty lame.
I know the ole Deutchland is trying to get rid of the the Nazi association but this tactic is absurd is almost 99.9% likely to get more innocents killed.

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