[trebb]

This is full of hyperbole, just utter nonsense.

Easy to state an opinion - takes a few more cells to back it up. Kindly share your wisdom with us so we don't keep following the "idiot" who writes this stuff. Or better yet, start writing your own versions of whatever he puts out so we can compare notes.

[Future Snake Eater]

He presents an image of the military that fits with a few loose stories here and there that you all want to believe simply b/c Obama is in charge. Fags still have to pull their weight. Chicks are in for a rude surprise. The yammering about how our Soldiers behave in Iraq and Afghanistan is obviously taking briefings from the field grade princes and flag officers in BIAP and BAF and applying it to the trigger-pullers on patrol. I doubt they would've approved of some of my Soldiers beating the crap out of a couple of dudes they found in an alley in Mosul getting it on one night, but they did. Oh well.

Few here seem to understand that we're not automatons. We receive a mission, we make a plan, we execute it. As long as it's within the framework of the commander's intent, we have broad latitude to accomplish the mission. Sometimes people get killed in those missions. It's been that way for millenia. Soldiering is a dangerous job. To denigrate these particular deaths as being for some "international humanitarian" purpose as opposed to Soldiers executing a specific tactical mission and receiving enemy contact in the course of it is just stupid. Especially since it's born of a hatred of the CinC and his buddies.