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To: sonofstrangelove

Wait a minute. I thought the purpose of going to war was to kill people and break things. That’s the unofficial motto of the US Marine Corps, isn’t it? I thought we were supposed to maximize enemy deaths, not minimize them. What am I missing here?


4 posted on 07/17/2010 9:44:59 PM PDT by ottbmare (I could agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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To: ottbmare

It’s very obvious. There is no goal here, unless it’s that nonsense about making Afghanistan into a Western style democracy. Fat chance. So, we keep on keeping on in an exercise in futility. Nobody seems to know what is going on or how it will end.


12 posted on 07/17/2010 9:50:50 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: ottbmare

going to war was to kill people and break things

I learned that from Rush and that is why we don’t win wars anymore


13 posted on 07/17/2010 9:51:08 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))
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To: ottbmare
I thought we were supposed to maximize enemy deaths, not minimize them. What am I missing here?

click here

32 posted on 07/17/2010 10:12:41 PM PDT by PROCON (Independence Day + 13, Let's see how long it lasts!)
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To: ottbmare

You are missing the fact that Afghanistan was a shell game war set up by Dear Leader Obozo to convince the Left he was the anti-Busch candidate because he was against the Iraq War and FOR the Afghan one; therefore he was not a weenie, but a tough guy. But just to make sure there is that deadline for pulling out to keep the Lefties happy and the rest of us bedazzled. Get it?


33 posted on 07/17/2010 10:12:41 PM PDT by pankot
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To: ottbmare

Active denial system ha?How about a neutron bomb activation?Now that would be a real active,Not to mention radio active denial system.

The one thing about it though is it will work and your enemies will not be soon returning.


50 posted on 07/18/2010 4:35:55 AM PDT by puppypusher
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To: ottbmare
Wait a minute. I thought the purpose of going to war was to kill people and break things. That’s the unofficial motto of the US Marine Corps, isn’t it? I thought we were supposed to maximize enemy deaths, not minimize them. What am I missing here?

Killing unarmed civilians is generally frowned upon in modern warfare, even when those civilians might be sympathetic to the enemy. When we have an enemy that routinely uses such civilians as human shields, I can see why a device like this might be useful.
59 posted on 07/18/2010 12:17:39 PM PDT by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: ottbmare
Wait a minute. I thought the purpose of going to war was to kill people and break things.

Once delivered to the theater, am sure a few good troops will figure how to hook it up in series to a few hundred batteries for "enhanced" capabilities.

:-)

72 posted on 07/18/2010 2:56:12 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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