[bert]

Your observation is irrelevant. The Afghanistan situation is unrelated to any of those you mentioned. And for the record we still occupy Germany Italy and Japan We have major forces in Korea still. We also have forces in Iraq

The battle is against radical Islam and the battlefield of choice by both sides is Afghanistan.

There are people on this forum who have become liberal pacifists just like they did in the early 70’s. Pacifism kills.

[rlferny]

“There are people on this forum who have become liberal pacifists just like they did in the early 70’s”

Sorry there bud but I have three (3) sons that have been in this conflict so pacifist I am not. But when your enemy points an RPG at you and you can’t shoot them - there is something very wrong.

[Alberta's Child]

LOL -- you must be kidding.

Unlike the situation in Afghanistan, the U.S. laid waste to the Axis powers in World War II and reduced much of their landscape to rubble before occupying them. That's why you didn't have this kind of sh!t going on nearly ten 'effing years after the war against those nations started.

The battle is against radical Islam and the battlefield of choice by both sides is Afghanistan.

The radical Muslims in the royal family of Saudi Arabia -- who continue to rule with the support and protection of the United States government -- thanks you for fixing your gaze on that 6th Century sh!t-hole known as Afghanistan.

[Minus_The_Bear]

There is nothing liberal or pacifist about wanting to actually win the war we are fighting.

Our troops have their hands tied behind their backs with the current ROE.

If we don't have a actual objective other than helping a bunch of goat herders. We need to move on.

[rlferny]

I say turn that he11 hole into glass. How is that for pacifism!

[MestaMachine]

You are wrong.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks bert and GenXteacher.

• Chinook tragedy:
  Taliban acquisition of night vision technology probed
  [more acts of war by Iran?]
• The Gulf Wars in Hindsight

[juliej]

I mostly agree with you. But this an enemy like no other. He engages in terrorism as his weapon of choice. I think we should carpet bomb them, kill their leaders, drop bibles over them, and leave.

[Stolly]

The US has forces stationed in Germany and Japan, but the US does not occupy either place. It does not in any fashion get involved in how the civilians run those countries, and is not the occupying power.

Its an important difference.