Thread: Unrest in Iraq, is anyone surprised?

I believe they would teach that consistently if they valued ethics over tactics but they don't. They teach good ethics when it suits the mission.

When I watch Bomb Squad, Afghanistan, I see soldiers handing out candy to the kids and stuff. They say it's about winning the Hearts and Minds, and that's true. For a colonization to be successful, one must win the hearts and minds of the people. That's why one unit is told they need to treat the locals with respect and use only the force necessary and another unit is told that the ends justify the means.

When we colonized the Philippines, in order to get our Pacifists to go along with it, the nation was told it was to bring democracy to the Philippines. This backfired when the Filipinos revolted against the US occupiers in order to reign in an actual democracy rather than simple annexation.

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

When we colonized the Philippines, in order to get our Pacifists to go along with it, the nation was told it was to bring democracy to the Philippines. This backfired when the Filipinos revolted against the US occupiers in order to reign in an actual democracy rather than simple annexation.

Well democracy, Anglo-Saxon decency, and Protestantism. Gotta Christianize those Catholics.

They screwed it up in the first place, why spend money on other people's problems when there is no way to really solve it? They basically went in, shat all over everything, and left it worse than it was.

Originally Posted by mooseantlers

They screwed it up in the first place, why spend money on other people's problems when there is no way to really solve it? They basically went in, shat all over everything, and left it worse than it was.

Yes, I believe the order to invade Iraq and Afghanistan just for revenge isn't right. I do think however we need more Special Recon and Special Op teams to take care of the "big" commanders over there.

I think we need to take care of the big commanders back here

^^ watch Kubrick's Paths of Glory.

Or Dr Strangelove. Hell, watch any Kubrick movie concerned with warfare! It's scary to think about what might really be behind decisions to deploy in the Middle East.