General Music Chat

I'm not hearing anything about a war going on in Afghanistan. Anybody know anything about it? Any drone strikes anywhere? Or is the war, if there is one, being kept a secret?

There is much war. our boys are still getting killed, and killing other folks, all for nothing.

I talked to a guy just back from there recently - he told me the first time he shot a man he had this horrible feeling - "It's his country! What am I doing?" He was a good old boy - he finished his tour and did his duty. But he figured it out. He noted that our boys are getting a bit spaced out and that the doctors hand out pills like candy.

The 'rules of engagement' put our guys in a trick bag. In modern war, if you get the first shot, you have a huge advantage. Our 'rules' give that first shot to the guerrillas. They are still killing regularly with IEDs as well.

The 'enemy' have gotten more aggressive since zero announced our pending withdrawal. Gee, what a surprise. The govt forces (our supposed allies) have killed a lot of our guys recently and we have adopted a whole new training regimen for them - that keeps our guys covered when they have to turn their backs.

Our supply lines are in jeopardy because we regularly kill people in Pakistan with drone strikes - and our supplies come through there. Several times they've been totally blocked. Plus they employ a lot of indigenous drivers who aren't to be trusted.

Several of our men have been court-martialed - one went off and killed a bunch of civilians - some other guys pissed on dead Taliban and are paying the price.

All this for a stinking pipeline.

Talbot

It will continue . . . there is no end . . .

The 'rules of engagement' put our guys in a trick bag. In modern war, if you get the first shot, you have a huge advantage. Our 'rules' give that first shot to the guerrillas. They are still killing regularly with IEDs as well.

The same with the boarder patrols that have to deal with well armed drug smugglers. May as well give our guys one bullet and a revolver and have them play Russian roulette. It is disgusting how the cowards that send our boys in harms way also make sure that the enemy has the upper hand. The cowards sending them to war should be the first on the front lines.

The 'rules of engagement' put our guys in a trick bag. In modern war, if you get the first shot, you have a huge advantage. Our 'rules' give that first shot to the guerrillas. They are still killing regularly with IEDs as well.

The same with the boarder patrols that have to deal with well armed drug smugglers. May as well give our guys one bullet and a revolver and have them play Russian roulette. It is disgusting how the cowards that send our boys in harms way also make sure that the enemy has the upper hand. The cowards sending them to war should be the first on the front lines.

That pretty much sums up the advice given by retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley D. Butler

In his 1935 description of how war is a amoral money making racket enjoyed by unscrupulous investors and bankers, he states ....

"It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nation's manhood can be conscripted. Let the officers and the directors and the high powered executives of our armament factories and our steel companies and our munitions makers and our ship-builders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get"

The 20th century would have seen no wars had that been the case.

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