He knows they're not patrolling
he knows the officers aren't leading
and you can safely assume that someone's got multiple alliegances considering the number of attacks carried out with good intelligence and quite often in police uniform; and they're getting those from somewhere.
I'm pretty sure he knows what he's talking about; after all, sounds like he's had enough of it whatever it is.
As for him being a cunt; combat soldiers generally aren't the fluffiest chaps.
Also, considering the continually high number of attacks, bombings, crime, etc. we can also be pretty sure that whatever it was they were doing up until now wasn't working either. It may make it worse, but more of the same won't make things any better. You don't discipline soldiers with hugs and loves; I think they probably needed a dose of that. You can see how ashamed the officers look when he has a go at them, that stands for a lot.
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Yeah, someone may do, but he's just going to really piss off the rest of them.
It's just stupid. This is why armies are no good at governing.
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Zuowan, Wed 4 Mar 2009, 22:50,
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Armies do not Govern
Politician's do, occasionally a High ranking Officer may fill in for a politician whislt the area is unsafe for their fluffly little suit wearing bodies. But combat soldiers fight whom they are told to fight, politics does not come into it. I am slightly fed up of people whom appear to have never served in any of the armed forces making asumptions that we are there to fix everything with a magic wand. Bullets do not fix societies or peoples attitudes, Government can, complaining about armies is just plain old stupid. Complain about the governments instead, I don't come to your work and tell you how to do your bosses bosses bosses bosses job.
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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Wed 4 Mar 2009, 23:46,
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Sure, agreed with you there.
Unfortunately the Bush administration didn't understand (or at least took 5 years to understand) the difference between conquering Iraq and governing it - disbanding the police without anyone to take their place for example, that was a terrible decision.
The guy in the video is doing nothing but making the soldiers hate the US even more. The situation isn't his fault, he's just done what he was told to do, it isn't working, he's getting frustrated. But he's still not handling the situation at all well, and the people he's taking it out on are no more responsible for it than he is.
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