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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Zuowan, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 0:15,
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