Regarding Covid

[FireFighterZero]

Rules of engagement have changed since WWII. Back in the day, you cleared towns from the air. Now, everyone gets excited about "civilian casualties".

It was never very effective.

 

[gf beranek]

collateral damage or "oops"

 

[FireFighterZero]

collateral damage or "oops"

We killed over a million Iraqis.

Never seems to dull their will to fight.

 

[Jomo]

Reminds me of Teddy Roosevelt's Moto of walk softly but carry a big stick, being superseded by, carry the biggest stick, but only use it when absolutely warranted.

Who was it that said, beware foreign entanglements?

Dwight D. Leaving office..........

Jomo

 

[gf beranek]

"I like Ike" He was a smart man in more ways than one.

Bush? not so smart. The media called his pounding of Bagdad "Shock and Awe! They'll surrender with open arms".

 

[FireFighterZero]

Frigging Ike sold our souls to big oil and the Middle East.

Piss on him.

 

[Grnjp]

Frigging Ike sold our souls to big oil and the Middle East.

Piss on him.

The country was sold before him, he just kept the ride going!

 

[treesmith]

Yep. Voting is the elites’ way of making the sheep think they’re calling the shots…

 

[stig]

Pretty silly thing to say about "standing up to a superior military power".

I suppose you believe the USA had complete victory against Iraq and Afghanistan eh?

Buncha goat humpers with ak-47s and IEDs.

Not very effective at all....

Of course there is no difference between a bunch of city flks, who basically hadn't fought since the Diaspora, and a bunch of mountain tribes, who have spent the last 4 centuries fighting foreigners, each other and in fact, anything that moved.

Obviously not..
My bad.

 

[cory]

Of course there is no difference between a bunch of city flks, who basically hadn't fought since the Diaspora, and a bunch of mountain tribes, who have spent the last 4 centuries fighting foreigners, each other and in fact, anything that moved.

I liked that perspective, Stig!

Fwiw, re the OP:

 

[treesmith]

@stig

So Sam Colt DIDN’T make all men equal…he just enabled Alec Baldwin to whack someone indiscriminately….noted.

 

[Mellow]

Only three more variants till Christmas!

 

[treesmith]

Are they going to name one after Joe? Or Fauci? Klaus Schwab?

 

[FireFighterZero]

City folks?

Sheesh.

Yeah...those Iraqi shop owners and such were real steeped in Sun Tzu.



So what next?


I suppose all the resistance fighters came from the country?

 

[FireFighterZero]

The "constant war" theory in the Middle East is bullshit.

They are pretty peaceful until our oil companies decide to give them some democracy.

 

[treesmith]

The main reason the North won the Civil war was that they were better supplied…and were willing to fight dirty. Should there ever be another (I doubt there will be), the outcome would be quite different, I suspect.

 

[stig]

So the battles of the Khyber pass and Ali Masjid were about oil.
News to me.

 

[murphy4trees]

 

[treesmith]

Oh well…my property will become “common property” when Klaus Schwab comes to my house and TAKES it…

 

[FireFighterZero]

So the battles of the Khyber pass and Ali Masjid were about oil.
News to me.

Uhh...what do you think we are over there for?

Their televisions?

 

[stig]

You said they were actually a pretty peaceul bunch, till your oil companies frigged it up.

At the time of those battles, oil was something you got by wringing a whale.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Who were the main aggressors?

Who have they always been?

We have always been looking for natural resources and how to control them.

You don't even mention Afghanistan when you discuss the Great Game.

 

[treesmith]

You said they were actually a pretty peaceul bunch, till your oil companies frigged it up.

At the time of those battles, oil was something you got by wringing a whale.

I didn’t know they had whales in the Middle East! Somehow I thought goats and camels were their primary livestock. 😆 Silly me!

 

[stig]

Crude oil wasn't refined till mid 1800.

So what oil companies were responsible for the Afghans being war like earlier than that was my point.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Crude oil wasn't refined till mid 1800.

So what oil companies were responsible for the Afghans being war like earlier than that was my point.

It was a silly point.

Afghanistan has raw materials and access to trade routes.