Well, about that winning hearts and minds thing in Astan

[Soapy]

War on drugs ?

Anyway, ever notice that the countries we don't invade or bomb tend to be good at cricket ?

I've always found that salient, and I fucking hate cricket!!

[callmeslick]

War on drugs ?

Anyway, ever notice that the countries we don't invade or bomb tend to be good at cricket ?

I've always found that salient, and I fucking hate cricket!!

never thought about that angle.......I can't say I hate cricket, just have never closely followed a sport that takes a week to play a single game.

[Soapy]

Actually, Chess too. We don't war on chess playing countries either. Russia used to be good at it though and the last great Chinese Chess player was shot for "fools mate" !!!

Peace in our time might come from organising a huge game of speed tiddley winks ( I'll take my Nobel prize now thanks )

[Darkhorse]

before moving to Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda was in Sudan, then, briefly, Yemen. After we attacked Afghanistan, they moved to friendly turf in Pakistan. This can keep up for years, and us hanging around pissing off the locals in Afghanistan does little to change things.

Again, what other course is there?
We can stop fighting them offensively and wait to be attacked. Do you think this is just going to go away once we leave Afghanistan? Do you think Obama can make this all better and we will never have a problem? Seriously, I would like to know how you think this should be played out?

[fatman]

Anyway, ever notice that the countries we don't invade or bomb tend to be good at cricket ?

Two words dude Canada, Scotland

[fatman]

As for ROEs they will never supersede the Uniformed Code of Military Justice.

Glad you touched on this but because there have been many cases of soldiers found in violation and the book has been thrown at them just a quick google search can bring them up

[callmeslick]

Anyway, ever notice that the countries we don't invade or bomb tend to be good at cricket ?

Two words dude Canada, Scotland

perhaps, we're merely avoiding places with bad food.....

[Darkhorse]

For any of you that might be interested I found an article that discusses the Afghanistan issue, a very good read.
http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryRev ... art014.pdf

[fatman]

Anyway, ever notice that the countries we don't invade or bomb tend to be good at cricket ?

Two words dude Canada, Scotland

perhaps, we're merely avoiding places with bad food.....

I dunno dude Canada seems to have something going for it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine

[Reservoir_Dog]

I dunno dude Canada seems to have something going for it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine

Poutine is da fuckin' bom !!!!