US commander signals peace talks with Taliban

[Zebo]

Son, i don't have a bloody clue what the fuck you are talking about.

If you could fucking read you would have been able to read that i CAN STOMACH IT but others cannot.

TFB was first in Afghanistan and Iraq, while the US still were waiting us for clearing a way.

We led the way for every single fucking task and you are tellling ME that we are not one of those teams that should be funded because we are a waste?

You are living fucking proof that THC does indeed make people retarded.

FUCK OFF!

You're so fucking stupid you can't even remember shit you say in other threads. Like asking me to come join your fruitless exercise numerous times. How many IED's exploded close to your head? Poor Johnny, I think you need to come home, it's okay to admit severe brain trauma - lots of boys have it thanks to our cream puff generals telling our boys to police a fuckin war zone. I'll pay my taxes to help victims like you but don't call me until you're ready to take no numbers.

 

[Jaskalas]

It occurs to me (and this is pure speculation on my part) that Obama may be planing to withdraw, and "negotiations" are a prequel to declaring victory and leaving. Wouldn't be the first time we've done something like that.

Positive thinking there.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I have to wonder just how gullible Haybasusa Rider is when he seems to think the omly thing the Taliban stands for is. "Tell me, just what do you say to people you know will intentionally be shooting little girls? " Not to say that does not sometimes happen but its incidence is greatly overstated.

I remember hearing stories about Iraqi soldier stealing incubators from Kuwaiti hospitals and tossing new born premature infants out in the process. And after the war we learned it was nothing but a made up pack of lies.

Anytime you have a war and soldier's lives are in great danger, it tends to bring out the psychopaths in human nature. I am sure the Taliban has their more than their share, and as we have learned, so does the US military.

There is that old saying, in any war, the first causality is the truth as we try to demonize
everyone not on our side.

But just try to think a little, if all the Taliban stood for was shooting little girls for sport, there would not be a female alive in the entire country. And that would have been apparent long before 911. And as additional food for thought, when us enlightened Europeans and US citizens were at a equivalent cultural level comparable to Afghanistan today, we treated human females like chattel without legal rights also.

Next- LL makes a case that Bin Laden didn't mean it when the WTC was blown up.

The reason that people get slaughtered is to make a point. If someone is sliced and diced it makes a pretty effective statement of what would happen if there is further resistance.

What's curious is that among all the people here, you are the only apologist for the Taliban. It's like watching someone railing at the Nuremberg trials for being so unfair. After all, it's not like the Taliban wouldn't be much different, and we know how they are demonized.

Their intentional brutality has been well documented over the years, and while you obviously disagree, I called Iraq dead on before, during, and after Bush. I don't swallow the government's line. Gullibility in such matters was something that of necessity I had to lose long ago.

They are a brutal and untrustworthy group. If you wish to make them into the poor misunderstood underdogs, hey be my guest. There is only one around here I can think of which might buy that line. Keep preaching.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

There are things about way you learn serving - and there are things you learn about war that many who serve don't learn. Read a book like Chris Hedges' "War is a force that give us meaning' for an idea of why people go to war, how they react to it, how it affects them that many who are in war don't understand themselves.

Which has absolutely no bearing on the fact that while occasional aberrations occur in any military, that doesn't mean that shoving a barrel into a teens vagina and pulling the trigger are considered an accepted way of controlling a village.