Re: Corps to use more lethal ammo in Afghanistan
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: eleaf</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: smithc6</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You dont think that putting a fear into the enemy that dealt with their sense of inner drive would stop some of them from wanting to fight? You cant honestly believe that. Maybe the use of pork and muslimism isnt the best scenario...but ive got to believe if youre fighting an enemy using mentally degrading tactics, you would get them to think twice.
to an extent I think youre right as it would make some want to fight even harder, thats why they hate us...for our way of life. But I also think that some would be terrified of not having their promised afterlife and would give up completely as their death would be in veign. </div></div>
Nah.
And saying that their motives are simply that "they hate our way of life" is very simplistic. They know nothing of our way of life as surely as I have no clue what it is to live in a shithole house,in a shithole village in the middle of fucking nowhere Afghanistan.
Though the terrorists that have been marketed to us as the instigators of aggression are the delusional nutfucks we think they are (the Bin Laden's of the world), your average Afghan fighter (we'll call him Josef the shit digger) very likely has no meaningful affiliations with that same ideology other than it gives them the opportunity to strike out at an invading force. I can't necessarily say that I hate the Chinese and their way of life, but I can say for certain that I would hate them for sure if they showed up on American shores (and I can guarantee you 100% that I am more informed about China than your average rural Afghan is about America). Though it may seem unthinkable to us, those in the middle east do have valid reasons for grievance. We have been concerned only with draining their natural resources for our own benefit, and interested in giving nothing back for decades. They are impoverished, and we actively exploit that. There is a real reason it's not that hard to recruit youngsters in a mosque, and it's not as simple as "they hate us." That's what we tell ourselves to resolve ourselves of blame.
I'm not trying to justify terrorist actions, but to lop every single fighter in with the Bin Laden's of the war, of which there are many, is greatly oversimplifying a very complex problem with which we are very much intertwined.
And no, I have no doubt that running bullets through pork fat prior to shooting them will do absolutely nothing to halt the enemy's will to fight. They have been in 2 very long engagements with both the USSR and now the Americans, arguably the 2 largest and most powerful militaries in the world (of course when the USSR was the USSR). They are hardened warriors, not your run of the mill muslim extremest we've been led to believe all of the resistance is. </div></div>
Well written, and that does make me think a bit about things. But I still think there is something to mental warfare youre not acknowledging...breaking the mind breaks the will to fight.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: eleaf</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: smithc6</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You dont think that putting a fear into the enemy that dealt with their sense of inner drive would stop some of them from wanting to fight? You cant honestly believe that. Maybe the use of pork and muslimism isnt the best scenario...but ive got to believe if youre fighting an enemy using mentally degrading tactics, you would get them to think twice.
to an extent I think youre right as it would make some want to fight even harder, thats why they hate us...for our way of life. But I also think that some would be terrified of not having their promised afterlife and would give up completely as their death would be in veign. </div></div>
Nah.
And saying that their motives are simply that "they hate our way of life" is very simplistic. They know nothing of our way of life as surely as I have no clue what it is to live in a shithole house,in a shithole village in the middle of fucking nowhere Afghanistan.
Though the terrorists that have been marketed to us as the instigators of aggression are the delusional nutfucks we think they are (the Bin Laden's of the world), your average Afghan fighter (we'll call him Josef the shit digger) very likely has no meaningful affiliations with that same ideology other than it gives them the opportunity to strike out at an invading force. I can't necessarily say that I hate the Chinese and their way of life, but I can say for certain that I would hate them for sure if they showed up on American shores (and I can guarantee you 100% that I am more informed about China than your average rural Afghan is about America). Though it may seem unthinkable to us, those in the middle east do have valid reasons for grievance. We have been concerned only with draining their natural resources for our own benefit, and interested in giving nothing back for decades. They are impoverished, and we actively exploit that. There is a real reason it's not that hard to recruit youngsters in a mosque, and it's not as simple as "they hate us." That's what we tell ourselves to resolve ourselves of blame.
I'm not trying to justify terrorist actions, but to lop every single fighter in with the Bin Laden's of the war, of which there are many, is greatly oversimplifying a very complex problem with which we are very much intertwined.
And no, I have no doubt that running bullets through pork fat prior to shooting them will do absolutely nothing to halt the enemy's will to fight. They have been in 2 very long engagements with both the USSR and now the Americans, arguably the 2 largest and most powerful militaries in the world (of course when the USSR was the USSR). They are hardened warriors, not your run of the mill muslim extremest we've been led to believe all of the resistance is. </div></div>
Well written, and that does make me think a bit about things. But I still think there is something to mental warfare youre not acknowledging...breaking the mind breaks the will to fight.