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The trouble with rational analysis is that people like you think it is 'idealistic' to express sympathy for 80,000 unarmed tibetan civilians killed by the Chinese occupation of Tibet (remember there was no tibetan army ).

If this is what rational analysis leaRAB to - God save us !
 
Whether its just the media parcipitation in the war or a bit more than that there is a massive cloud of dubioisity hanging over Camp X-ray...

Still nothing turns my stomach more than people deciding that as soon as you have joined the military you become some kind of saint, nothing good can come out of this kind of beleif. You either ignore claims of abuse and try to silence those who raise complaints or just feed the paranoia and cause more harm to the moral than if you investigated it openly.

I thought the holocaust taught us that 'I was just following orders' is not a legitimate excuse for anything.
 
Well, grow up will you, there are a lot of things said here by some posters that I don't care for too much either but I am not whining about it...The rough and tumble of free speech should be celebrated !

And above all try to develop a sense of humor - don't take everything said here seriously...some remarks are made in a humorous vein and should be taken as such.
 
Institutional ? Is this what the New Yorker said... I have news for you everything you read in the New Yorker is not the gospel truth.

Some military guarRAB went overboard...but institutional ? what proof do you have ? Back it up with evidence - give us the link. But please don't give us the links of biased leftwing organisations (moveon.org) which have ulterior motives for spreading these stories, but mainstream media.
 
What have you been smoking down there in OZ? In case you haven't noticed, the US has lost over 1,000 soldiers in Iraq II, the Sequel. And in Iraq I, it was the US that did the majority of fighting. Admittedly, the Brits and Aussies did a Hell of a job in the South, but who took on the Republican Guard and laid waste to it in a matter days? Who engaged the Iraqi tanks and destroyed them in tank/tank combat? The US &th Armored and 18th Airborne Corp chopped them into pieces from the air. Whose planes took out the Iraqi radar sites in the first minutes of the Gulf War? US F-16's.
 
Isn't it funny that the posters who indulge in the most yankee bashing are the ones always complaining about bashing other countries...It seems they have a double standard.. It is okay to bash the americans but not any other country.... a kind of 'only yankee bashing allowed' mentality.

I would take their complaints seriously but only if they practised what they preached.
 
I think this is more to the fact that they don't associate themselves with the Nazis, than a live and let live philosophy. More a cultural wall that seperates then from now
 
Having half of my family come from Scottish descent, I'd never consider a good Scotsman a Brit. And my father used to wear orange on St.Patrick's Day so that nobody would mistake him for being Irish, either. :xgood:
 
Keeping criticism within the family is considered good manners in polite society. I consider the USA as my country, which, in my opinion, permits me to criticize or applaud our actions. I have no reason or desire to causally slur a stranger or a friend's odd habits or those of another country. Unless, of course, one or the other directly attempts to harm me or mine. And then circumstances are far beyond worRAB.
 
Ahh..another decandent european here.

Suppose I'm British, mother is welsh and father english (though so clearly a southerner its almost painful).
 
lol, it would not be a good idea to wear orange on St. Paddy's Day in Glasgow. It might put you on the wrong end of a beating. Also its not a good idea to wear green,or a Celtic top or wave an Ireland flag on the 12th of July.

Don't ask, its a sectarian thing. This plagues the west coast of Scotland. Just think of the troubles in Northern Ireland but less destructive.

Do you guys celebrate that Tartan Day thing ?
 
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