Karnal wrote on Nov 18
th, 2015 at 7:29pm:
The Russians failed badly in Afghanistan, just as Uncle failed badly in Vietnam.
This is the lesson of the late 20th century: conventional forces can’t defeat guerilla forces.
They can, but it all depends on the politicians back home taking the brakes off political correctness and the Marquis of Queensbury rules. Vietnam and Iraq had swarms of Western Leftwing journalists trawling these countries for anti-US and anti-Western atrocity stories. Beat-ups were the currency of the day. The Guardian, the ABC, The Sydney Morning Herald and others pleaded with their journalists to send footage that would throw the worst possible light on the allied troops.
And they obliged in spades.
These journalists have yet to be brought to justice.
Karnal wrote on Nov 18
th, 2015 at 7:29pm:
Here, Russia conquered Germany and the US got Japan.
Rabid nonsense, of course, but being an anti-Western Lefty I'm quite sure you cherish that myth as no doubt you also cherish the prospect of Western civilisation being trodden underfoot in Europe by the Mohammedans.
It was the relentless day-and-night bombing of Germany by the US and the Brits that gutted the arms factories, the transportation networks (Dresden was an important hub), and laid waste to much of Germany that allowed the Russians a fairly easy advance into the heartland and finally Berlin.
Karnal wrote on Nov 18
th, 2015 at 7:29pm:
John Wayne is dead, Herb. Modern war is about commitment, agility, but most importantly, politics. Brute force no longer cuts it.
The Politics of The Willing - yes, I'll agree with that. If this Paris incident has proven anything, it's that the French leadership has until now been practicing the Politics of The Unwilling while mouthing assurances to their citizens.
Hollande nearly got his arse burnt - and as I've said time and time again - until politicians themselves are put in danger their efforts will remain half-hearted and full of apologist platitudes and rhetoric just as Turnbull has excelled at since this Paris bombing.
I'm wondering if there are many hijabs being worn in Paris lately, and are they still having those prayer meetings in the streets?
I don't know what you're smoking nowadays, but you might think of using a filter or suckng through cleansing water in a hookah pipe apparatus. (Consult Marla for the details).
Yes, Herbie, they said all this in WWI. We just need more resolve, more courage. Stiff upper lip, what.
And yet, no matter how many men you sent into the machine guns, the lines never changed.
We’ve now been fighting the war on terror in one form or another for three times the duration of the war to end all wars.
And yet, we’ve achieved nothing.
This isn’t the failure of the rules, it’s the failure of war itself. We dropped more TNT on Indochina than was used by both sides in WWII. If you think this is restraint or some form of PC enemy-appeasing, you must be shell shocked.
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