#1 2010-07-18 16:03:40
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#2 2010-07-18 16:47:32
Gurkhas. Gotta love 'em.
I suggest we retry the US methods of pacification used in the Southern Philippines in the early part of the last century. Worked a charm.
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#3 2010-07-18 16:53:44
I have respect for those crazy fuckers. It's very similar to the respect I have for ROK soldiers.
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#4 2010-07-18 20:49:20
I prefer the Jack Bauer method myself.
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#5 2010-07-18 21:29:07
fortinbras wrote:
I prefer...
Reality versus some media?
What works for you?
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#6 2010-07-19 01:19:58
We should be aerial spraying Taliban camps, forts and positions with pig blood in order to demoralize them.
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#7 2010-07-19 01:43:27
fnord wrote:
We should be aerial spraying Taliban camps, forts and positions with pig blood in order to demoralize them.
Nah, just fight the old style - driving the populace before a relentless war machine; to succeed you must defeat the populace - defeat all of them.
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#8 2010-07-19 01:48:53
Emmeran wrote:
fnord wrote:
We should be aerial spraying Taliban camps, forts and positions with pig blood in order to demoralize them.
Nah, just fight the old style - driving the populace before a relentless war machine; to succeed you must defeat the populace - defeat all of them.
Erm... hasn't worked before with the local populace, won't work now.
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#9 2010-07-19 01:53:47
To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
just sayin'
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#10 2010-07-19 04:22:02
what's the connection with shorts?
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#11 2010-07-19 09:42:29
Dmtdust wrote:
Emmeran wrote:
fnord wrote:
We should be aerial spraying Taliban camps, forts and positions with pig blood in order to demoralize them.
Nah, just fight the old style - driving the populace before a relentless war machine; to succeed you must defeat the populace - defeat all of them.
Erm... hasn't worked before with the local populace, won't work now.
You don't understand the situation; if the local populace is dead or displaced it always works. You just can't get all queezy about a little spilt blood.
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#12 2010-07-19 12:18:53
Not one foreign army has ever held Afghanistan since before Alexander. The Pashtuns have held that area for over 3500 years. The Nato forces are a blip.
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#13 2010-07-19 13:12:32
Give them cable TV & Monster Truck rallies, that will pacifiy them within three months
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#14 2010-07-19 13:26:01
Emmeran wrote:
Give them cable TV & Monster Truck rallies, that will pacifiy them within three months
Now that was clever!
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