Quote Originally Posted by Limited View Post
No, thats why I said UK. I have no idea about other countries.

Its widely known that if all else fails, you can join the army. Its the place where rejects can go. I understand there are a few decent people, but the amount of chavs and thugs that join. The amount of times I spent telling my classmates they need to buck up and do their work, and they replied, "screw school, I'm joining the army anyways".
Wrong.

That's not right at all, some people just want to do something with their lives, others might want to serve their country and others, such as myself, might be having trouble finding employment with today's economic crisis.

I have been a Reservist since May 20, 2008, and everything I've learned in the Army has been crazy, to call a Soldier a reject is a straight up insult, we need to be trained - you don't give someone a rifle and ship them overseas. There are guys at my unit that know and understand what they have to do whereas there are civvies I know that I wouldn't trust with a fucking broomstick, let alone a rifle.

Quote Originally Posted by Mass View Post
Afghanistan would fall into the category of clearly impossible conflicts, I mean, you can't honestly think it's possible to successfully occupy Afghanistan. We're no more powerful in a relative sense than the Soviets, English, Mongols, and Greeks were. Forcing the Taliban to seek haven in a nuclear armed country and throwing out the guys that kept heroin from being produced by the fuckton does not sum up to a "legit" war. Besides, it's also a mess of the United States' own creation what with the fact that we formerly supplied the people we are fighting.

We can drive over bombs and use robots to shoot what might as well be great briefcases of cash at cave entrances for years and years and never gain an inch of anything valuable.
I agree.

While the Taliban are the lowest form of life on the planet, we, nor anybody else have the right to invade. What right does America have to invade another country and start a pointless war? Nothing. America are no different than any other country on the planet. The entire occupation was a mistake, there are no WMD, just oil, a bunch of terrorists and a country that's worse now than when it was before.

How do you defeat an enemy that fears God more than he fears you?

The answer is you can't.