View Single Post
  #20 (permalink)  
Old 04-14-2008
Stapo's Avatar
Stapo Stapo is offline
Joint Chiefs of Staff Member

 
Member Since: Jun 2004
Location: Germany
Posts: 1,460

Germany     European_Union

Re: Surprising ratio of losses in Iraq

Quote:
Originally Posted by Wisdom_Seeker View Post
Interesting topic you raised..
Agreed! I believe the public should know more about what is acctually going on over there.

For example; Does anyone know, how much US-military equipment has been demaged or destroyed in Iraq until now??

Quote:
Originally Posted by Wisdom_Seeker View Post
I have seen Iraqi Resistance videos in Arabic with English Subtitles, they have Media Departments, Planning Departments, research and espionage branch, they have very strong secret services.
Well don't know whether this is really true for most of the Iraqi insurgent-groups.



Quote:
Originally Posted by Wisdom_Seeker View Post
Whats an average American soldier fighting for? For his country's freedom? His country is not threatened and is not under attack. So for what? for the money? For a greencard? If soldiers are not with it mentally, that will pave the road to failure. .
I think your characterization of US-soldiers lacks a hell lot of balance and understanding. Whatever the motivation to join the military might have been (money, patriotism, personal life-task), over there in Iraq it doesn't matter anymore. There they just have to do their job and somehow I don't believe that rather political/ philosophical questions like "Whats an average American soldier fighting for?" cross their mind that often.
It's just an useless waste of time/energy, as no matter what the individual answer might be, the next second the job continues.
Reply With Quote