rgraham666
Literotica Guru
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2004
- Posts
- 43,689
It was our turn yesterday
- Thread starter rgraham666
- Start date
dysphemist
Literotica Guru
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2005
- Posts
- 4,504
rgraham666 said:
Unfortunately it was bound to happen. It's amazing it has not happened before now.
G
Guest
Guest
The world does not have enough flowers for the fallen soliders....
rgraham666
Literotica Guru
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2004
- Posts
- 43,689
Thanks dysphemist, Lizzy.
We're lucky such things rarely happen here.
But the body count in the rest of the world is 1,000 combatants and 5,000 civilians every day.
That doesn't include massacres like Rwanda and Cambodia. And that's been going on since the '70s at least, probably since the end of WWII.
We just happen to rarely notice because it rarely gets reported here.
Sigh.
We're lucky such things rarely happen here.
But the body count in the rest of the world is 1,000 combatants and 5,000 civilians every day.
That doesn't include massacres like Rwanda and Cambodia. And that's been going on since the '70s at least, probably since the end of WWII.
We just happen to rarely notice because it rarely gets reported here.
Sigh.
lucky-E-leven
Aphrodisiaddict
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2004
- Posts
- 17,241
I'm a bit baffled as to why there is so little coverage for such things. American soldiers are dropping like flies recently. A University friend of mine's husband is an officer in the Army and he has been in Iraq for two months now. This is his second deployment and he told her that in the two months he's been there this go 'round they've lost more soldiers already than the entire year he was deployed there last time ... and he was there during the first big push of the war. WTF?
He says the terrorists/insurgents there are adapting quickly and getting smarter. They're learning how to make trash-bombs (as he called them) and taking any openings they can get to use them. According to my friend's husband, the situation is more dangerous there now than at any time during the occupation thus far, and he doesn't have much hope for it improving.
He says the terrorists/insurgents there are adapting quickly and getting smarter. They're learning how to make trash-bombs (as he called them) and taking any openings they can get to use them. According to my friend's husband, the situation is more dangerous there now than at any time during the occupation thus far, and he doesn't have much hope for it improving.
Selena_Kitt
Disappearing
- Joined
- Jan 25, 2004
- Posts
- 12,336
It's really been going on since time in memoriam... we have just found better, more efficient ways of killing each other...
rarely in history has a nation felt as "safe" as we do... it breeds complacency... the national psyche has already "forgotten" 9/11... we don't live in fear for our lives or our children's lives every day (at least, most of those with Internet access don't... there are places in the US where people do...) some of it has to do with the consumer culture, I think... we become numbed to what is really happening around us because we are focused on all of the things we don't have, and more importantly, wanting all of those things that we're "programmed" to want...
Colleen Thomas
Ultrafemme
- Joined
- Feb 11, 2002
- Posts
- 21,545
lucky-E-leven said:
First my consdolences and a
In answer to your question lucky, an occupation is almost always more costly in lives than the actual war that lead to it. During combat, troops travel in groups often in armored vehicles, stay close to each other, have artillery and close air support on call and are relatively, pretty safe. During occupation operations they are isolated, outside their armor and in urban settings cannot call on artillery and CAS. Occupation also takes inordinatly more time exposing troops to a lower grade threat for a longer period than combat operations where the threat is likely to be extreme but very short term.
