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The Poms who stood by the Poles in WW2 [156]
Let's just face it, Scrappy, the UK and US are pathetic warmongers.
Well, we're both pretty much broke and nothing stops the warmongering like no money. Obama is being told by his own party he will have to raise some tax to pay for 40,000 addlt troops he wants put into Afghan. A surge worked in Iraq for the most part, this might actually be effective. Here again, if I was G. Britain, I'd just leave now. You'll at least save face with the EU.
However, the taliban aren't an army per se.. all this talk about you got defeated and humiliated, blah blah.. Excuse me? These dizzy bastards pop in an out of caves like a gopher does his hole. They look the same as the rest of the population. <<shrugs>> what do you expect? They're still stuck in the 14th century mentally. How would one even measure success there?
Yes lot's of French civilian casualties.. however Eastern front had around 13 million civilians killed. But yeah, sure the US will pay for those sins eventually, it all comes around eventually. That's why so many are preaching isolationism now.