3rd or 4th front? These things are begining to run together

[Strike For The South]

Lessons learned from Afghanistan.

Yea 5,000 bodies and trillions later

What's that old saying about us and doing the right thing after we screw up 1,000000 times?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Yea 5,000 bodies and trillions later

What's that old saying about us and doing the right thing after we screw up 1,000000 times?

Only 5,000?

Small change in a war.

[Strike For The South]

Only 5,000?

Small change in a war.

LOL, I don't know what you're trying to do here but I'm going to please ask you to stop

See no personal attack

I CAN BE MATURE

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

LOL, I don't know what you're trying to do here but I'm going to please ask you to stop

See no personal attack

I CAN BE MATURE

5,000 deaths over eleven years of war, on at least two fronts, is a paltry number. In the 100 hours of Desert Storm the Americans suffered 200 casualties.

While every human life is precious and of equal value a sense of perspective is vital here.

[Greyblades]

"One death is a tradgedy a thousand a statistic"?

[Strike For The South]

5,000 deaths over eleven years of war, on at least two fronts, is a paltry number. In the 100 hours of Desert Storm the Americans suffered 200 casualties.

While every human life is precious and of equal value a sense of perspective is vital here.

Meh, I hold more vaule in human life that didn't need to be wasted

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Meh, I hold more vaule in human life that didn't need to be wasted

I think you're just more sensationalist.

[Strike For The South]

I think you're just more sensationalist.

Because 5,000 is an acceptable # for a war that we have nothing to show for

I think you just like being the stereotypical stiff upper lip

[Jaguara]

Only 5,000?

Small change in a war.

5,000 deaths over eleven years of war, on at least two fronts, is a paltry number. In the 100 hours of Desert Storm the Americans suffered 200 casualties.

While every human life is precious and of equal value a sense of perspective is vital here.

Uh, how many people died in 9/11?

Small change, right? No? It is only small change when it is innocent brown people instead of innocent white people? Oh, OK got it.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Uh, how many people died in 9/11?

Small change, right? No? It is only small change when it is innocent brown people instead of innocent white people? Oh, OK got it.

I believe the "5,000" Strike referenced is the number of American casualties, the number of Iraqi/Afgani casualties runs into the millions by now, I'm sure.

Also, if you want to pull the "brown people" card I shall play the "epic fail" card because Afgani's and Assyrians are about as "brown" as Italians.

Unless, of course you only consider Gallo-Arrians to be "white".

[Louis VI the Fat]

I believe the "5,000" Strike referenced is the number of American casualties, the number of Iraqi/Afgani casualties runs into the millions by now, I'm sure.

Also, if you want to pull the "brown people" card I shall play the "epic fail" card because Afgani's and Assyrians are about as "brown" as Italians.

Unless, of course you only consider Gallo-Arrians to be "white".

*The next day, PVC found himself knifed in Napoli*

[Jaguara]

I believe the "5,000" Strike referenced is the number of American casualties, the number of Iraqi/Afgani casualties runs into the millions by now, I'm sure.

Also, if you want to pull the "brown people" card I shall play the "epic fail" card because Afgani's and Assyrians are about as "brown" as Italians.

Unless, of course you only consider Gallo-Arrians to be "white".

The only epic fail is that you cannot see the point.

My point is that you say 5000 casualties is not worthy of consideration, but in another context it was considered enough to go to war over.

Whether it be based on color, nationality, society, ideaology or religion, the point of my "brown" comment was not intended literally...but to illustrate that while we consider the deaths of 5000 innocent 1st world civilians to be total outrage, the millions of casualties of innocent Iraqi and Afghan civilians are seen as a necessary evil.


Oh and to completely digress...in parts of North America I have seen olive-skinned persons of European heritage discriminated against and harrassed because they were not "white-enough" for the pinkies.

[HoreTore]

The best option available to a middle-eastern despot is to label his opposition Al-Qaida terrorists.