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    Default Re: US Pilot achieve a whole new level of fail

    “I dont know who I trust.” I trust MSF. I know their procedure, and I know they would have ordered their staff to withdraw if danger would become too close, and Talibans within the hospital (or in a close area) would have been considered as such. I was injured in doing exactly this more than 20 years ago, evacuating staff and sensitive material (and money) in front of an advancing army.

    For example - during WWII the British and Americans pounded German cities into the ground but generally tried to avoid bombing French cities, which is why Paris survived the war mostly intact and Berlin was a ruin like London” Err, I would dispute this, see Caen, Lorient and Brest. Paris was not bombed because no fight for Paris was in the plan, but by-passing the town. It is only because the Parisians went for an insurrection lead by FPTF (communist party), the intervention of de Gaulle on the French 2DB (Leclerc) and a go-ahead from Paton followed by an approval of Eisenhower than the US Army went for the French Capital.
    But the fact is US Air Force and British Bomber Command killed more French civilians than the Germans. And this fact was accepted by the French populations as the price to pay for freedom.

    And a mostly intact Paris is most likely because the Germans withdrew from the city (ignoring Hitlers orders to burn it down as they left) before any serious fighting began.” See comment above. And German general didn’t have enough explosive, and planned to surrender, didn’t want to be the destructor of Paris in Court.

    Compare Dresden or Berlin.” I suggest you search pictures of Lorient and Brest.
    Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire.

    "I've been in few famous last stands, lad, and they're butcher shops. That's what Blouse's leading you into, mark my words. What'll you lot do then? We've had a few scuffles, but that's not war. Think you'll be man enough to stand, when the metal meets the meat?"
    "You did, sarge", said Polly." You said you were in few last stands."
    "Yeah, lad. But I was holding the metal"
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