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Do you consider invading a trusted ally and trigger exhaustion from killing unarmed opponents honourable marine activities?
Actually, the question was posed by someone who assumed that their trusted ally would invade them. T'wasn't I who broached the trust,
mon ami. I merely addressed the hypothetical.
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Streaker doesn't openly deride the military just the current use of it invading innocent foreign countries on the pretense of helping them.
Afghanistan is arguably better off than it was before. Iraq, for some it is better off, for many more it is not. Time will tell what comes of it.
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You talk about the invasion of Canada as a cakewalk but you invaded iraq in a few weeks and lost more soldiers after peace was declared.
Re-read what I posted. I know the US forces and I know the CF pretty good, too. The US would prevail in any such contest by sheer weight of numbers and technology. But I did not presume to call it a
cakewalk with an assumption of every Canadian casualty coming at the cost of 1.5 to 3 American casualties.
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Canada will be backed by NATO, specifically the UK, France, and every country in the world actually (accept AUS).
It won't happen so that's irrelevant.
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It won't ever happen but I trust Streaker far more....
I trust Streaker, too. I've never found a reason to doubt his word. But the words he's posted tell me he lacks the foundational values that are required to be a soldier.
Were Streaker ordered to take a building under fire that was known to shelter helpless women and children I doubt he'd do it. Even though there would be known to be an enemy commander hiding among them coordinating a devastating attack on his troops.
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That is the kind of scenario that real soldiers run into in the real world all the time. You may think that makes him a better man that he'd refuse to do this, and maybe it does, but it makes him a lousy soldier and it's sometimes the moment's hesitation of one man or the moment of inspiration that changes the course of an entire war.
A soldier's commitments, in order, are properly to his squad, then his platoon, then his company, then on up to his country.
Myself, I doubt like hell I'd blow up a building full of women and children for Chimpy McFlightsuit, but I would not hesitate one second to do it for my squad. Not one second. Not
one.
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