The Coming Genocide in Afghanistan

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[Fnfalman]

General Vo Nguyen Giap. Never had any formal military training or education.  Never even served in the military.  Guess which war he won and against which nation?

Mao Zedong was a peasant and an Army private…care to name which wars he had won or fought a certain western military power to a standstill?

Genghis Khan couldn’t even write his own name  conquered and defeated the armies led by Chinese, Arab, European edimacated ossifers   

 

[railfancwb]

5 hours ago, Fog said:

 

I seem to recall Stormin Norman being in theater when the scuds were dropping in for a visit.

Thanks. I semi-remembered him. Any others?

[railfancwb]

2 hours ago, Gunboat1 said:

I know that the idea of "no skin in the game, no vote" makes a hell of a lot of sense.

Heinlein wrote at some length about this…

“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens… which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it… which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses.’

“‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.”

Robert A. Heinlein

[Gunboat1]

1 hour ago, Fnfalman said:

General Vo Nguyen Giap. Never had any formal military training or education.  Never even served in the military.  Guess which war he won and against which nation?

Mao Zedong was a peasant and an Army private…care to name which wars he had won or fought a certain western military power to a standstill?

Genghis Khan couldn’t even write his own name  conquered and defeated the armies led by Chinese, Arab, European edimacated ossifers   

 

[Fnfalman]

2 hours ago, Gunboat1 said:

 

Get used to losing wars.  That’s all you ossifers are good for.  Wasting GI lives and American taxpayers money.  

[gwalchmai]

I daresay we've all dealt with incompetent officers, and incompetent noncoms, and brainless E-4s, for that matter. But no one seriously believes that the .mil is going to be turned into a true meritocracy anytime soon. I would remind some that there have been many true leaders who came up through the US officer corps and did OK by their men and by the country. No, I think the problem is that the .mil has bought into the same spineless management theories that have largely wrecked US corporations. Sadly, I don't have the solution.

ETA: Except term limits. That would be a good start.

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Feminists are oddly quiet on this

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Brand, spanking new rifle, Colt M16A4?

[DAKA]

Thank you 'joey"        You F"ING INCOMPETENT SHITHEAD