Was It Worth It?

[lesjude]

Or what scoffing at what the Bible teaches about nonresistance and forgiveness reaps.
Was it worth it? Afghanistan 11 years later

By Tanya Cariina Hsu
Global Research, October 08, 2012
Url of this article:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/was-it-worth-it-afghanistan-11-years-later/

 

[Strat]

No country has ever been run on forgiveness or non resistence...that is not the way nations work,never has been and never will be...Afghanistan is just like most all American military involvement since WW2...pointless and meaning less except to those who made money off of it while sending young men off to die telling them it was all for America and America's freedom...meanwhile we get the patriot act,the defense authorization act and the rapidly developing total surveillance state...yeah,what a fabulous success it has been.....your veiws are an excellent arguement for the seperation of church and state

 

[Axehead]

No country has ever been run on forgiveness or non resistence...that is not the way nations work,never has been and never will be...Afghanistan is just like most all American military involvement since WW2...pointless and meaning less except to those who made money off of it while sending young men off to die telling them it was all for America and America's freedom...meanwhile we get the patriot act,the defense authorization act and the rapidly developing total surveillance state...yeah,what a fabulous success it has been.....your veiws are an excellent arguement for the seperation of church and state

Strat, I think you are right. No kingdom of this world has ever been run on forgiveness or non-resistance.

At first I thought Switzerland would prove us wrong, but though they have a long history of neutrality they were in a state of war prior to 1815.

Axehead

 

[Strat]

Strat, I think you are right. No kingdom of this world has ever been run on forgiveness or non-resistance.

At first I thought Switzerland would prove us wrong, but though they have a long history of neutrality they were in a state of war prior to 1815.

Axehead

Their neutrality was respected had it not been non resistence would have resulted in no more Switzerland.

 

[Axehead]

"Neutrality" is an interesting word, because in WWII they helped both the Axis and the Allies. And they shot down 11 or so Luftwaffe planes. Switzerland was also used as an espionage base by both the Axis and the Allies. Did you know that they have a military and conscription begins at age 19? Most people don't know they have an Army and Air Force (with F18 Hornets).

Swiss Army. MOWAG Eagle III artillery observer vehicle. Participating in the "Steel Parade" of the 2006 Army Days, Thun.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/SKdt-Fahrzeug_-_Schweizer_Armee_-_Steel_Parade_2006.jpg

 

[aspen]

Or what scoffing at what the Bible teaches about nonresistance and forgiveness reaps.
Was it worth it? Afghanistan 11 years later

By Tanya Cariina Hsu
Global Research, October 08, 2012
Url of this article:
http://www.globalres...11-years-later/

No. It was not worth it.

 

[Axehead]

I agree with Aspen that it was not worth it, lesjude. What has been accomplished over there? There have been more Army suicides this year than men killed in Afghanistan and the Lord only knows how all the families (wives, mothers and children) have been ravaged by this war that we are fighting on the other side of the globe.

The only thing the U.S.learned is that the enemy is tough and resilient and they cannot conquer them. The U.S. should have learned something from the Russian involvement in Afghanistan.