The sadness of war
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There is absolutely a code of conduct in war. For example, biological weapons have all but been agreed to be banned from war. Using it is a sure way to align every country in the world against you.
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Nitro, you're still confused with sportsmanship, and war. There's no such thing called, "fairness" in war, hence war is sad. Watch the video again without bias, and you'll see that the Apache pilots, and gunners involved were not taunting, denigrating, or yelling, "Jesus is great" every time they pulled the trigger.
They were professionals, doing their job, as they were supposed to do. Further more, see how they avoided the donkeys, and pitched tents to avoid collateral damage (ie: women and children in tents?). You would not see this kind of professionalism from many armies around the world.
Also, if you think boxing is fair; you obviously have never been in a fight in the ring. If my opponent hits me in my right eye, and I couldn't see very well anymore, do you think he would stop hitting me in the right eye, or punch me on my left side only? Fat chance of that happening, my friend. He would exploit every disadvantage I have, until I was beaten to a pulp, or knocked out.
Similarly, two samurais squaring off each other only exists in the movies. In real world, they would've assassinated each other using their henchmen, so they wouldn't have to square away one on one.
All that aside, great trending day today, and I'm done for the day
Schaefer
Now, I'm confused. Are you saying that we're using biological, and nuclear weapons against the talibans?
We are using conventional bombs, rockets, and bullets. Also, please cite the source of your, so called, "code of conduct in war". I'd love to educate myself, and may be even forward it to our ignorant military
Schaefer
Horrors of war: US, UK munitions âcause birth defects in Iraqâ
http://rt.com/news/birth-defects-iraq-report-385/
http://rt.com/news/birth-defects-iraq-report-385/
War is not without it's consequences, even the "Holy" ones. There may be some innocent kids, but there are no innocent adults. Everyone participates, even though most don't know it or acknowledge it.
I didn't watch the clip, I know mistakes can and do happen in war, mistakes happen in every business so why would war be any different. Over all especially considering how young many of those guys are I think they do a damn good job. My issue is how in the hell is our guys fighting and dying over there protecting my freedom...hint it isn't. It's a political war and our people are needlessly dying.
The intial invasion was justified. Everyone, including the Clinton's, and most every dem were convinced by the what we now know was faulty intel, and it was faulty going way back before Bush. Idiot that he was, I can't pin that solely on him. The risk was just too high after 9/11. Once we found there were no WMD's we should have split right then and there. Mesaage to Saddam and the rest of the world. Don't talk smack, cause of you do, we're coming in to see what's what. Message delivered and that's the end of it. Instead...well, we all know the cluster F this has turned into.
Would they rather it have been a small mushroom cloud , I would have used a neutron bomb on their butts.