what about the 14th amendment??
Sweet deal for sure. The parts would run you twice that at retail.
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Well thatâs a lie, the US doesnât even make the top fifty for violent crime, much less homicides worldwide.
The VC and Taliban have won 6 wars between with obsolete outdated weapons against the most worldâs most powerful armies.
Many in the Taliban were using weapons dating all the way back to the turn of the last century. Same with the VC.
German Sturmgewher 44âs have been taken from both The Taliban and ISIS.
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Blimey, youâve got your very own arsenal? lol
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Good post. So what does it tell us? Answer: Itâs all very well to have the most powerful military on the planet, and the latest hardware to consolidate it, but you also need the brain-power to deploy it wisely. This is proved beyond doubt when the VC and Talibs have patched-up AKs and RPGs, but theyâre intelligent enough to use it er, intelligently. Oh, and more importantly - ruthlessly.
The average Taliban fighter doesnât even have a HS education. They are ignorant goat herders and subsistence farmers living an existence little changed from that of their ancestors for the last thousand years.
What they have is an indomitable will and patience.
We have that, much better and more modern weapons and equipment and most importantly much greater access to and average levels of education and information.
We have little in common with the left in this country and the will do to what is necessary to preserve our rights.
No, it isnât being indomitable and patient that enables them to run rings around you, nor is it that theyâre âignorant farmers and goat herdersâ, itâs because they are highly intelligent born warriors. With your naive upsumming, Iâm beginning to see why youâre now having to beg them for peace talks. But donât fret over it too much, because no other hostile outside force has been able to tame them either? If the Russkies couldnât do it, I honestly donât know what on earth it was that made you think the US could.
They arenât running rings around me or the US troops. The US troops are not able to act freely and havenât been since about 07 due to the politicians tying their hands and feet.
It is patience and an indomitable will the Afghans understand and that is what allows insurgencies to eventually win out in wars of attrition.
Public support for operations in Afghanistan started to wane quickly after 2005 and we have conducted no major combat operations there since the end of the surge because of that waning support.
If we went back to max surge troop levels and cut our guys lose it would be a complete rout. Weâve never done that however due to the politics and the public distaste for heavy casualties on either side.
Hereâs some advice for you for a change - you keep giving it to me, albeit unsolicited!! 
Watch a film called Bitter Lake, then at the end of it you might actually know what youâre talking about.
I have over a hundred actual combat operations under my belt including Afghanistan in the 80âs, watching a movie isnât going to teach me a thing.
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You really are a bigot, arenât you. It isnât a âmovieâ itâs a celebrated in-depth epic study of the Western role in the Afghanistan farce which, in the wisdom of the US, is still ongoing after what must be by now 15 effing years. Iâll bet you never went to Afghanistan. Watch the film and learn from it.
Iâm not the least bit bigoted, stating facts is in no way bigoted.
My specific role there was working with the Mujahedeen. I served with JSOC after enlisting in 81 from 82-95 in various capacities in the International Element primarily working with foreign Special Operations units.
Your movie is so popular it never even ran in the US and is already available on Youtube HA!
Bitter Lake never ran in the US? I canât think why it didnât?
And âbigotedâ doesnât mean stating facts, it means the abject refusal to respect an alternative opinion?
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No, itâs an intolerance of other opinions. The only thing I do is challenge people to provide facts to support their opinions.
If the opinion is unsupportable it carries no weight.
And fewer than 1% will ever be used illicitly in any manner against another person.
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I see the same weak people making the same weak arguments they made three years ago as they are doing today! They have not progressed to the point of understanding anotherâs view but instead choose their own dogmatism and myopic perspectives for self edifying purposes! Weak people belong with weak people strong people belong with the strong! The difference between winners and losers! You have to ask yourself would want to be a wolf or a sheep! Brits are def. the sheep by putting forth such weak and lame arguments!
With you dead if you donât have a gun too.
Please note, you might still end up dead even if you are armed; being armed is not a guarantee you will not be killed. However, not having one is virtually a guarantee of being killed if that is the intent of your attacker.
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