Iberville, I thank you for your service to your fellow man. I spent 10 years in the US Navy myself, luckily in my career I never had to see the horrors of what you have witnessed so far in yours...
It is my own thought that the wish of every "fighting man" is a desire to work himself (herself perhaps) out of a job. The ultimate goal of the "fighting man" is peace. But so long as there are those who would cheat, wrong, defraud, kill and maim others for sport or pleasure, there will be a need for the fighting man.
I've several friends who are still serving abroad and they all have the same basic stories to tell (if they feel like talking about it al all).
I wonder what kind of missions the Taliban player will have in this wargame? Perhaps a whole series that starts out with "Find the woman who's burcha isn't long enough and shoot her in the back of the head execution style". This could be followed up with a stoning of a woman who knew how to read, or spoke in public.
It may be that I am the product of the western culture, I joined the NAVY while Reagan was President, and we here had the "evil" Soviet empire. But before I left the NAVY, it was my great pleasure to visit some of the former Soviet states along the Baltic Sea, and even to sea the wonderful city of St. Petersburg, which just years before would have been unthinkable. Former adversaries can find themselves as the closest of allies, but the things that the Taliban have done in the name of Allah is beyond me.
One more final duty of the fighting man...
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends
We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread...
It is my own thought that the wish of every "fighting man" is a desire to work himself (herself perhaps) out of a job. The ultimate goal of the "fighting man" is peace. But so long as there are those who would cheat, wrong, defraud, kill and maim others for sport or pleasure, there will be a need for the fighting man.
I've several friends who are still serving abroad and they all have the same basic stories to tell (if they feel like talking about it al all).
I wonder what kind of missions the Taliban player will have in this wargame? Perhaps a whole series that starts out with "Find the woman who's burcha isn't long enough and shoot her in the back of the head execution style". This could be followed up with a stoning of a woman who knew how to read, or spoke in public.
It may be that I am the product of the western culture, I joined the NAVY while Reagan was President, and we here had the "evil" Soviet empire. But before I left the NAVY, it was my great pleasure to visit some of the former Soviet states along the Baltic Sea, and even to sea the wonderful city of St. Petersburg, which just years before would have been unthinkable. Former adversaries can find themselves as the closest of allies, but the things that the Taliban have done in the name of Allah is beyond me.
One more final duty of the fighting man...
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends
We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread...