I grew up in SoCal & was raised Catholic until I was old enough to realize what a crock it was. I grew up around people who were born 300 miles away from me in Mexico and raised Catholic. At the age of 28, married to a Oaxaca Mexican, most of my friends are Mexican, most of my co-workers are Mexican, and about a dozen books on Latin-American Studies later... I still only just NOW "get it."
Now take that 300 mile difference in culture and magnify it by... say... x100?
Yeah. No. Pull all resources out of that shit hole and ignore it. There is no success to be had, we're just letting people die for no good reason. Just pretend the place doesn't exist, mark it "No Man's Land" and don't go back until... for a real long damn time. They're some of the finest guerrilla fighters on the planet, they kicked the Russians out with our guns, and they're still using the same guns to kick us out. It's all well & good that we chose it as shadow-ey home of "terrorists," but we get it - there were never any damn "terrorists" there, there never will be. Just a lot of really angry guys who are really good at killing us. They did GREAT before the Russians showed up, they did GREAT before we showed up... they'll do GREAT if we're the hell out of there and not running our soldiers through a useless meat grinder.
Don't get me wrong! I'm pro-invasion... I'm just pro-invasion of countries we something useful.
Now take that 300 mile difference in culture and magnify it by... say... x100?
Yeah. No. Pull all resources out of that shit hole and ignore it. There is no success to be had, we're just letting people die for no good reason. Just pretend the place doesn't exist, mark it "No Man's Land" and don't go back until... for a real long damn time. They're some of the finest guerrilla fighters on the planet, they kicked the Russians out with our guns, and they're still using the same guns to kick us out. It's all well & good that we chose it as shadow-ey home of "terrorists," but we get it - there were never any damn "terrorists" there, there never will be. Just a lot of really angry guys who are really good at killing us. They did GREAT before the Russians showed up, they did GREAT before we showed up... they'll do GREAT if we're the hell out of there and not running our soldiers through a useless meat grinder.
Don't get me wrong! I'm pro-invasion... I'm just pro-invasion of countries we something useful.
Such as Brittan.
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