Australian Politics Forum - Getting out of Afghanistan

Equitist Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9632 NSW	Re: Getting out of Afghanistan Reply #15 - Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 2:54pm What kind of idiot thinks that doGmatic extremists can be dissuaded from pursuing the cause/s that they (and their forefathers) have obsessively-devoted their lifetimes to!?
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Equitist Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9632 NSW	Re: Getting out of Afghanistan Reply #16 - Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 2:55pm Hint: that was intended to be a rhetorical statement!
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Reply #17 - Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 3:26pm

Mebbe we should shoot 100 Afghan asylum seekers for every International Security Assistance Force killed by the dodgy Afghani army. Make it NATO policy.

Extend the scheme to all hellhole countries (pakistan, iraq, iran, lybia): any vicim of terrorism or barbarity over there means 100 of their asylum seekers are shot here.

Peace in 10 minutes.

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Reply #18 - Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 3:30pm

Soren wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 3:26pm:

Mebbe we should shoot 100 Afghan asylum seekers for every International Security Assistance Force killed by the dodgy Afghani army. Make it NATO policy.

Extend the scheme to all hellhole countries (pakistan, iraq, iran, lybia): any vicim of terrorism or barbarity over there means 100 of their asylum seekers are shot here.

Peace in 10 minutes.

Your one twisted bugger WHAT A GOOD IDEA Grin

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Reply #19 - Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 3:32pm

Soren wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 3:26pm:

Mebbe we should shoot 100 Afghan asylum seekers for every International Security Assistance Force killed by the dodgy Afghani army. Make it NATO policy.

Extend the scheme to all hellhole countries (pakistan, iraq, iran, lybia): any vicim of terrorism or barbarity over there means 100 of their asylum seekers are shot here.

Peace in 10 minutes.

Have you been overdosing on Techno again?

They are refo's because the people who would kill soldiers are the same people trying to kill them.
They'll kill more soldiers so we do their work for them.
But very good keep up that thinking & I may have a position for you in the revolution Cheesy

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Getting out of Afghanistan Reply #20 - Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 3:34pm Hint: that was intended to be a rhetorical statement! I think it was just intended to be unkind
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Life_goes_on Gold Member Offline Posts: 4772 400kms south of Yobsville, Qld Gender:	Re: Getting out of Afghanistan Reply #21 - Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 3:36pm If you ever wondered what kind of people staffed and ran the concentration camps you need only read forums like this.
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Equitist Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9632 NSW	Re: Getting out of Afghanistan Reply #22 - Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 3:38pm bogarde73 wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 3:34pm: Hint: that was intended to be a rhetorical statement! I think it was just intended to be unkind Yer, well that too - but it wasn't directed at you! (I agree with most of what you said.)
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Re: Getting out of Afghanistan
Reply #23 - Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 5:02pm

Dsmithy70 wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 3:32pm:

Soren wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 3:26pm:

Mebbe we should shoot 100 Afghan asylum seekers for every International Security Assistance Force killed by the dodgy Afghani army. Make it NATO policy.

Extend the scheme to all hellhole countries (pakistan, iraq, iran, lybia): any vicim of terrorism or barbarity over there means 100 of their asylum seekers are shot here.

Peace in 10 minutes.

Have you been overdosing on Techno again?

They are refo's because the people who would kill soldiers are the same people trying to kill them.
They'll kill more soldiers so we do their work for them.
But very good keep up that thinking & I may have a position for you in the revolution Cheesy

Been reading Suetonius, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. They decimated their cowardly or treacherous soldiers. I just adjusted the figure for inflation since Roman times.

Nero punished treason by having the traitor stripped naked, his head held up by a pitch fork and flogged to death.

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Reply #24 - Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 6:10pm

n the 27 hours after the Australians first attacked the German trenches, (Fromelles) 5533 ANZACs had been killed or wounded. This was twice as many casualties as the landing at Gallipoli. 60,000 Australians lost their lives in WW1 out of a force of over 420,000. The process of repatriation alone cost 238 million Pounds sterling.

Consider that when contemplating just over 20 dead and a total force of 1500. I'm not suggesting going to those lengths again but it makes you wonder. If a jobs worth doing it's worth doing properly and the Afghanistan campaign is a job worth doing.

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Reply #25 - Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 11:50pm

Dsmithy70 wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 3:32pm:

Have you been overdosing on Techno again?

Lesson: don't bugger with the blond beast.

(".. all these noble races we cannot fail to recognize the beast of prey, the blond beast splendidly roaming around in its lust for loot and victory. This hidden basis from time to time needs to be discharged: the animal must come out again, must go back into the wilderness...")

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Re: Getting out of Afghanistan
Reply #26 - Jun 3^rd, 2011 at 2:37pm

If a jobs worth doing it's worth doing properly and the Afghanistan campaign is a job worth doing.

That's OK as a general proposition Grey, but general propositions don't always apply.
I mean, by that logic, the diggers should in fact have stayed at Gallipoli. It was a great idea to attack the enemy from the south but they should have considered the terrain etc.
The Afghanistan campaign is now the equivalent of Vietnam.
The enemy can move over the border to Pakistan whenever he likes, from where he can also be supplied with impunity.
Or he can melt back into the general population and nobody knows or is willing to say who he is.
You could in theory kill every Afghani but their tribal brothers would just move over the mountains & plains and take up their land and it would go on.
There is no end to it. It's a bottomless pit.

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Reply #27 - Jun 3^rd, 2011 at 3:30pm

Grey wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 6:10pm:

n the 27 hours after the Australians first attacked the German trenches, (Fromelles) 5533 ANZACs had been killed or wounded. This was twice as many casualties as the landing at Gallipoli. 60,000 Australians lost their lives in WW1 out of a force of over 420,000. The process of repatriation alone cost 238 million Pounds sterling.

Consider that when contemplating just over 20 dead and a total force of 1500. I'm not suggesting going to those lengths again but it makes you wonder. If a jobs worth doing it's worth doing properly and the Afghanistan campaign is a job worth doing.

17,000 Australians were killed capturing Pozieres on the western front.

It was an Australian Lewis gunner who shot down the Red baron.

At the Menin Gate the local fire brigade stop all traffic at 8pm and play the last Post they have done this every night since WW1 only stopping during WW2.

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Baronvonrort Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 18789 Gender:	Re: Getting out of Afghanistan Reply #28 - Jun 3^rd, 2011 at 3:40pm The fire brigade about to play the last post at The Menin Gate. They do this every night at 8pm its been going on since WW1 ended.
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Baronvonrort Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 18789 Gender:	Re: Getting out of Afghanistan Reply #29 - Jun 3^rd, 2011 at 3:52pm Found a video of the Last post at the Menin Gate www.youtube.com/watch?v=B45nmVdJIT8
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