UnSubRocky wrote on Oct 17
th, 2024 at 7:50pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on Oct 17
th, 2024 at 1:39pm:
I actually applied to the military when I had no idea how to earn a living; I failed the eyesight standard. (I think I had fantasies of explaining to my fellow soldiers how war can be avoided ...the naivety of youth...)
You had fantasies of sweet talking the local SASR into not shooting the cutest soldier in Afghanistan...
Your narrative, not mine; I believe the UN goal to "save mankind from the scourge of war" is achievable.
Quote:No kidding. You would have not made it to the rifle range.
That's right, as I already said, my eyesight (without glasses) wasn't up to army standards
Quote: TGD
Not in the military - I would be turfed out in an instant; as you know by now, I despise the war machine, being more interested in examining the mentality of international law lawyers who are grappling with the absurd concept of 'legal war'.
Australian military personnel are required by
international military law... ...yeh, the insane absurdity of "legal war" (rules for committing murder legally...)
Quote:to not fire their weapons unless they are genuinely threatened. You are either scared or lazy to join the military. I bet you got high the night before you applied for some role in the ADF.
At the time, no, I was young and naive.
But I certainly refuse to go overseas to get PTSD now, on a government mission (like the illegal Bush-Blair-Howard adventure) which ignores international law.
These days there's no excuce for war at all, since the age of conquest has passed;; the faulty ideology leading to war should be exposed at the UN and any dispute adjudicated in the ICJ (the UN's court of law).
Quote:Bingo. I talked one returned soldier out of killing his wife, back when I was 19 years old. Her daughter grew up to be a nurse at the Rockhampton Base Hospital.
Oz had no business in destroying Afghanistan; the IMF should be doing its job to engender prosperity in all nations.
Quote:PTSD for the returned soldier. Because f'wits like you want to encourage the real perpetrators of domestic violence in Iraq to extend Australian soldiers deployment in Baghdad a lot longer than necessary. Why you want to encourage the Iraqis to play the victim, that is a matter that only YOU can explain.
Touched on above: in the West, domestic violence is caused by a failure of the economy (overseen by the useless IMF), and for veterans suffering PTSD, adventures in war; in the Islamic world, complicted by absurd conventions re women in Islam, conventions which are NOT the job of Oz soldiers to fix, but the job of the UN.
Quote:Meanwhile, I am sick of paying $1.80/L at the petrol bowser for Unleaded 95.
Caused by dysfunctional geopolitics and resort to war.
Quote:F'n oath, leftnut futureguy.
Ideology needs to be be soundly-based, and "the future is ours"..
Quote: And when our soldiers concede to PM demands of going easy on insurgents, that just encourages the insurgents to migrate to places like Australia. And that then becomes a hypothetical situation where you are the hostage negotiator at your mother's funeral.
You remind me of Jack Nicholson's character in "A Few Good Men"; the decorated general was outed for issuing a 'code red' resulting in the illegal death of a soldier.
"Go easy on insurgents" who are
trained killers (like the good general...) ; yes, I see the problem....do you?