OT - US Soldier kills 16 Civilians in Afghanistan

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Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

I get threads like this usually started by the same handful of people. Ones that seldom participate in the game discussions. Usually with the same recurring theme.

Sorry, but I don't follow this vague accusation. The person who started this particular thread has 86 posts created. After looking over the topics, I wasn't able to identify any that were blaming the US for anything. There was one about bible quotes on weapons sold to NZ, but the subject matter contained only news quotes and no personal opinion given. Does that count?

Do you consider news reports anti-<insert country>? Because there is also a news report about how a Canadian Colonel was a serial killer... and I don't know if that ought to be considered anti-Canadian.

Perhaps you could be more specific on the posting trends. Who are these handful of people that usually start threads with an anti-american theme?

I'm not looking for an argument here, but I feel that if you are going to be making public accusations, especially ones that I (being a non-American) might fall under, you should provide something a little more solid. I think that is only fair.

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

Once again we won all the battles in Afghanistan, and we are losing the War on the floor of Congress.

This reminds me of a story about a Colonel visiting Vietnam in 1990. He made a statement that basically said "the US never lost on the battlefield".

The Vietnamese general simply replied, "Yes, but that's irrelevant."

A good point that seems to have been missed then, and is possibly being missed again today in another country, is that firepower doesn't necessarily win wars. You can win all the battles you want, but in the end sometimes that is irrelevant.