GScholz, I believe you were in the service, I believe you served in Bosnia. Never said you didn't. And I respect that you did your time. I still don't believe you ever participated in a real battle, a real firefight, and to your credit, you have not claimed you did. You just seem to want to act like it, and have others think you did.
I think driving in a convoy that might be sniped would be unnerving. BUT, I still don't think that is the same as a small group of men on foot or in a vehicle coming under sustained close combat, being shot at at close range by multiple attackers. You badmouthed American soldiers who were in exactly that situation, and I won't forget that. They were not just sniped at, they were under direct assault.
So you criticise me for being critical to soldiers because you don't believe I've seen any combat, yet by your own admission has not seen any yourself. You've never been a soldier, yet you seem to think you can tell whether I have been one or not.
Never said you weren't a soldier, never said you didn't serve. Just dont believe you were ever in a true battle. Tell me if I am wrong. I have never before heard a combat experienced soldier bad mouth troops under fire for defending themselves until I happened upon your posts. That was a first. Every other combat experienced soldier understood more than you seemed to.
But i do realize that Americans couldnt care less about what the rest of the world thinks...
Maniac,
Like Cabby, I am glad that you finally realized that. If we spent all our time worrying about what others think, we would be afraid to do anything. I think better the rest of the world worries about what we think of them, it is a fact that many countries rely upon us for support in many ways. When we start letting our fear of others opinion control our nation and it's actions, we cede the right to control ourselves. We choose not to do that.
Not to mention we could bomb all the rest of you into the stone age.
You lambast him for making baseless comments on subjects he doesn't understand, but you do exactly the same time and time again.
Dowding, I will respond to persons like GScholz anytime and in any way I care to, and I will not take direction from you. When he starts bad mouthing your countries soldiers as they fight and die, you can decide to accept it or you can decide to stand up to him. Until then, you aren't involved.
And as far as what anyone in Europe thinks of the USA, we are secure in the knowledge that the USA is the greatest nation on earth. The vast majority of the animosty expressed by sniveling Eurotrash is spawned of deep seated jealousy and resentment that we are in fact a great nation, our standard of living is probably the very best in the world on average, and we don't have to give a dam if anyone likes it or not.
Dago
