Originally posted by Dowding
Yeah, tactically brilliant. I'm sure the GI standing on the Baghdad street corner waiting for the next suicide bomber thinks it is brilliant. I'm sure he loves your idea of him being used as bait.
They are there to do their job, thats why so many volunteered after 9/11. They don't view themselves as bait, like you think they are. They view it as a job to do, someones got to do it, because there are so many pasty-white liberals like yourself that don't even have enough muscle tissue to lift a bag of groceries. They know where the fight belongs, take it to them. They have, and are(the servicemen), and its unfortunate that the enemy is so chicken to fight that they have to resort to suicidal means, but the Soldier understands this, and the sooner they kill or capture al Qaida operatives(as the story points out), the better off you will be, even without your thankfulness...
Let me ask you Dowding, what have to done to support your British troops fighting abroad?
We continue to make up food stuffs baskets for Marines we'll never meet, 4 each month, since the beginning of the conflict. Its not much by any means, but I do like to think that a soldier that gets one of these with a short hand written note by a 8 year old means something to them.
Thank God the US and British combat troops.