Death Convoy of Afghanistan

[midnight Target]

Mass graves of Taliban and Al Queda were found in N. Afghanistan. Are We Responsible for our allies?

[Ripsnort]

Yes, we should have dropped leaflets to our Allied tribesmen "Please do not treat prisoners poorly, even though they've treated your population like germ-fested dogs for the last 5 years"

[Thrawn]

Your not responsible for your allies.  But, you can tell alot about someone by who they hang out with.  And they can tanish the, what might be, honorable orignal goals of the endevour.  Leaving the taste, not of victory, but of ashes, in the mouth of freedom.

PS: Does anyone know how I could have made the metaphore more unwieldy?

[midnight Target]

Leaving the acrid dry taste, not of sweet victory, but of the  ashes of the dead and dieing, in the untainted virginal mouth of freedom.

Hows that?

[Masherbrum]

I would have saved more money and left them exposed for the vultures to eat.   Save the gas and extra manpower.  

Karaya2

[Thrawn]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Leaving the acrid dry taste, not of sweet victory, but of the  ashes of the dead and dieing, in the untainted virginal mouth of freedom.

Hows that?

LOL!  Much better!  

[Eagler]

bury the deeper next time and build a red cross station on top of them

screw the Taliban and Al Queda & Newsweek while you're at

[Elfenwolf]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Leaving the acrid dry taste, not of sweet victory, but of the  ashes of the dead and dieing, in the untainted virginal mouth of freedom.

Hows that?

The taste of sweet victory is tainted with the stench of atrocity upon the palate of the righteous.

(Sorry MT, but an editor would never allow you to say "untainted virginal mouth"...... Unless you're writing porn, anyway.)

[Yeager]

Whats the big deal?

We need to respect the traditions and cultures of these modern day midevil types.  They are really quite retarded in their evolution!

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Elfenwolf


The taste of sweet victory is tainted with the stench of atrocity upon the palate of the righteous.

(Sorry MT, but an editor would never allow you to say "untainted virginal mouth"...... Unless you're writing porn, anyway.)

While yours is undoubtedly better Elfie, you have not met the criteria of the excercize:

PS: Does anyone know how I could have made the metaphore more unwieldy?

Now go back and try again dammit!!

[Soup Nazi]

I was fighting the Tally bin ladens in "The Stan" and told the prisoners "No soup for you!, No water, no food, no air, no soup! ONE YEAR!"

[fdiron]

During the prison revolt where a few U.S. servicemen were killed, our Afghan allies were actually documented executing wouned Al Queda prisoners.  There were even eye witness acounts of wounded Al Queda having their heads bashed in with large rocks.

But, you know what they say, Can't Live Forever.

[Elfenwolf]

LOL MT, here's one from the Gulf War-

Like Goldilocks sampling porriage the American people have finally found a paltapable war- not too cold like Korea nor too hot like Viet Nam, this war tastes Just Right.


However, back on assignment- unweildy food metaphors-

The fruit salad of warfare is made up of sweet cherries of victory, spoiled banana slices of regrettable atrocity and sour grapes from the Left. Don't expect every bite to taste good, but if you ordered it then finish your plate.

Or-

We have fast food and fast war and, like McDonald's you don't serve millions every day without accidents happening. We might be better served if we ignored the occasional fried rat who makes it onto the bun of a Big Mac and instead concetrate on the cooked cockroaches in the French Fries that so often go unnoticed.

[CptTrips]

I think its inexcusable to sumarily execute prisoners like that.


We could have tortured them for information.


Wab

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by AKWabbit
I think its inexcusable to sumarily execute prisoners like that.


We could have tortured them for information.


Wab

ROTFLOL!