You must bear in mind that that that guy prays instead of going to a doctor to mend a broken arm, so you should take his comments with a pinch of salt to say the VERY least.
Apart from that, as faithfullness implied in her other posts, christians do it better too
All I can say to the above is that its bull****. I know plenty of doctors, both atheist and christian, their religion or lack of doesn't impact on their attitude to work.
Well the stuff you come up with to present your arguments in here and on other threads does tend to portray you as very naive to say the least.
Your first sentence sort of confirms my point I'm afraid. The press isn't exactly interested in portraying the 'real' truth, and if a bit of news is presented often enough, it'll be accepted as the 'real' truth anyways.
As Goebbels once said, 'the bigger the lie, the more easily it is believed' (or something of the sort, I'm sure you get the point).
Totally agree with you. It's been an absolute truth since ancient times to the modern ones, and probably into the future as well. It's the grunts who hold the hard won ground who win the war. The rest are support weapons that make the infantryman's easier, but they can't win it on their own, whether we are talking of horsemen, catapults, tanks or aircraft.
I agree with your views here from a purely military perspective, however from a PR perspective, don't you think that the locals, as well as the liberal media, will still try to portray those troops as a 'masked' US presence, acting as a sort of power behind the throne so to speak?
It's still a fact that on the battlefield, it's kill or be killed, whether war is rational or opportunistic.
So you're saying that if an armed assailant jumps me or one of my family, I should have his well being in mind? Sorry but in such a situation, my safety and that of my loved ones would be the priority. If the assailant ends up dead as a reason for his attack, he should have steered clear.
Aside from 'civilian' self defence, what should a security sniper do during some public occasion where there are thousands of innocent civilians and some crazy psycho tries to blow himself up? Should the sniper shoot at the psycho's arm or leg, running the risk that he'll still pull of the bomb, or go for the safe option of blowing his head off? I know what I'd choose, and to hell with PC crap
I just stated an example of where 'killing' someone may be the only option, or at least the most humane one. If I'd be wasted with my body ravaged by cancer, I know I'd be grateful to the guy who turned off my switch instead of prolonging needless agony.
Nasty as it sounds, there's plenty of situations where killing might be the only option...during combat in war, in self defense to defend your home or loved ones, euthanasia.....
I really can't think of any other reasons not to try out Pershing's method.
The PR backlash where some bleeding hearts will cry out at the desecration of muslim beliefs (while conveniently forgetting the atrocities the talibans get up to) would certainly arrive, no doubts about that.
I can't really believe that Pershing's method is forgotten by the military either, the story has been going on for years, and is well documented too.
Sure you can use General Pershing's tactic. Guerrillas strive to bring terror to their opponents in order to sap the conventional army's morale.
Pershing used a 'bigger' terror so to speak against the terrorists. Muslim fanatics aren't afraid of dying because they consider themselves martyrs destined for heaven, so just killing them won't work.
If you take their certainty of going to heaven, you've given them something to fear death now. You have to consider that while you and me consider the rubbing of pig guts onto bullets a lot of hogwash as to 'fear' value (a clean bullet is just as deadly as one coated in pig blood after all), these fanatics do not think in the same way as us.
To them, that bullet has suddenly become something much more fearsome, something that will deny them the afterlife they so avidly seek.
Hence IT IS a viable tactic. Certainly not PC, but you can't play nice when dealing with guerrillas.
If you run around for millenia claiming a messiah will turn up, chances are that one day someone who will claim to be a messiah will turn up. Just for your info, 'messiahs' were two a penny in Judae during the Roman occupation. jesus was just one of many, he just had a better PR after his death
Sorry but where do you get this info from? Grunts on the ground will always be needed, period.
When troops were first deployed in Afghanistan it was thought tanks wouldn't play a part due to the mountainous terrain, but since then Leopard II tanks have been deployed with great success in the fire support role.
True, the tactics have to be adapted from the conventional 'blitkrieg battlefield' tactics NATO has put to great use in the 2 Gulf Wars, but a fully 'robotic' battlefield without a human element is just the stuff of science fiction.
General Pershing used a very successful and utterly low tech solution to a muslim rebellion in the Phippines in 1911, and NATO should really look into that. I bet it'll work fine with the talibans.
I see you've still failed to come up with a decent counter argument as to how so many of the bible stories were already present in other religions which were there centuries before christianity came into being by the way....
I read it on a Reuters report on yesterday's paper, so I'm willing to lend credence to that piece of news.
That's exactly my point. Unwittingly, those doctors may have actually condemned several local afghans to death or torture with their actions there. I can't see the talibans looking kindly on the locals who were ready to befriend western 'devils' after all.
You say that instead of going to a bone specialist, you PRAYED to get you broken hand healed.
Now, my brain tells me that the LOGICAL thing if I break my arm is to go to a hospital, get a doctor to have a look at it and follow his advice on the healing process.
You instead chose to PRAY.
Don't take what I'm going to say as a racial slur (it's not meant as one, but can be easily misinterpreted I guess), how is your choosing to pray to your god to heal your broken hand instead of going to a doctor ANY different from some primitive uncivilized tribesman who goes to his local witch doctor for the same problem?
wulfen Forum Posts (810)
RE: Did you know Albert Einstein actually believed in God
Oh, kindness being used a masquerade for bitterness, what hypocrisy.I might be called cynical but certainly not naive lady.
As for judging, you christians seem to love doing that, just remember the inquisition and the witch hunts