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2008-09-03 Afghanistan

Suicide bombs and checkpoints carnage: Germany in Afghanistan

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-09-03 01:54|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 but such is the deterioration of the security situation that the battle has evidently come to them

Wonder if the genius who wrote this at 'military world' ever considered the possibility that the Germans are being deliberately targeted, so they can generate the kind of response Herr Gysi and the newspapers are providing theem?

Posted by Pappy 2008-09-03 12:02|| 2008-09-03 12:02|| Front Page Top

#2 "This is about supporting the soldiers, not hindering them with hypocritical moral debates."

What I wouldn't give to hear the American left say something like this.

Posted by Iblis 2008-09-03 14:21|| 2008-09-03 14:21|| Front Page Top

#3 1) We need to call this a war, not a peace keeping mission

2) We need to call troops who get killed "fallen heroes", not "lost his life".

3) We need to state the purpose of the mission: It's about killing Talibans, who enabled 9/11 and gave shelter to the most vicious terrorists on earth. It's about preventing a second Islamic Khmer Rouge system, a stone age Islamism that would shelter the same terrorists again.

That'll be a start

Posted by European Conservative 2008-09-03 16:18|| 2008-09-03 16:18|| Front Page Top

#4 If Chancellor Merkel did so, European Conservative, how many of your countrymen would then support their troops and the mission?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-09-03 17:39|| 2008-09-03 17:39|| Front Page Top

#5 @trailing wife

Success has many friends. We need to succeed, and support will grow.

Support of Americans for the Iraq war also varies. Now that the surge is showing results support is growing again, isn't it?

You don't need to be popular. You need to be successful. Popularity ensues.

Posted by European Conservative 2008-09-03 17:54|| 2008-09-03 17:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Thank you, European Conservative. A good answer for a country I am fond of.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-09-03 18:12|| 2008-09-03 18:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Welcome :-)

Next year we will be having a Christian Democrat/Free Democrat coalition and we will go from there.

PS: Ignore what the Free Democrats say now. They can't handle being an oposition party, that's all.

The Social Democrats are going over the cliff flirting with the (ex?) Commies.

Posted by European Conservative 2008-09-03 19:13|| 2008-09-03 19:13|| Front Page Top

#8 "Communist Party". It's a name, like George. They wouldn't do at all well if they each got only according to their needs, not their wants.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-09-03 19:32|| 2008-09-03 19:32|| Front Page Top

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