hello hellooooo
"US Army General Charles Dunlop saw the coming wave years ago while serving in Somalia: "I was struck," Dunlop says, "by the resourcefulness, cleverness and fierceness of the Somalis in confronting us" even though they had only primitive weapons and were often starving. Dunlop warns, America underestimates "the combat capability of societies we had considered too resource-poor to challenge us."
Us army General Charles Dunlop is the man you disagree with. I was quoting that "gal" who was quoting him. Do you think Dunlop is "overheated" and "nuts" too? Address the facts. Fact is General Dunlop said what he said. Fact is Somalis don't have a lot of cash, and even if they were trained by Al Qaeda, that doesn't make them less fierce, less clever, less poor, or less primitive (compared to us especially. I happen to think the stuff used in 9/11 was pretty primitive- and yet...it worked, which is kind of the point). Your PBS bits don't disprove General Dunlop's comments, except, obviously, in your mind.
I don't know why you fight this so hard. The messenger doesn't matter- it't the message that is important. And I don't think the general said they were gallant freedom fighters- I wish you would try not to make things up in your post. It certainly make your posts much less credible.
And what DO you think about soldiers calling home? I saw that on the news- and thought that the news that our soliders were calling home to complain about conditions, supplies, etc, was a PR disaster. I notice you don't even address that. It is hard to address, I think, because the point made is a good one. |
