Journal DG's Journal: Next Post will be from Kandahar, Afghanistan 7
...assuming the wireless is working.
After 13 months of workup training, I finally get to go to war.
DG
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Next Post will be from Kandahar, Afghanistan
Seen on a button at an SF Convention: Veteran of the Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force. 1990-1951.
Good luck (Score:2)
Keep your head down and get back safely.
Good Luck (Score:2)
This is something to which you look forward? (Score:2)
It'd be nice to see how your outlook and interest develops. I have been following this young fellow, closely: http://alexpeterc.wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com]
Looking forward to your first post... (Score:2)
... from back home, after a safe and successful deployment.
(Looking forward to the ones from Over There as well, but *really* looking forward to that one.)
Godspeed (Score:2)
Sun Tzu said (Score:2)
II.6 There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.
III.1 In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact;
to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it,
to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.
http://www.yuni.com/library/suntzu.htm [yuni.com]
Go if you must, but come back whole.
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Man, if there were ever a country to serve as an example to back up that quote, this one would be it. Constant warfare since the late 70's.
That's why we're here: to stop the warfare, get the Afghan state back on its feet, and give these people a normal life.
The major problem is that the people who have learned to profit from continuous war are not keen on seeing their livlihoods evaporate, and so work hard to keep the war going.
But one does what one can. The price of doing otherwise is demonstatively too hi