[gekko]

Originally posted by Rndm_Perfection
Buuut, then came Gekko with his off-topic outburst toward an opposing opinion.

Want to explain how it was off-topic? Wait, don't bother, it wasn't. Of all things, inappropriate, not called for, etc., it was hardly off-topic. I choose to "speak" about him, rather than ban him.

The WWII thing was not dishonorable, be careful how you use that word. The United States, and even Europe were not wrong in their decision to wait things out. Looking back on it, it may have been a bad decision. But looking back on it, we know of everything that Nazi Germany did. At that time, they had no clue, they couldn't see the future. They didn't want war, and Germany wasn't this big superpower who was killing off entire races of people and trying to take over the world. And we weren't alive back then, we don't know what it was like. It may have turned out to be the wrong decision, but it wasn't dishonorable.

Just don't make the same mistake twice.

And on Afghanistan, they kinda handed over Kabul. It wasn't a long, drawn-out war. This wasn't WWII, and a lot of our attacks were done from the air. And recently, not much has happened. Battle happened very recently, one happened last spring, and there hasn't been too much for a while now. You guys are expecting 24/7 coverage from the front lines.

The media goes crazy with this new "War". It's not just a "war on terrorism"... no, it's a true war this time. I guess it just produces higher ratings than what really happened over in the land of Afghan.

We have troops in Afghanistan, if anything breaks out, they fight, its over. A war with Iraq currently has 92,000 troops deployed, and is currently a huge issue in the US, and it's having a major effect on the economy. Major issue, with new information coming regularely, versus Afghanistan war which has small battles happening, nothing really ground breaking, just doing the dirty work. Which do you think Americans want to hear?

And why, oh why are they reporting such information as the weaponry we plan on using, the location of assumed hidden Iraqi armory, and the alleged attack coordination.

Because the media is too ****ing stupid to realize that lives are comprimised by their ****ing ratings.

"Freedom of the Press"

That's relating to publishing what you want, of course, there are some restrictions. I think part of the blame should be put on our government for revealing this information to the greedy journalists. Unless that is, they're feeding them lies like they have before. I find that funny

but the name "bin Laden" has vanished from American Broadcast.

The man has vanished too. Hope he dies in that cave.

I dunno, maybe to find the truth, one must order Al-Jazeera (or the many other translated names of it).

Al-Jazeera? Truth? ROFLMGDMFAO! Good one.

Yes... there's already plenty negative thoughts toward American military and politics.

You're right, we need more pro-America movements.

Whether or not the States "saved" Afghanistan from the Taliban

No man (or woman may be more appropriate) in their right mind would want to live under Taliban rule. Then again, look how many over there are brainwashed.