Read main thread: The 1977 Somali-Ethiopian war
June 7th, 2007  
KJ
Centurion
 
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by roverin
QUOTE :Maybe they should just go back to colonialize?
It would take far shorter then 60-100 years, and perhaps after solving the mess they could give it back for another 60 or so years of civil wars and other fun activities. UNQUOTE ( KJ ) ___ WELL YOU SEE ITS NOT THAT EASY TO GO BACK TO COLONISATION. SEE THE MESS CREATED IN IRAQ. THE NAME OF THE GAME HAS CHANGED BUT MEDDLING HASN'T STOPPED. OR LOOK AT AFGHANISTAN WHERE THE US IS FIGHTING THE FRANKESTEIN SHE CREATED NAMELY THE TALIBAN AND BIN LADEN WHO WERE TO START WITH CIA STOOGES TASKED TO FIGHT THE SOVIET OCCUPATION. KJs TALK ABOUT A 16YR OLD DOING WHAT HIS COUNTRY HAS ASKED HIM TO DO TANTAMOUNTS TO WHAT A WHOLE LOT OF POST WW-2 GERMANS WOULD SAY TO EXSCUSE THEIR BLIND ACCEPTANCE OF NAZISM . THE SCARS ON THE JEWS EVEN AFTER THE PASSAGE OF SIXTY YEARS SINCE THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS OF DACHAU,BUCHENWALD ETC WERE LIBERATED IS YET TO HEAL. THE SETTLEMENT OF THE JEWISH HOMELAND WAS ALO LEFT AS A BURNING QUESTION BY THE BRITISH AND THE REPERCUSSIONS ARE STILL BEING FELT.SOCIETY ANYWHERE IS THE SUM TOTAL OF ITS EXISTENCE AND SOCIO-ECONOMICAL HISTORY CAN NOT BE OVERLOOKED WHEN STUDYING THE CAUSE AND EFFECT THAT MAKES FOR SOCIO-POLITICAL REALITIES OF THE DAY. I AM SORRY KJ BUT YOUR POST SMACKS OF IMPERIALISM AT ITs WORST AND THIS COMING FROM A SWEDE IS SURPRISING.
Roverine, I assume you didn´t mean to shout?
Your Caps lock key is located on the left hand side of your keyboard right over the "shift" key.

And uhmm dude, where to begin..

Afghanistan was a piss poor example.
The ALLIED OEF forces are there with full backing of the UN codes of selfdefence.
Furthermore there is a UN mission in that country under the name of ISAF, UNSCR,s (United Nations Security Council) resulutions 1386, 1413, 1444, 1510, 1563, 1623, 1659 and 1707 will give you further information.

If your nation IS NOT a part of the efforts there, then WHY?

Did you just draw a parallel between a 16 year old kid high as a kite on Khat and the Nazis?
If that is the case you must have had a lobotomy.
If you are referring to my remark about "He doesn´t care what country he is in"?
All I can do is ask you Sir, have you been to a war waging African nation?
Have you seen such a kid with your own eyes?
He doesn´t care.
Nine times out of ten he doesn´t even know.

And I am not that much of a fan of imperialism.
But maybe someone needs to step in to stop genocides and civil war in the sector.
Even you have heard about Rwanda and the Tutsis vs the Hutus?
And about DRC, where the most severe clashes stood between Lendu and Hema?
When no one showed up in time for the first of those debacles there were alot of screaming about "the lack of presence" of the western nations..
In Somalia the civil war turned into a genocide before someone stepped in, when they did the coat turned and made it politically correct to scream about they went in too tough?

So how do you propose these genocide situations should be solved?
By doing nothing, or by taking a stand?
In war there is no middleground and you should know that..


I just saw you are an AD LtCol, and you don´t KNOW this already??
Surprising to say the least.....Sir..

//KJ.
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"We are the pilgrims, Master
We shall go always a little further,
it may be beyond the last blue mountain barred with snow,
Across that angry or glimmering sea..."

Last edited by KJ; June 7th, 2007 at 13:36. Reason: Edit for spelling.
 
 
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