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<blockquote data-quote="rhodesbe" data-source="post: 1446621" data-attributes="member: 2415"><p>Those dudes have my utmost respect, but I didn't come away with a sense of their intelligence at all. Rather, how they were forced to perform inside utterly stupid parameters.</p><p></p><p>The solders were (are) bound by rules of conflict that put their lives in great danger, and is very costly to maintain. </p><p></p><p>For example, when they finally take the ropes off, the airforces collateralize a bunch of non-combatants (via poor intelligence), and turn the entire region against our force. Then they decide to go back out among those same angry afganis and try to smooth things over. Not the role of a combat solder, poor bastards.</p><p></p><p>Killing farmer's cows, kicking down doors, etc... and then asking them to 'win hearts and minds' as part of the mission. Stupidity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rhodesbe, post: 1446621, member: 2415"] Those dudes have my utmost respect, but I didn't come away with a sense of their intelligence at all. Rather, how they were forced to perform inside utterly stupid parameters. The solders were (are) bound by rules of conflict that put their lives in great danger, and is very costly to maintain. For example, when they finally take the ropes off, the airforces collateralize a bunch of non-combatants (via poor intelligence), and turn the entire region against our force. Then they decide to go back out among those same angry afganis and try to smooth things over. Not the role of a combat solder, poor bastards. Killing farmer's cows, kicking down doors, etc... and then asking them to 'win hearts and minds' as part of the mission. Stupidity. [/QUOTE]
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