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Originally Posted by kronas
i never said you cannot be a hero in a war, but if your there because you were sent by a government who initiated and engaged in something which nobody asked to happen within a country then yes it does NOT matter, the ends do not justify the means.
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You're trying to say that if you don't agree with a war, than no matter what anyone does in that war, it cannot be heroic?
Yet later on you say:
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Originally Posted by kronas
ok yes kosovo maybe, but the point im trying to make is nobody has made a signficant positive diffarence in afghanistan, as the country is in its current state.
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Even though (someone correct me if I'm wrong) but there was no UN resolution for foreign forces to enter the former Yugoslavia....
As for significant positive difference in Afghanistan, perhaps you should actually talk to some of the people who have served there rather than basing your opinion on your own gut feeling?
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Originally Posted by kronas
whilst i can understand the depth at which someone joins the army for and puts themselves on the line for others its still a finely poised game of politics, especially these days!
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The political and fighting aspects of war are a million miles appart Kronas, unless you're saying that all soldiers act in idential manners for the same political gain.
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Originally Posted by kronas
who put saddam there ? mugabe has shown himself to be more of an aggressive tirant than saddam, he (saddam) did do unsavoury things, but that was not the 'main issue' call for the war there it was WMD which has turned out to be false.
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Mass slaughter of Shia muslims and the deaths of maybe as many as 100,000 Kurds are less unsavoury than what has been going on in Zimbabwe to you? Interesting.