Fallen Marine's Final Letter

[Barnabas]

American's should have felt happy with the war in Afghanistas just being a punitive expedition, punish them for what they did to you, so that they don't think of ever doing something like that again, something like, IF YOU MESS WITH AMERICA YOU END UP LIKE THIS, with the corpse of dead Bin Laden as background.

I don't think it is possible to give democracy to Afghanistan

[DaShi]

Afghanistan wasn't a total waste. I believe it was C0ckney who pointed out that the Taliban as it was pre-9/11 will never return to Afghanistan.

[DinoDoc]

American's should have felt happy with the war in Afghanistas just being a punitive expedition, punish them for what they did to you, so that they don't think of ever doing something like that again, something like, IF YOU MESS WITH AMERICA YOU END UP LIKE THIS, with the corpse of dead Bin Laden as background.

I don't think America knows how to do a purely punitive action.

[DaShi]

What about the Patriot Act?

[giblets]

Who will walk his dog?

[Dinner]

If it has any sentiment at all, it's grotesque irony. Everyone knowledgeable says Afghanistan is going to fall apart the moment we leave. That boy isn't going to grow up in a free society, he's going to get all that Western Crusader nonsense beat out of him by his tribal elders six months to a year after we leave. Then they'll burn down his school, murdering any and all of his female classmates for being whores who wore revealing uniforms, and send him to work the poppy fields.

So, that letter shouldn't be making your heart swell with patriotic pride, or whatever it makes you feel. You should be just a little bit angry. Because that guy, who seems to be a decent, idealistic young man, is not coming home to that lady and that dog. He got blown to bits on an asinine mission to try and shoot and bomb our values into foreigners who never wanted them, an operation begun in ignorant hubris and continued for ten years just to save face. And we know it isn't going to work. We're going to pull out, and the whole country's going to go the way of Saigon forty years before it, and that brave, hopeful young man will have died accomplishing 1. Jack and 2. ****.

That is sadly the truth.

[giblets]

Well, he did have three things Al will probably never have.

[Hauldren Collider]

So the chick is now single?

Never thought I'd say this but Oerdin wins the thread

I'm just shocked they allowed a dog into the marines, but considering his literacy, why the hell not?

[Al B. Sure!]

So ****ed up...

[MRT144]

So ****ed up...

Just cause you have a hard on for canine troops doesnt make oir comments ****ed up

[Provost Harrison]

There's no way a squaddie could write that!

[Provost Harrison]

Poor Scruffy never left his post.

Yeah, he was constantly urinating against it

[Ming]

Well, he did have three things Al will probably never have.