On Apr 21, 4:38 am, Tommy Tootles wrote:
Cato wrote:
Hell, I'm a dumbass canuck too. So our Canadian boys are over in
Afghanistan fighting Taliban and Al Queda sickos, and doing a fine
job, and helping build schools and hospitals, and handing out radios
and candies, but they keep getting blown up by I.E.D's and asshole
suicide bombers. How the hell do you fight that?

Well, you don't. Ask the Russians. It took them ten years in Afghanistan
to reach that same conclusion.

We in the west seem to want "shock and awe", instant gratification. The
folks over there don't mind dragging it out over *centuries*. The
Shiites and Sunnis have been feuding since about 638 A.D. and we think a
six month or year "surge" is going to resolve the issue? How dumb can W
be? (don't answer--it's a rhetorical question).

My oldest boy might be going over with the "Lincs & Winks"

Best of luck to him!

and my second oldest is thinking of signing up.

Why????

I guess because serving in the Lincoln & Welland Regiment
seems to be a family tradition going back a long, long way.
Cato