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Originally Posted by dknob
what in the fuck am I reading here???
"When did America become the World Police?" - easy answer; since nobody else would. This world sucks, and if we have the ability to bring a guy like Kony to justice or into a body bag - then by all means do it. This is what we do, and have been doing for years. Stop acting like you just walked in on your wife being fucked by your neighbor.
You people make it sound like the things we do around the world that seemingly have no interests to the US is something new.
"Not at the cost of our troops lives!!" - Seriously WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU to judge that?!
This is an all volunteer military and so is SOCOM - anybody who volunteers for a SOF unit, ESPECIALLY for SF, already knows he will be deployed all over the world. Not just in combat zones like Iraq/Afghanistan.
To all the SF guys who have conducted FID deployments and JCETs in places wit no significant interest to the US, how is this any different? You risked your lives in Colombia to stop the FARC and the cartels - why? Because they were killing Colombians and getting Americans high? I can see the huge threat to the American way of life from here.. not (well except maybe protecting those pipelines.. but still you know what I mean). But the reality is - what SF has done and continues to do down there is a noble and amazing cause to help those people.
And to those people spouting off nonsense like "Don't send OUR troops there!" that makes them feel like patriots and troop supporters. The guys on the ground aren't E1s from the 82nd, they are shooters who want nothing more then to be doing the job they signed up for. They don't need or want risk averse civilians like yourselves to speak on their behalf. So simply STFU.
Nobody asked Batman to to fight crime in Gotham - he just did it because he had the means and the heart when nobody else did. FYI.
And if you are getting pissed off because of my rant - then most likely I am targeting YOU.
Dknob OUT!
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Some reasons why America finds itself the worlds policeman, is the quality of cop in Africa. We have a policeman marking the road at an accident scene using the barrel of his rifle. This may seem a little careless to an American, but it is not really a problem here in South Africa because policemen have lost or sold 70 000 weapons in the last two years, so it is quite easy to replace.