Re:Sweden brings back military conscription
by crystalmeph on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:47AM
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For certain values of "conquered." The "bad guys" never seem to be completely conquered, and still enjoy significant freedom of movement and access to supply lines.
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Re:Sweden brings back military conscription
by RobertoG on Thursday March 02, 2017 @12:16PM
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the conquered are the "bad guys"?
Re:Sweden brings back military conscription
by crystalmeph on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:22PM
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I don't know why you're getting downvoted, and I'm the one who put "bad guys" in quotes!
I put it in quotes not because I believe in moral relativism, but because in the conflict against the USSR, official US policy was that the mujahideen were "good guys, or at least not-as-bad-as-the-other-guys," while in our own invasion, they were bad guys, an assessment I share due to their harboring of terrorists who intentionally murdered thousands of civilians.