donnie
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Post by donnie on Jan 21, 2011 6:50:13 GMT -5
I really recommend this movie. It's a uniquely shot documentary which follows real Danish soldiers on duty in Afghanistan. It's quite disturbing, because unlike fiction, you can't dismiss it with "it is just a movie"; the dead people from the fighting scenes are really dead people. It goes to show how twisted war is and how it fvcks with the brains of the young who will have to fight it, and how its basically the civilians who always suffer the most, as theyre caught inbetween and risk Taleban revenge.
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Patrinos
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Post by Patrinos on Jan 21, 2011 8:22:34 GMT -5
its time at leat Europeans to understand the vainness of this war... i don't expect the same thing from americans who think that they send their poor youth to play a 3D realistic new Call of Duty...
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Post by toskaliku on Jan 21, 2011 11:04:35 GMT -5
Wtf the fuck are you talking about? Look at the documentary "Why we Fight" or "No End in Sight", or the "Aftermath of War" or about a million other American documentaries focusing on the futility, greed, and brutality of modern wars. Also look up "Winter Soldier", a video testomony about the massacres committed in Vietnam.
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Patrinos
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Post by Patrinos on Jan 21, 2011 11:12:27 GMT -5
Wtf the f**k are you talking about? Look at the documentary "Why we Fight" or "No End in Sight", or the "Aftermath of War" or about a million other American documentaries focusing on the futility, greed, and brutality of modern wars. Also look up "Winter Soldier", a video testomony about the massacres committed in Vietnam. well profesori...i didn't refer to the documentaries produced about that issue in america... just believe that if the majority of Americans were against that war, based in any sense of humanism that they have left to have, they could stop those wars by protesting and pushing the government to follow their will. But I think Americans are so filled up with the "democratic America" who think that even if they don't demand anything things would go ...democratically... I believe Europeans are more sensitive in that issues and can more easily control their governments, through protests, the press, influential personalities etc. A prime minister or a president in Europe lives with the anxiety that he can be made to declare elections even if the 4 or 5 years have passed... that supposed "calmness" in the American political system is actually the reason why it will fall epically...
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Post by toskaliku on Jan 21, 2011 14:38:46 GMT -5
Europeans have experienced war head on. They have seen their capitals bombed, they have witnessed occupation and murder. Americans have not. The American perspective of war is different from the European one. It has been one of continuous foreign expeditions far away from daily life of the American people.
America is not Europe, America is a world wide hegemony with one of the strongest and most consolidated governments. The American people are secondary to this status, and so long as the Anglo-Saxons of America's elite are happy, rich and powerful... then the rest of the country is not significant. Europe was largely the same way before WWII
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