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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
Jim, I was never in Nam. There have been other conflicts since that time. Not all were called wars. But having a brother or brothers that you know didn't come home, and should have - especially when your team was ready to go and at least give them an eff'ing chance - only to never get the word.....
Combat is never "fun", its never something you enter into lightly - if you do I sure as heck don't want you anywhere near me.... But there are times when you would embrace it because the fight is worth it.
The Israeli government just put its citizenry at risk by letting 1000+ terrorists go to save one man. Soldiers are almost always duty driven to take that risk for each other. The situation is always fluid, but sometimes wrong decisions are made that cost lives that could have been saved. I didn't like it then, and I won't like it till the day I leave this earth.
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I'm not disagreeing with what you posted it was just the comment
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"Bring em home, or send us to go get them."
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that I was responding too.
I suspect I dislike terrorists and kidnappers as much as you do but I try to spare a small consideration for how the other side perceives things.
The price Israel have paid in this instance is possibly far too high but I doubt they had that much option.
Perhaps we should give thanks there weren't a thousand or more Israelis being held but that is another consideration and one I'd care not to go into considering my position here in our fine community.
No harm no foul Hap
