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![]() sounds like those guys need all the help they can get.
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i have seen mention that this is being labeled a U.S. occupation.
i could see where some might think that, but isnt that over the top??? ![]() its not an invasion for crying out loud
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First Nutjob in Brazil Then the French echoed him. No really search it. ![]()
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but would this not be considered humanitarian? ![]()
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No dumping of governments on other coutries. You have to deal with your own toxic waste!
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How would you interpret all this, regardless of my intentions? |
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"All of your base are belong to us" yet so... not what i would label an aggressive occupation of Haiti.
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It's all about visible deterrence. You see a soldier with a rifle on patrol and you're a bit less likely to rob someone of their packet of rice. You wait until he goes around the corner and then smack them over the head...
Also, I should imagine a fair few of those soldiers are actually more involved in distribution rather than just standing around pointing their guns at people. |
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Occupation? Really?
![]() I've never credited any government with an overabundance of brains, but even the most sinister politicians in the western world aren't that freaking retarded. On the other hand, there are politicians stupid enough to insinuate that this effort is a covert occupation, apparently. The US military is regularly deployed to disaster relief areas for a lot of reasons. For one thing, most field units are mechanized to a significant extent, so they have generators, water purification systems, engineering equipment, and all that other crap. Even better, they come with built-in security. They're also already being payed. Other than the transportation costs and any seperation pay incurred for a humanitarian deployment the military costs about what it does to just have it sit around and fill sandbags in the US rather than in a disaster-stricken nation. Does anyone remember the military occupation of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina? They sent like, 60,000 troops there but nobody was bitching about occupation. How about that Indonesian tsunami? I don't know how many troops were deployed there but I know for a fact it had to be in the tens of thousands. How about Somalia? I thought not. The military is an efficient mechanism for disaster relief because all the assets are already in place and ready to go, that's why they use it. Well, its as efficient as a military can ever really be, anyway. ![]()
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One question...
Why in the hell would we want to 'occupy' a poverty stricken third world country with little to no assets. ![]()
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