Zlaxer wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 8:18 pm
Okeefenokee wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 5:48 pm
SuburbanFarmer wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 5:35 pm
Not like this. This is shaping up to be the final crash for our lifetimes.
Worse case scenario for you lot is that you show your asses so poorly before the relief forces arrive that they decide you don't deserve to be reinstated as full citizens. Other than that, all you have to do is hold out long enough to be rescued, and remember that things won't be going back to the way they were.
Whatever you do, don't go on and on like you do here about what a feckless coward you are who would never stand and fight for anything other than your own hide.
The reality of what is about to happen escapes you.
Tell me - how many battles have you been in?
I couldn't count them if I tried.
When we invaded, the entire army, almost without exception, took off their uniforms and ran. The people we were fighting were the ones who chose to continue fighting, even though their army had surrendered mostly without a fight. Their families suffered immensely throughout all of it.
The reality I'd ask you about is, where do you think you can go and escape what happens if they take over here? And what would you say to those left behind who had to suffer through their terror because you ran?
We've all read the histories of the atrocities that commence when the Mongol Horde arrives. We've heard of the rape of Baghdad. We've heard of the rape of Berlin. None of us are ignorant to what happens when the enemy overruns your lines.
Dan never covered the VBIEDs detonated in city markets while mothers bought groceries. Dan never covered the jaish al mahdi kill teams of Baghdad that executed their fellow citizens for talking to the Americans.
It's one thing to be invaded and occupied by another nation. It's a completely different matter to be engulfed in sectarian civil war.
I've been there, and I don't share your assessment that it's about to happen here, but I absolutely will not be going anywhere if it does.