Non US NATO are total pussies. They won't fight even if you paid them to. The french surrender at the drop of a hat and the Italian uniforms follow the capo who believes in bribing first. They are just one scant level below the English pussies in Iraq around Basra who were a bunch of chickens and ran away.

What happened Europe? You lot used to fight like banshees over nothing much at all and now you surrender faster than a dutch film director dies on the tip of a muslim knife in Holland. Seriously, why are you nothing but total and complete pussies? You do know that those islamic bastards want every single real man of you dead right?

Bad weekend Curtis?

In consideration of Curtis, TimC, we have all been having some bad weekends over here just lately. It has to do with late-Friday 'data dumps' and Saturday-morning radio addresses. Oh, and those Norge Nobel thingies.

While endorsing in large part his overall view, I apologize for its inadvertent application to the esteemed present company.

F*ck off Curtis, cnut.

Rusty.

"...They are just one scant level below the English pussies in Iraq around Basra who were a bunch of chickens and ran away."

Curtis - just a humble suggestion but the next time that the US feels like invading a fly blown &*3!hole, please do it on your own & dont expect the rest of the world to pay for American foreign policy mistakes with the lives of their young men & women

Canadian military deaths in Afghanistan 131. American 847. America is almost exactly 10 times the population of Canada.

For a long time Canada had the only tanks in Afghanistan. The sniper with the world record distance kill was a Canadian in Afghanistan.

Don't blame British troops for Basra.

Blame Parliament. They set the RoE that made it impossible for them to fight without getting cashiered.

Sorta like Obambi is doing to US troops right now.

Curtis, it would have been enough to say 'I am simply appalled at the cheeky way the Italians are doing business,' and then left it at that.

However, the practice is interesting, in light of accusations by liberals that 'no one picks on the Europeans.' The reason, say the liberal trolls, is due to American arrogance and rudeness, total disregard for local customs and lack of respect for their betters (betters being the liberals).

Well, now this sheds a whole new light on things.
The Italians pay protection money. Everyone is satisfied. But has anything really changed? Have they made a difference to the status quo?
Those should be the questions asked, not attacking our allies.

Newsflash: I say this as a military spouse. I would suggest you apologize to our host.