Methinks this is an effort to draw an Iraq/US Occupation corrallary...as if the US were the moral equivalent of Saddam Hussein or something.
Still, the responses seem oblivious to that fact and they only want to pray for the day their government owned trains finally run on time.
AnArmyVeteran (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 03:39 PM
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What if the United States was attacked & occupied? What would you do?
What do you think would happen if another country invaded our country and occupied it with a huge number of soldiers? Do you think a lot of Americans would sit and do nothing regardless of why the foreign military was here? Or would a lot of Americans shoot at the occupying force?
I'm sure that if the US was occupied it would mobilize a lot of people to strike back at the foreign military. Hell, there are a lot of Americans who belong to militias who want to strike at their own government, so it seems like a given they would constantly attack any foreign occupiers. And ironically, that foreign military would call Americans 'insurgents'.
Imagine the leader of the occupying country saying he will keep his country's military in the US until all of the insurgents are rounded up or destroyed. This is virtually the same scenario we are facing in Afghanistan. No matter how long we have our military there there will always be insurgents. There will always be groups of people in that country that will try to kill members of the invading army, our soldiers.
What I find ironic is that the more right wing a person is the more they want to stay in Afghanistan and kill as many people as they can. I've heard the 'Christian' Glenn Beck saying we should use nukes against them. But they don't ever think that if the tables were turned would they want another country to nuke entire towns in the US just to get a handful of American insurgents?
At the G 20 conference, President Obama left the door wide open to stay in Afghanistan for a long time. This is not just disturbing, it's wrong. No matter how long we stay in Afghanistan it will achieve absolutely nothing. And as soon as we leave, whether it's 1 year or 5,000 years, everything will resort back to the pre-invasion days.
Attacking Afghanistan with a conventional army to fight against unconventional forces was the stupid act by the buffoonish Bush. We couldn't win in Vietnam with a conventional army fighting the Viet Cong just as we won't win in Afghanistan fighting an endless supply of insurgents.
Oregone (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 03:41 PM
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2. Sit in my lawn chair, light a join, and watch the news
asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 03:43 PM
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3. We're occupied now by hostile corporations.
Armies are so last century. Why use an army when Dancing With The Stars is so much more effective.
Lasher (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 03:45 PM
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5. Are you kidding, I would throw a party to celebrate!
I would finally get universal health care, and the occupier would have to pay for it - just like it is in Iraq.
NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 03:46 PM
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6. We treat people who collaborate with the enemy as heroes
Edited on Tue Jun-29-10 03:51 PM by NNN0LHI
Our media and politicians portray Afghans and Iraqis who collaborate with us as great people. The best of the best.
Especially if they have no qualms about killing their fellow countrymen. Remember how the Native American "Scouts" who collaborated with our ancestors were portrayed in movies? They were the big hero's. So was Tonto. So were the Code Talkers. As were the Buffalo Soldiers. See what I mean? Are you starting to see a pattern here yet?
So I figure that's the probably the way to go.
Don
stray cat (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 03:51 PM
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7. If we're truly anti-war - nothing
Edited on Tue Jun-29-10 03:53 PM by stray cat
maybe protest any armed-resistance and have peace parades
The enemies of peace must tremble. I wonder if the intent of the post is lost on DU...not that they would ever admit such a thing.
slackmaster (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 04:04 PM
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9. I'd order a pizza
To be delivered.
Robb (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 04:11 PM
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13. Imagine first that we have no functioning military.
...That's a tough one, but use your imagination.
Now, imagine a right-wing religious sect from Canada started sending millions of dollars to some Michigan Militia types, who started blowing up cops' homes and burning their families alive in parts of your state, for the purpose of intimidation and consolidation of power?
Then they started burning schools? And the Canadian government turned a blind eye to arms being funneled into your state? And your wife, who teaches school, is beheaded slowly with a hacksaw in front of a camera, and the video is posted on YouTube?
Suddenly Germany sends in troops who want to kill those guys. You think you're going to be ticked off at Germany? Really?
Did that idiot just wander in from a pot-legalization thread?
Bonhomme Richard (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 04:17 PM
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16. The truth is that the majority would roll over and just............
try to survive. The same as every other time in history a country was invaded and occupied. People would support fighting back in different degrees right down to the minority that are actually willing to put their lives on the line.
You just described DU; witness: these posts.
femrap (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-29-10 04:58 PM
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25. I pray that the French
occupy us.
Color me surpised!
(Surpised that you didn't choose Venezuela.)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8656704PS - Don't question their patriotism...for France.
