Comments on: Captive Soldier Appears on Taliban Video

Soldier Says on Tape that He's Scared He 'Won't Be Able to Go Home'

[differnet]

Hey cs4466. If they are female soldiers.... By the way, when the hell did you serve?! Soldiers talk about food, sometimes more than they talk about sex. Heck, I've sat around and even, can you believe it, talked about movies and books during my time in service. Geesh. Can you put down your stereotypes for a moment. Most guys between the ages of 18 and 24, military or civilian, talk about women incessantly. However, once a guy gets past the raging hormone period of life, they do have other interests.

[cs4466]

Fine. You show me the soldier that doesn't talk about ganking women 24/7 and I'll show you a silent heterosexual. They're rarer than unicorns.

[differnet]

You know, I have never read a bunch of sophomoric quotes in my life as I have read on this board. First, the media is not anyone's pawn. We are Americans. One news story is not going to change what we need to do. Second, Afghanistan is a completely different ball of wax than Iraq. It's a completely different enemy. Third, can we get a little real world. There are people in the world who will not resovle things peaceably. The Taliban shot women in the head for going out of their homes without a male relative. If you want to negotiate with people like that, than you are either a raving sexist or a lunatic. Finally, let the military do it's job. This young man is doing his job. He's trying to stay alive long enough for us to find him and extract him. Consider the job that was done in rescueing the captain held by pirates off the coast of Somalia. Give the military a clear mission and rules of engagement and then get out of their way. If it is possible to get this guy back alive, they will. I served during the Gulf War and while the miltiary is filled with human beings who can screw up, compared to the rest of society, I consider it one of the most competent organizations on the planet. When it screws up, it's generally because the politicians have their noses in the decision making process.

[warsucks]

Hear, hear.
The media is no one's intentional pawn, anyways. There have been times that, personally, I have wished that the media would have kept their collectively large traps shut. You are definately right, though. That alone will never stop the military. If, during the Cold War, no one had ousted the dictatorship there, maybe we wouldn't have as much trouble from them.

Although I fully agree woth the rest of your statements, I believe that the military system could use a little help clearing some of the unneccesary red tape. My family and I recently were shipped to India, and the ammount of paperwork that we had to repeat because it wasn't "current enough" was quite exasperating. The papers themselves had a label saying that they would be good for up to a year. But the personnel recieving said they were only good for six months. This was but a recent example of the many things the military could change if and when they found the time.

As a rule, however, as an organization, I have never been prouder to have served with any better.

Thank you very much for being one of the few voices of reason on this entire page.

[differnet]

You think he doesn't know that?!?!? Geesh, he's doing what he needs to do to stay alive long enough for us to hopefully extract him. I love you guys who never once served a day in your life, pontificating on what service personnel know and don't know. He will say whatever he needs to say to stay alive and good on him. His job is to stay alive now. The job of the people who will be assigned to get him out will be to find him. He's doing his job. What the heck is wrong with you people.

[bigbob88]

Well, I guess if we are going to occupy a country because of what some Saudis did in 2001, we should be prepared for the consequences. This is not a rallying cry for more military there, this is a small cost of the occupation. If we weren't in their back yard, this Soldier would be fine. And it would not be a mistake to kill him in their minds, it would be some measure of retribution for the numerous lives america has taken from Afghan families. I cannot believe there are still some so naive to think that an occupation will no have casualties, and that this occupation will somehow have a positive outcome. We have been there for 8 years, and are no better now than when we went in. KCITS, you have zero resolve to do anything or you would be there already, so pipe down you coward and stop commiting to using American lives so you can thump your chest like some stupid school yard bully.

[Chuck224]

Hey pythoncharley, I agree wholeheartedly with you, but you have your political parties bass-ackwards. The Dems and their leader think they can invite these idiots to dinner and talk this out with a peaceful ending.

[YCantWeAllGetAlong]

No wonder he is scared. The second video will be of them chopping off his head. They are barbarians and we have no business being there. Let them deal with their own vicious, murdering citizens themselves and bring our soldiers HOME. Congress, sitting in their posh, air-conditioned offices are so far removed from reality that they don't care ONE BIT or they would bring them home now.

[underdogus09]

John Wayne? Patton? he,he wake up dude those day's are loooong gone

[underdogus09]

"Military condemns video of soldier captured in Afghanistan"
just shackle him and waterboard him because Chenney said it's not torture.

[speakinup22]

Much prefered to having your head sawed off.

[nextgenman09]

Did you think that plan up after a nice cold Belgianweiser and a few laps of NASCAR? What about the mothers and babies a carpet bombing would kill?