How to Lose an Army

[Reynaldo 0]

...and with one sweeping generalisation, the whole of the Middle East population is tarred with the mighty sarcasm brush. It's just too bad ethnic cleansing is not tollerated by the the namby pamby liberal brigade...

I thought that was called genocide....

[Peikko 1,575]

Oh, that was then...it's called ethnic cleansing nowadays.

[Reynaldo 0]

Oh, that was then...it's called ethnic cleansing nowadays.

Genocide brings bad PR, right?

[mawilson 2,133]

Oh, that was then...it's called ethnic cleansing nowadays.

Genocide brings bad PR, right?

Genocide and ethnic cleansing are different things.

[mawilson 2,133]

Ethnic cleansing is the removal by one ethnic group of other ethnic groups

from the population of a particular area (e.g. Serbs against Croats and Muslims

in the former Yugoslavia, or Israeli Jews vs Palestinians.)

Genocide is the policy of deliberately killing a nationality or ethnic group.

[Peikko 1,575]

I stand corrected, although the 'removal' of the serbs/croats seemed to involve a lot of killing on both sides...

I guess that's also what the Tutsi's/Hutu thing was called too?

[Reynaldo 0]

Ethnic cleansing is the removal by one ethnic group of other ethnic groups

from the population of a particular area (e.g. Serbs against Croats and Muslims

in the former Yugoslavia, or Israeli Jews vs Palestinians.)

Genocide is the policy of deliberately killing a nationality or ethnic group.

You are right.

I stand corrected.

I stand corrected, although the 'removal' of the serbs/croats seemed to involve a lot of killing on both sides...

I guess that's also what the Tutsi's/Hutu thing was called too?

I think THAT was genocide.

[mybackpages 0]

Ethnic cleansing is the removal by one ethnic group of other ethnic groups

from the population of a particular area (e.g. Serbs against Croats and Muslims

in the former Yugoslavia, or Israeli Jews vs Palestinians.)

Genocide is the policy of deliberately killing a nationality or ethnic group.

You are right.

I stand corrected.

I stand corrected, although the 'removal' of the serbs/croats seemed to involve a lot of killing on both sides...

I guess that's also what the Tutsi's/Hutu thing was called too?

I think THAT was genocide.

Or as the world community liked to refer to it at the time - not genocide , but "acts of genocide"

[Peikko 1,575]

Regardless, it would seem that some would like to get rid of problems by some kind of ellimination of whole peoples because they are just too messy and their problems might take away some of the symathy/charity which would be better employed in the West, the real 'inocent victims'...

[mybackpages 0]

Regardless, it would seem that some would like to get rid of problems by some kind of ellimination of whole peoples because they are just too messy and their problems might take away some of the symathy/charity which would be better employed in the West, the real 'inocent victims'...

There appears to be so much truth in that statement, that it just makes me really sad.

[Reynaldo 0]

Regardless, it would seem that some would like to get rid of problems by some kind of ellimination of whole peoples because they are just too messy and their problems might take away some of the symathy/charity which would be better employed in the West, the real 'inocent victims'...

Can we just leave them alone?

[mawilson 2,133]

Regardless, it would seem that some would like to get rid of problems by some kind of ellimination of whole peoples because they are just too messy and their problems might take away some of the symathy/charity which would be better employed in the West, the real 'inocent victims'...

Can we just leave them alone?

No man - at least not for another 40 years or so. We need to drain their oil fields first.

[Reynaldo 0]

No man - at least not for another 40 years or so. We need to drain their oil fields first.

That is sad...

[mawilson 2,133]

No man - at least not for another 40 years or so. We need to drain their oil fields first.

That is sad...

Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine

fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?

[Reynaldo 0]

Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine

fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?

It all comes down to coke, doesn't it?