You argue like Bill O'Reilly, y'know? Too much "but this is what I REALLY want to talk about."
While I can't speak for every meandering point you've gone off on, post-Bush occupation analysis reveals that Iraq would've rolled over for us, if we'd approached the conquest differently. We as a culture are not at war with Iraqi culture. Our fascist leadership managed to create the post-invasion civil war with ourselves in the hot seat, with the bonus of the extremist Islam groups trying to start trouble. (When the Iraqi villagers realized that the Iranians were behind many of their insurrections, many of them began coalescing to attack back on their own. These days, when Iraqi authorities are attacked, they bring their own CSI along with the American troops to track down the criminals.) The various actual intelligent types were trying to come together from the beginning, and have made good progress. No, its still dangerous, but life is like that.
Its perfectly possible for people with former military history and familial military connections to exist without support from the military. Most people call it being an average citizen. But unless there are military members taking off with their weapons to participate in private ideological armies, they are not rogue military. I am no longer military. If I hie off to Greece to kill Turks with my cousins, I am not going 'rogue'. A more pertinent example might be American Jews joining the Israeli army.
I wouldn't say it doesn't happen...I know American soldiers took vacations to work as mercenaries enough that the military limited the amount of vacation time you could save up. Maybe thats the way it is in this comic, I don't know. You've read it, I haven't. But the impression is one of out of shape civilians volunteering and training, not military. (And that mustachio is COMPLETELY against regulation.)
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While I can't speak for every meandering point you've gone off on, post-Bush occupation analysis reveals that Iraq would've rolled over for us, if we'd approached the conquest differently. We as a culture are not at war with Iraqi culture. Our fascist leadership managed to create the post-invasion civil war with ourselves in the hot seat, with the bonus of the extremist Islam groups trying to start trouble. (When the Iraqi villagers realized that the Iranians were behind many of their insurrections, many of them began coalescing to attack back on their own. These days, when Iraqi authorities are attacked, they bring their own CSI along with the American troops to track down the criminals.) The various actual intelligent types were trying to come together from the beginning, and have made good progress. No, its still dangerous, but life is like that.
Its perfectly possible for people with former military history and familial military connections to exist without support from the military. Most people call it being an average citizen. But unless there are military members taking off with their weapons to participate in private ideological armies, they are not rogue military. I am no longer military. If I hie off to Greece to kill Turks with my cousins, I am not going 'rogue'. A more pertinent example might be American Jews joining the Israeli army.
I wouldn't say it doesn't happen...I know American soldiers took vacations to work as mercenaries enough that the military limited the amount of vacation time you could save up. Maybe thats the way it is in this comic, I don't know. You've read it, I haven't. But the impression is one of out of shape civilians volunteering and training, not military. (And that mustachio is COMPLETELY against regulation.)