Dave can give you better insights than I can, but...
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Originally Posted by
RTK
COL Jones,
Completely unrelated question that perhaps COL Maxwell could weigh in on as well; Why have we been more successful in the Philippeans with our approach than we have in the Middle East?
In short, because in the Philippines we manage to mind our own business at the same time as we mind to our national interests.
In the Middle East, we made everything our business as well.
Examples:
- In the Philippines, the HN conducts COIN and CT, the US conducts FID
- In the Philippines there are no U.S. detainees, only Philippino detainees
- In the Philippines there are no U.S. bases, only Philippino bases
- In the Philippines, U.S. soldiers don't kill Philippinos, Philippino soldiers do
- In the Philippines the U.S. was invited in by the HN, in the Middle East we invaded
This can go on and on. Clearly not all of this is applicable, but if I was going to summarize the one key difference it is that we tend to treat the Philippine populace more as we would treat the American Populace; but we do not extend that same respect to the Populaces of many of the places we engage elsewhere.
Your PsyOps skills need polishing. Badly.
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Originally Posted by
Voodoun
When I say Europe is lost, I just mean its lost - those people are goofy as sin. The Germans are the worst - seriously, its like if you dont have a pee fetish you arent cool.
We have a number of foreign, including European and German, members and that comment was out of line. You said it, so no sense in trying to retract it or apologize but don't repeat the error.