Quote Originally Posted by Bob's World View Post
(Warning, self-induced rant to follow. Chalk this up to PTSD: God. Colonial intervention counter guerrilla operations cloaked as "COIN" makes my head hurt. We would never pull this crap if it was at home. We would not even attempt to pull this crap if we were supporting a "first world" nation. We only pull this crap when we go some place we assess as inferior.
I'm not so sure about that. The counter-insurgency influence of the U.S. in Greece wasn't exactly diplomatic either.