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This is a horrible tragedy.
But I can only be thankful that we accidently bombed Canadian troops. What other country in the world would take something like this purely as an accident? The UK? Australia? I think thats it.
Imagine what would have happened if we accidently bombed some Russian peacekeepers.... Or even some Chinese troops who might have been based near there.. all hell could have broken loose.
What 2 other countries in the world have not only shared a very large border between the two, but almost 200 years of peace, without the thought o a war between them? I can't think of any. There's a reason why the US and Canada share the world's largest undefended border.
In wars past, we've seen thousands dead. Most at the hands of the enemy, but I'm sure some were still by "friendly fire" and probably higher in numbers (and a lot easier to cover up).
Today, we are able to keep these losses to a minimum, from enemy and friendly fire.
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[quote]Originally posted by Draggar:
<strong>This is a horrible tragedy.
But I can only be thankful that we accidently bombed Canadian troops...
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Yeah, lucky I guess.
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Not flaming, I understand your point.
Everybody understand it's an accident, including the family. I spoke yesterday with friends of the Montreal's CPL (I kinda know him) and although they are satisfied with the "accident" explanation, they also would like to know how such an accident can happen and what can be done to prevent it in the future.
So far, "friendly fire" as been mre effective than ennemy fire against our troops.
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[quote]Originally posted by Drone2903:
<strong>So far, "friendly fire" as been mre effective than ennemy fire against our troops.
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Not trying to make light of the situation, but casualties in war are down, significantly, due to high-tech wepaonry.
Hell, we can shoot a missle down a chimney, form an unmaned plane. We do everything we can do to reduce the number of casulaties.
It just comes to show, even from the gulf war, how well several countries can work together and eliminate a threat, with minimal loss to life on our side. Its sad that these accidents happen, but if thats the greatest loss of life, it shows that we were able to be an effective alliance together, able to cover each other's a$$es in times of need.
We've seen accidents happen over in Afganistan. A bomb, being dismantled, exploded, killing 4 Greek (I think ) solders. During a prison riot, the US dropped a bomb on our own troops, killing 2 or 3 US troops, and about 5 Pakistani troops. Some choppers went down, killing about 20 (?).
It just shows, even though accidents can happen, we avoided the possible thousands of casulaties on our side, like what happened in all previous wars (excluding the Gulf war).
But still, you're over there, it doesn't matter if you're in hand to hand against Bin Laden himself and get killed, or an accident like this happens, you still died defending your country and the free world. Thats enough to earn one of the highest points of honor in the world.+
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[quote]Originally posted by Draggar:
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But still, you're over there, it doesn't matter if you're in hand to hand against Bin Laden himself and get killed, or an accident like this happens, you still died defending your country and the free world. Thats enough to earn one of the highest points of honor in the world.+</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think it does. Not from the honor point of view (all the alliance troops are heroes, as far as I'm concern), but from the military point that your ennemy is not the one inflicting the worst damage, your own friends are.
I can tell you first hand a lot of military personnel find that aspect of the war very disturbing.
Still, we would all be better off without war.
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