Les_the_Sarge_9_1
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I think you might have missed the slant of my comment Mac, WW2 is a distant bit of history (generally speaking to most of us, I sure wasn't around then at least). Afganistan though is a tedious bit of current news to me. It's annoying in the same way the OJ trial was annoying. Sound bites, slanted video clips, politically biased reporting, all the wonderful qualities of modern warfare. Take for instance the "tragedy" of the 4 Canadians (my own fellow countrymen in fact). I am disgusted with all the fuss that was given to that pathetic over reported non incident. Yes for the families it was a tragedy (duhhhh I ain't saying it wasn't). But a national tragedy?. The massive reporting that incident generated was just plain stupid. Shows how little anyone in the day and age knows about real sacrifice. No the tragedy at the National level is our pathetic politicians expecting our under paid over worked poorly equipped soldiers, are expected to pretend we are a super power like our US partners. And that's why I don't wish to game Afganistan. I have had way to much Afganistan. I suppose if WW2 had been subjected to the same level of reporting it would have looked a lot different to us. Then again, the idiots who proclaim total disclosure publicly as the way to go, would have made life real interesting to the Politicians and Generals who fought that conflict. I have always wondered what TV would have done to WW2. Probably screwed the Allies more than the Axis is my opinion. After all the Axis wouldn't have permitted journalistic freedom. Some jerk would have given away the secret of Enigma and Ultra for sure. Odds are I would be speaking German. I think I will enjoy playing with modern Combat Leader to an extent. But modern to me will mean Korea, Vietnam, Arabs vs Israelis in the 60's and 70's places where the combats were not certain, places where the outcome was not just a matter of how many bombs to drop before clean up time. The US going into Afganistan was an elephant smashing an ant. Just like it was when they smashed the admittedly large Iragi ant. It's no wonder 4 casualties shows up as such a harsh news story. Its not a war, its live fire training, with nasty targets. 4 men getting killed during a war is not worthy of massive national coverage. It made my country look like pathetic whiners too. Now a modern setting I want to see, is the fight that might happen between China and Taiwan. That might end up dragging in the US and then Japan, Korea and maybe Russia. No I don't want that to happen (god I hope no one is dumb enough to think that). But we have reliable stats on the equipment everyone has. We have reliable information about forces involved. And no one can say where that conflict would go. Then there is India and Pakistan. Two countries that seem fairly casual about nuclear exchange. That is going to be quite the game challenge. Certainly more exciting than whack the mole Taliban and AlQueda hunting. Hey we found a cave, lets blow it up, boooooooring.
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