Reply #53: It's all good [View All]

"As for "emoticon-laced," I'd love to see how that works, and if you read my post as scathing, I suggest you look around this board a bit to see what scathing really looks like."

I've seen my share of scathing diatribes. I was actually trying to be humorous in an insouciant kind of way. Regarding your much more substantive rebuttal, we are in agreement. I should have specified that I was talking about the most current/modern version of our military. In past wars, chaos and confusion were dominant features and getting LLMF (lost like motherf***ers) was pretty common. I have conducted military operations in foreign urban environments (fairly recently) and understand the lengths that we go to to ensure that soldiers are accounted for at all times and I am speaking from that experence. I have not heard anything about these soldiers having been found. Unless I have missed something, I think my instincts are proving themselves right. I do think the insurgents are maneuvering to deny us the initiative after Zarquawi's death and a campaign of capturing POWs will certainly blunt any offensive we might be thinking of mustering. If I were them, I'd be capturing coalition forces left and right.