Let me make my position clear here.
Most readers from Turkey and Middle East here, as well as African and South American continents, would have an opinion of the the US Army as an institution with murderous and rapist policies.
I am not talking about individuals enlisted in the Army here. Some of them are good people. I had a class mate during MA in the US who were former Army personnel. He told in the class he enlisted to pay off his tuition. He is of Latino descent.
I am talking about the institution. For, when you reform the institution, individuals are reformed, as well. And the vice versa.
In particular, Turkish members with a long memory will remember the
Combined Task Force-Poised Hammer in Norther Iraq and how the US forces provided weapons and training to the separatist elements that carried out bloody terror attacks in the Southeast of Turkey in the 1990s.
@jhungary , you are in the wrong place, I am afraid, to preach and whitewash the most deadly armed force in the world. Turkish people have a bitter memory of your Army. They remember how your soldiers put hoods on Turkish soldiers in Northern Iraq on a warm glorious day of
4th of July, 2003.
US is possibly the least popular in Turkey (along with Pakistan) among Muslim majority countries.
Hooray!
lol, and you are bullshitting even if you are in Turkish forum.
I don't know about you, I have met with, train with and learn with Turkish personnel in real world. I have been to Ankara numerous time both for Business and Pleasure and one of my buddy in PDF is, you guess it, Turkish.
The problem, for you is that some how you hold a view that is not true, but you believe them. Putting your word in microscope and when you said
the US Army as an institution with murderous and rapist policies
What you are saying is US Army, have an policy as an institution to rape and murder people. That's generalizing. It's basically the same as saying "Muslim have a policy to conduct terrorist attack as an institution"
The different between you and a normal people that hate US Foreign Policy is that they present facts, and try not to generalize a situation, a lot of Anti-US material out there, most of them are US, how many of those would target US Army as an Murderous institution like you said?
You try to generalise something, and that would inadvertently turn into an insult. Simply because not all of the people would do what you said and stand for what you said. Which is basically separate you and other anti-US source.
You once said you had done your studies and it's not up to the American to defence their own action? This is basically wrong, when you accuse of someone doing something wrong, the burden of proof is on you, the accuser, the accused have no responsible to bring toward a defence just because you accuse of wrong doing. The proof have to be done by the accuser simply because we believe in a state of "innocents before PROVEN guilty"
Whatever you said, without backing and reference to facts, would only be hearsay, basically the same as gossip. You can, of course spread these disinformation here, no harm, no foul, but when you dress it up and at the same time generalize your view toward a particular group of people, then that will turn into an insult. You just dress your insult up nicer, which filth is being filth, still an insult nonetheless. And you still wonder why your last negative rating was not reverse, you don't think that's an insult simply because you believe in your own insult, and trying to be superior.
As said before, this won't be a problem in Asia and Far East section as you lot are protected over there, and nobody are going to tell you this is wrong or anything, but if you think because of that you are free to do whatever you want in this page, then you are dead wrong.
About whitewashing, do you know what warzone looks like? have you been into a situation on your own live being at stake? You may shoot some gun on a range, or may even had undergo military training as part of being in Taiwan, but you have no ideal what war really like. You said I whitewash the US Army? Maybe this is something you need to ask
@Slav Defence for it, am I actually white wash anything? When I see black, I call it black, I don't call it Red, White and Blue, I don't blow the trumpet like everything is okay, what I said about war is about war only. I tell it as it is. I don't sugar-coats anything, I don't dress that up, that's the main reason my story are liked by Pakistani, Indian and everybody alike here.
And you sir, not me, in the wrong forum.
