Humbleman wrote:I am not supporting Taliban in any means, I don’t like what they did to their own people when they were in government. I am just making the point that determination and bravery often triumph at the end, no matter how powerful the opponent is.
Don't get me wrong on this one. I fully understand your non-aggressive nature. Makes two of us. No apologies necessary for that in my view.
But, what do you think that Europe's people had to deal with 65 years ago during WWI&II? If you have any knowledge of that you know that Europe was in rubble. My country was bombed to ashes. Nothing left. We had floodings in 1953, the Western part of Holland lost everything again a mere 8 years after the start of rebuilding our country from scratch.
Speaking for my people know, we endured the Spanish invasion in 1573/4 and in Alkmaar we turned the Spanish war tide to its first Victorie!
To show you the hardened and scarred core of my people and the Germans, UK etc. etc. aswell as many others across Europe and the World. You forget that what happens in the Middle East is just recent. We seen all horror before and it makes you reason very VERY good, before you act. Diplomacy rules nowadays.
But... when Europe acts... trust me, when the rules are obliterated by a new WWIII power, and our true freedom is at risk, that new enemy meets with the core of Europes people. Tough to the very last bone.
Those wars in the Middle East look like coffee and daily cake when compared how my grandad had to search the streets for food between German and English/Canadian bombardments between eachother on our soil. Just to give you a smell of my core when the crap really touches on our fan.
All this suffering is one of the reasons my country nowadays gives the highest expenditure of any world country to humanitarian aid and development work... We've been there many times before. And we care about your freedom. Its the basic thing in life.
Determination and bravery. Hmm, familiar words...