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    Too many heads now. They want Taliban rule, so give it to them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Conley View Post
    Interesting thoughts.

    While I agree we've always had this sort of risk to our soldiers, the length of these engagements and the repeated deployments seem like something else to consider in the numbers of affected. Even though the violence doesn't compare to Vietnam, we've been at war, sometimes two at once, for over two decades now if you consider GW1 (1991), GW2, and Afghanistans. Granted there was a break between GW1 and GW2, but that is more than outweighed by the overlap of the last two conflicts if you ask me.
    In WWII you were deployed 1 time. And you didn't get to come home until the war was over. Unless you were wounded or killed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    In WWII you were deployed 1 time. And you didn't get to come home until the war was over. Unless you were wounded or killed.
    But they rotated in and out...like on The Pacific when they spent some good time in Australia, right? That war was quite a bit shorter than 20 years, also...

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    They would rotate to a rest phase. They would not come home.

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