Africa at War....Try It

[Riley D. Smith]

Pacific War is close to the top of my list of games to buy next, and I'll definitely be installing AaW. I'll drop you a line when I do. ;)

Sounds fine to me mate. I have really enjoyed SAW as well...both the original and the Arab/Israeli mod. The Soviet "incursion" into Afghanistan was a very interesting theatre where numbers and technology was not always the winner.

Too bad our leaders don't realize it's pretty much the same war WE are fighting now that the Soviets lost at dismally. I am all for protecting our freedoms, and mostly support what this country and our allies do but the Iraq/Afghani wars were mistakes pure and simple.

I couldn't speak my thoughts while on active duty publicly but I predicted pretty much all that happened with that mess. Basically we go in, kick the Iraq army to the stone age, we don't find any WMD's, we find and see Saddam H killed, and we then get embroiled in a quagmire from which it is difficult to extract ourselves from.

I honestly don't believe the past 9 or 10 years in those countries has made me safer or improved the life of my family one bit. But many countries have wasted countless lives in the name of I am not sure what.

Anyway...sorry...where did my political diatribe come from? Ha. Feel free to slap me about for getting too wordy. But I feel I can express myself here among friends and folks that know the reality of war.

One other thing...you want to remember why we fight to stay free? Watch "WW II in HD" by/on the History Channel. Those men (and woman) I believe WERE the greatest generation. I don't believe I could have done the things they did. It is a very sobering, sometimes disturbing, documentary of that horrific but sometimes glorious era.

Now I'll zip it.