tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post4257523557797025461..comments2023-08-10T12:55:23.427+01:00Comments on SUBROSA: A Maori Farewellsubrosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-81983030131761765282012-09-01T21:57:03.403+01:002012-09-01T21:57:03.403+01:00Brian, you're so good at research.
Yes your f...Brian, you're so good at research.<br /><br />Yes your facts are right I believe.<br /><br />What a true last paragraph.<br /><br />subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-53906214679688521112012-09-01T21:55:18.507+01:002012-09-01T21:55:18.507+01:00Yes Joe, I have a did notice that and will acknowl...Yes Joe, I have a did notice that and will acknowledge it tomorrow.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-1169959250189162052012-08-31T23:05:11.793+01:002012-08-31T23:05:11.793+01:00Rosie,
What a waste of fine young people.
The Ki...Rosie,<br /><br />What a waste of fine young people.<br /><br />The Kiwis were travelling in a Humvee convoy, something that American troops have needed special permission to do since 2007. The NZDF has trotted out the line that no vehicle would have survived the IED and that the Humvee is the best available vehicle for the conditions in Bamyan Province. Wasn't that the old British Army line before they bought MRAPs and learned that 600lb blasts were survivable? Even EFP blasts can be mitigated with add-on armour.<br /><br />Ironically, the NZ troops were part of the Provincial Reconstruction Tream so their commanders could have upgraded and widened roads, bridges and culverts using money within the development budget to allow heavier, better protected vehicles to operate - even the Estonians and Bulgarians use MaxxPro Dashes in Afghanistan. As the NZ MoD considered selling 35 of its 105 NZ LAVs a couple of years ago (only 13 deployed to Afghanistan), it would appear that the NZDF bought too many of those vehicles that would be ideal for their preferred type of war (ie conventional manoeuvre warfare) and not the long term asymmetric counter-insurgency operations that have been the mode since the end of WW2. <br /><br />Why do governments value the lives of foreigners over their own people? Just like the Vietnamese, the Afghans know that they only have to wait another couple of years before the infidels leave and they win - or another ten years, or a hundred - because they are still playing the same home fixture since Alexander the Great marched through. Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06358349301959327747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-62048805460076658772012-08-31T21:32:44.920+01:002012-08-31T21:32:44.920+01:00There were three corteges there JRB and I think ha...There were three corteges there JRB and I think having the sniper present is part of the ceremony. Perhaps in the same way as some regiments here hold arms aloft on occasions?subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-83747293824722388382012-08-31T21:31:22.024+01:002012-08-31T21:31:22.024+01:00Sorry I should have acknowledged them too Joe. I ...Sorry I should have acknowledged them too Joe. I was just emotional about the way in which the Haka is used.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-74608295253562637922012-08-31T18:12:38.795+01:002012-08-31T18:12:38.795+01:00Another young life sacrificed on the alter of what...Another young life sacrificed on the alter of what is proving to be a totally misguided military intervention.<br /><br />... but I’m curious – why the sniper in the ghillie suit leading the cortege?JRBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01864418763227369458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-70529591447215328082012-08-31T17:34:05.970+01:002012-08-31T17:34:05.970+01:00Our other antipodean allies lost another 5 x soldi...Our other antipodean allies lost another 5 x soldiers too.<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/9511058/Australia-renews-commitment-to-Afghanistan.html<br /><br />True-to-form, their political leader, safely ensconced in a comfortable office somewhere, vowed to continue to waste <i>other</i> people's lives in support of her political ambitions.Joe Publichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07829909061904690380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-14397250076604088372012-08-31T17:20:38.486+01:002012-08-31T17:20:38.486+01:00You're right OR, little has been mentioned abo...You're right OR, little has been mentioned about this war this summer.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116690042850060767.post-37280435034042706062012-08-31T10:00:44.802+01:002012-08-31T10:00:44.802+01:00A different approach to the indifferent ignorance ...A different approach to the indifferent ignorance of our own Government's suppression of this war's news. They wish to forget it so ergo, must the rest of us.Oldrightiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03192587284458430556noreply@blogger.com