MrMedic wrote:Soldiers of the GCT, look at yourselves, look at your slogans and taglines:
"GCT Travel Service - Travel to unknown lands, meet unkown people and send them to hell"
You come to a country that is not at war with anyone, in order to support a government that is allready long overdue for retirement, ready to kill or "nuke" anything and anyone who gets in your way.
This guy's got a point, though - up until the point where he goes for the old Vietnam 'US soldiers, why do you think you are here?' slogan. I mean, for once they're sending troops to a country and you don't have to suspect it's just to secure oil pipelines or exploit the country in another way afterwards - Lerando and the world went along well pretty much ignoring each other for the past few decades, and there is nothing really in Lerando that business bigshots could exploit once the country is 'theirs'.
In a way, Lerando - or at least the Ravens - did start a war by flooding the rest of the world with drugs, guns and by killing tens of thousands of innocents. If you ask me, it's clear that Lerando has problems, problems it can't solve for itself, and problems that are starting to strongly affect the rest of the world as well.
But MrMedic is still right in one thing: In the entire public discussion so far, it was always only about the military side. They're only sending an army of soldiers, and nobody seems to care about how to rebuild the country after the war - I don't blame the GCT, they
are only soldiers and that's what their sent for, but macho slogans like that don't make it any better. After all, that's why they sent the GCT, and didn't let the US cowboys go in and gun everyone down.
On that topic, they confirmed a few days ago that that one German Commander from GCT is going to Lerando as well:
Personally, I think Richter is an asshole. Dunno if you followed the incident in Georgia back then, but this guy had the guts to stand in the media afterwards and say it was 'necessary military security procedure' to hold a completely uninvolved camera team from the US and their local guides at gunpoint and even shoot one of the men in front of the others when he tried to get away. I know they found proof that the guy was actually connected to the terrorists and was planning something later, but this ice-cold "we're soldiers, we're here to shoot the bad guys, and caring for people's rights and what becomes of the people is not our job" attitude is what's wrong with the entire operation, and the politicians are doing nothing to cough up a few bucks to make sure Lerando people can rebuild their lives and their country after all the "bad guys" have been killed.
Been here since B08... :)