Seems like the only thing that really worked was the Marshal plan. I don’t think it has worked since then. Just simply can’t make it work no matter how much money and blood that is poured into it. 
sorry a little off topic I think
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Take the politicians out of it,take the hand cuffs off and I truly believe that no enemy force on earth could stop the US.
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In fairness, we still have troops in Germany darned near 80 years after they surrendered. 
Edit: I just realized how on-topic this was. The Marshall Plan was rendering aid to an enemy we had just beaten. 
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You are absolutely right. Few tours there my self. Found that I loved those folks. Sometimes enemys can become the very best friends. I have a short story of Berlin vist. To long for here, Might post it stand alone at a later date
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That’s the one thing I can’t shake to this day.Once an enemy of mine always an enemy of mine,. forgiveness doesn’t reside in me anywhere anyhow.
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It an individual thing Sir. Lots of stuff we have to work through for ourselves.
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Starch cotton, BDU, ACU are what I wore during my time. To other soldiers it tells them my time frame. Would do it again,
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I agree 100 percent with this quote. So many people have been sued for rendering aid and it backfires. Call 911 and stay with them on the line and give updates regarding the person who you shot.
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Yes, I did read everything, but my post was to your initial post, and had presumed your next post was directed at @Ouade5, not @Trever1, as there was no symbol showing who it was directed at and it immediately followed Ouade5’s post. Both don’t have information on their profiles. I did not read your last post until after I addressed your first post, so I left as I still disagreed with that post.
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Yes, I was only teasing. When I first moved down, a coworker would tease me about shooting me with a Minié Ball. 
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There are actually Good Samaritan laws here in the US that protect regular people from prosecution if they attempt to render aid to the best of their abilities.
But if someone had just tried to seriously harm me or my family I would be very cautious about letting my guard down to render aid until I was 100% certain that person was no longer a threat and 100% certain that they didn’t have any accomplices that could show up at any moment. My focus would be on making sure my family and I were as safe as possible and getting the proper first responders on scene ASAP to deal with the situation.
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Not my own experience, but I used to do a lot of work with WWII vets, and I heard several of them talk about how they gradually came to see their adversaries (German or Japanese Soldiers) less as ‘enemies’ and more as dumb kids in the same situation they were in, just on the other side. I’ve heard multiple vets say that they had more in common with their wartime adversaries on the battlefield than they did with their own families and friends back home who did not see combat.
There’s another example from U.S. Civil War vets who would have battle reunions. There are all kinds of photos with Federal and Confederate veterans together. They had a kinship from a shared experience, even though they were once trying to kill one another. I know this was not universal (experiences vary) but it was one way some combat veterans coped.
Might be kind of hard to apply to your own experience in Afghanistan. I’m not telling you how to feel.
Personally, I can only say that I never really knew what forgiveness was until I learned what real hatred was. That was a painful lesson I had to learn well into adulthood.
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Arabs are a whole different ball game I’m afraid.What they are willing to do to their own people is inhuman.
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Can’t remember where I heard it but I distinctly remember hearing somewhere:
“I am not aware of any legal requirement to render aid to someone you injured in self defense”.
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Yes… I know it… but I don’t believe in it.
From moral perspective I’m willing to help, I was raised that way. I saved few lives already in Poland and was thanked for that.
Here, I saw people being charged for stupid things. I learned the lesson and won’t change my thinking: take care of yourself, your Family. This is the most important. Don’t do more than is required. Calling 911 is enough from legal perspective. Nobody force you to do something you don’t know how to do it. And I don’t know how to render the aid. 
I’m just a simple man who fought for his life.
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Nearly 2 decades of war and the Taliban, which draw their world view from the 7th century, are back in charge. How sad. Now, the saber rattlers in DC want Congress to print more money for them to spend on the Ukraine conflict and a potential conflict with China.
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Only when I go to the range with my family.
Hope they have their own
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While your not wrong. Remember a lawyer can defend you if you tried to preserve life putting your family first , yes. But remember they can use your words against you. While this is not a hostile place it is not a safe space to espouse certain feelings yes, I know , but we have to be prepared to have what we say scrutinized
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