250,000 victims.
To put this into scale, there are around 1,300 gas lampposts in London.
For the sake of logistics, let us assume that each victim had only one perpetrator (which is not true, most had dozens/hundreds of perpetrators).
In that case, if Britain were to try, convict, and hang every single perpetrator from a lamppost in London, about 192 perpetrators would need to be allocated per lamppost.
I love that we’re the new Rome. Peace with Persia in the afternoon and a gladiator fight in the evening, all on the Emperor’s birthday. Another 1,000 years.
Civilians will have difficulty understanding what I’m about to say.
But all we ever wanted in GWOT was to be as far away from the “flagpole” as possible.
To be off on our own in the hinterlands.
Getting shot at every day was preferable to the insufferable helicopter parenting the large bases were famous for.
So yes. We would rather be placed in a higher risk situation for our personal safety than suffer through some idiot yelling at us for not wearing a PT belt on a FOB.
It was these same people who would turn us away from the chow hall because we were too dirty after battle.
We would rather risk death on our own than be ruled by risk averse midwits.
And you wonder why I've been saying that Obama and London Stole Fannie and Freddie in 2008?
This is what they were ultimately doing under the hood.
And they stole this from Americans, using Lehman as cover for the theft.
Answer these questions and you'll see what I'm getting at:
Why was Lehman liquidated/executed by Hank Paulson?
Why was AIG (London-based reinsurer) bailed out multiple times?
Why did all of this happen 7 days after a 'report' said Fannie/Freddie were insolvent and nationalized?
2008 was 9/11 for the US mortgage industry times 12.
HOPE and CHANGE MY FAT HAIRY ASS.
"The more homogenous our citizens can be made in these particulars [principles, opinions, and manners], the greater will be our prospect of permanent union."
-George Washington
These are normal Terms of Surrender when you've lost.
People seem to think that the losers are supposed to be compensated for being losers.
Pro Tip: There is no welfare state for war losers.