Raiders steal tanker from army barracks

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Nice to see that you are engaging the topic at hand, Morpheus. You mention reasonable debate but you closed the discussion on your own forum. You also took 2 sly digs at AH on there too.

Morpheus wrote: »

Wasting your time Feeney, this is the wrong place to engage anyone in a sensible matter.

you must disengage your common sense when entering any thread in After Hours, its a free for all location where we can all blow off steam, trolling is down to a fine art on most threads, in fact most of the folk on this thread must have their own bridges to live under and judging by the derogatory comments about the army they don't get out from under the bridge all that often.

Some posters have exposed themselves for what they are, quite possibly the most unpatriotic individuals in this country, it seems that in this time of austerity that EVERY aspect of Govt is fair game, they show blatant disregard to our nations war dead, no respect whatsoever for any Irish soldier who has served and/or died in service to the state whether here at home or overseas. These in my book are the lowest form of scum that you can find in any society.

Its plain from the lack of information they possess about the defence forces, that they are wholly out of their depth and the only recourse is to shout, like Brick Tamland in Anchorman - "LOUD NOISES".

Comments like for example, sure were neutral - which Ireland is constitutionally not and if we were we'd have to quadruple our military expenditure to defend our own borders without being able to depend on neighbours and partners in europe or through Nato PFP arrangements.

Or concerning the DF budget, compared to our neighbours in almost ALL of the EU is an infinitesimally small part of our GDP and one of the lowest in the world of developed countries.

Theres no common ground at all and no drive by posters to educate themselves about the security forces of the republic. Im not surprised anyway.

Its very easy to sit behind a keyboard and fountain drivel onto the web drowning out all intelligent and factual statements in a sea of sh*te, many experts here today are a prime example of that, regardless of what intelligent argument is put up, they will beat it with a "we outnumber you and because i said so, louder than you" reply. Quite childish really.

They don't represent the majority opinion of the country, but they like to think that they do, most are quite educated people but they come to after hours and leave their brains at the door, these individuals are just the loudest voices in this place and as such, like any baby who has spat the dummy, they will scream and cry and rant and are best to be ignored.

If you feed the troll, you do so at your own peril!

I've personally found the comments, so unfounded and so totally wrong as to be quite comically entertaining. I don't take anyone here seriously, its after hours, its all a laugh. Yeah the army is ****e, couldn't defend this and that etc... Those of us who do know how the big bad world works, know the true picture.

If some here engaged in sensible debate, maybe we could meet in the middle, see each others viewpoints, agree to disagree, yet nevertheless walk away with a better understanding of our adversaries viewpoints and understand where they've come from to have that point of view. I may never agree with them, but at least id understand why they think the way they do. Right now, the only service they have done themselves is to leave me believing that this thread is mostly being posted to from the lobotomy ward in a mental home.

Lots of love,

Carry on.

Morpheus wrote: »

I still dont see how firing 3 or 4 assault rifles into a 40 ton mobile incendiary, travelling at 30 or 40 mph towards the brick room you are in and the heavily urbanised T Junction with houses with civilians sleeping in them, directly behind you, is a sensible idea.