Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "This Is What Winning Looks Like (Full Length)" video.

+Bucky Monk I seriously doubt those Afghans and you understand "washing hands" the same way. Washing hands and face before prayer, sinple washing hands and properly washing hands are three separate stories. Have you seen pictures of Afghans with the fingernails of their left hands being.. well, not exactly clean? Not very dirty, no, just a bit stained with little brown dots. Even Europeans got into troubles with hygiene in Southern reality, for example, during WWII Germans and Italians run into serious problems with diseases in Africa, Brits didn't. How so? Germans were not stupid, right? Brits had a strict procedure, that included covering the ..hole when it's not used, thus preventing flies from getting in and then out, which dramatically decreased chances of insects spreading illnesses. It might by humiliating to be trated like children, but lessons must be learned, health ismore important than pride.
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A couple days ago I watched a movie about Roman conquests in the lands of Germanic tribes and I immediately Afghanistan came to my mind. See, Romans had no trouble as long as they were dealing with another empires - population there had paid taxes, had laws etc, there was a culture of civilized countries, where in Northern Europe tribes had no idea of that. Same with wars these days, in large parts of Near to Middle East population are not used to do business in civilized ways, they are more used to the rule by force, warlords to them are more natural and well understood authority than national government. I have no idea, if the decentralized, to some degree even anarchic structure of Islam also plays some role here.
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The only way to really civilize countries like that would be to through full scale occupation and partial colonisation by setting colonial authorities in charge, but: 1) we got to "respect local traditions", 2) the cost in money and blood would be insane, so it's completely out of question.
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