Well well well, I guess "some" of your singaporean countrymen in
this forum are guilty of generalization too yah?
To be brutally honest even if it is`nt already too clear by now,
those were specific incidents which really are`nt that scattered in
occurences to say they are`nt generalizations as you put it but a
general way of life. It would not be too wrong to say that it
really should be that way; at least from the view from down south.
Hmm..actually, in many countries too, if you know what i mean.
If you compare our armed forces to yours, we may not have the most
modern facilities or most modern equipment or the most skilled
engineers to support our battlesystems but do not underestimate our
determination, the morale among our forces are generally high and
we are very united and and if I may compares to yours is the exact
opposite, you are divided amongst yourselves, if you look into your
newspapers you have countrymen today who are so divided over a
range if issues of national service thats some don't want to serve
for whatever reason and in forums such as this some even openly
declare they will not aid or fight for your country in the hour of
need and prefer to run away what is that? ... tsk tsk tsk
uh hum..now that`s assuming and generalizing..not that it has
occured in reality really. What makes you think your own ilk would
do the same??? Given the sporadic outages of dissent and inability
to measure such things in all countries, you are grasping at thin
air in order to measure capability. Can I say, the recent protest
over the petrol fuel hike is an indication of a permanent tear in
the fabric of your nationhood? Look at you own National Service and
need i say more.
Having a modern army does not win wars .. whats the point of having
such a modern army if your people cannot even pull
together.
Debatable.But in most cases where life and family are at stake,
most do eventually pull together. And when it happens on both sides
of the fence, technology and capability does measure up immensely
and matter critically.
