Comments on: Barbara Sumner Burstyn and the war in Afghanistan

By: ray spring

ray spring — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 09:45:15 +0000

‘The Job is not Finished Until it is Maintained.’
To put in equipment and not have any viable method of maintaining the stuff is a total waste of money and manpower. And womanpower. Maintenance is critical. My experience was in Hong Kong. The British Army ran around putting all sorts of stuff on the outlying HK islands. Eventually I got annoyed about it and phoned up the officer responsible for the work. “How are you Maintaining the stuff?” His answer was, we dont. We go back in ten or fifteen years and do the job again.
If there is no maintenance plan then the effort and cash is totally wasted. Which then brings me to the Pacific. We can monitor that the work is working. We can ensure cash is not wasted. We get a long term relationship with the people.
David, please go back to school and think before you make comments that are so easily demonstrated to be wrong.

By: david

david — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:20:52 +0000

Hate to brake it to you but we already work in the south pacific building schools community areas etc etc you obviously have no idea what we do that’s also including these things in afghan wake up plzzzz!!!!

By: Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:56:42 +0000

I find it amazing that people can talk about a military occupation and say the conversation is not about politics.

By: peter

peter — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 23:55:48 +0000

correct , it nothing to do with politics . left or right , it just another celebrated big head who knows better than all of us except how to behave in a decent manner, apparently the soldier that gave her the hardest time was next to her and a another soldier when they died , what can you expect ? a nice young girl with her life ahead of her , a medic . what has happened in the world that someone would say these things about her

By: david

david — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 11:35:48 +0000

She wanted a reaction she got one she has her freedom of speech we have ours, we should ignore her stupidity as she is probably getting off on all this hype and attention as we speak! She’s in show business (which means she will do anything to know get recognised) to be honest she probably needed to spark her career so she created this mess! Low to say the least! Shame on you and i don’t care what happens to you and KARMA is a bigBBBBIIIIIGGGGGG bit&h lady! UNFORTUNATELY U WILL GET WHAT’S COMING TO YOU !!!! (Probably from some enraged person out there and you seem to has pissed of majority of your country so good on you!!!!)lol unlucky for you Barbara oh that’s right your the victim now!!!!woman plzzzzzz

By: dave

dave — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 11:18:17 +0000

Really, and u know this how? Obviously u have been deployed as part of a PRT (I prob know u if that the case )? I beg to differ if u look at it now compared to when we first went there I’d say there’s a big difference, i should know I have been there twice beginning and just recently believe me there is a big difference but every other person on here who has never been there ever seems to know better!PLZ PPL don’t judge!

By: peter

peter — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 05:10:57 +0000

thousands have made the point , everyone has been run out of Afghanistan who ever went there , it s a waste of time materials and lives . her views may be valid in fact they are , all im saying is she is a nasty big headed monomaniacal vile type , with money to burn ,
if some one gave you a hard time , in her case it was some things written not physical could you get on the plane the next day to Canada ? how much money does this woman have ? even people with a bit of money would hide out in the south island , she is so wealthy she flees to Canada and i guess she is eating and living well there as well . she is proberly on the list of new Zealand s top 10 for being the most wealthy capitalists

By: ray spring

ray spring — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 04:58:17 +0000

Sumner raised a good point, maybe in a poor way. New Zealand is not ‘making a difference’ in Afghanistan. Our trops would be far better employed in the South Pacific helping people who want schols etc., not in Afghanistan where the schools and hospitals are destroyed as soon as we abandon them.

By: peter

peter — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 02:46:49 +0000

after she was attacked she brought the blame on to “”men “” as men generally defend woman what does she expect , she quotes a comment , rape her with chain saw > well its might be disgusting but it is not serious , he is saying she disgusts him and would not touch her with his body only with a instrument , she does not mention the other comments but only the most extreme , her comments about the deceased soldier were so upsetting you can expect any comment or threat to be made against you . burstyns has a big head proberly from her constant international travel and thinks normal human behaviour does not apply to her

By: peter

peter — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 02:28:35 +0000

all wars seem good and just at the time , afterwards they seem like a waste of time and lives , historical knowledge will show u that any war in Afghanistan will never be won , if we were not there the same people who don’t want us there know would be saying we should be there due to the 10 th century behaviour of the Taliban
the opinion of a Champaign socialist who jets between Canada and nz is worth nothing , , especially when its a attacking a poor dead girl whose life was worth much more than the rich girl who likes to get handouts from capitalists and use quotes from marx on her site
she is a disgusting human being no matter what politics she has ,