The chinese word for crisis is made up of two characters, wei1+ji1.
Now, wei1 means danger, and ji1 does mean opportunity, but in chinese that does not necessarily have positive connotations, it simply means there is a chance that something may occur. It could be better translated as occassion.
ji1hui4 is the TRUE word for opportunity, and it could be translated literally as: ji1=opportunity(occasion) + hui4=can/to be possible/to meet ==>an opportunity or occasion to meet
to it as not as cut and dried as many motivational speakers would make it out to be.
America's "acts of war" have brought the world a period of relative peace and stability unparalleled since the first caveman picked up a rock and bashed his neighbor over the head.
We're not perfect, but at least we are trying
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I am in the Army, serving in the Infantry. Quite a few of my senior NCOs were in Somalia and served with the Rangers. The intensity and severity of the situation over there has marked many of them, especially my Platoon Sergeant, forever. What they did was the hardest thing that anyone could do, and no civilian will ever be able to truely comprehend the effect that taking a life has on somebody.
My senior leaders like to impress upon the younger soldiers, not in the "yeah! kill them all" hollywood stereotype, but in a more somber and serious way; that sometimes, in order to survive, you have to do things that do not seem right to you.
That is what those soldiers did over there. And many of them are haunted -to this day- not by the fact that they had to shoot the civilians being used as human shields, but by the fact that the somalis were USING them as human sheilds.
BTW, there was no "carpet bombing", there wasnt even any air support. And I, nor any of my fellow soldiers would intentionally target civilians. For soldiers like that, you will have to look to the movies.
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The chinese word for crisis is made up of two characters, wei1+ji1.
Now, wei1 means danger, and ji1 does mean opportunity, but in chinese that does not necessarily have positive connotations, it simply means there is a chance that something may occur. It could be better translated as occassion.
ji1hui4 is the TRUE word for opportunity, and it could be translated literally as:
ji1=opportunity(occasion) + hui4=can/to be possible/to meet ==>an opportunity or occasion to meet
to it as not as cut and dried as many motivational speakers would make it out to be.
I am in the army right now, and according to the latest GSA catalog, a replacement toilet seat costs $8.00, mounting kit included.
Sorry dude, the 80s are over.
Dont let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
America's "acts of war" have brought the world a period of relative peace and stability unparalleled since the first caveman picked up a rock and bashed his neighbor over the head.
We're not perfect, but at least we are trying
I am in the Army, serving in the Infantry. Quite a few of my senior NCOs were in Somalia and served with the Rangers. The intensity and severity of the situation over there has marked many of them, especially my Platoon Sergeant, forever. What they did was the hardest thing that anyone could do, and no civilian will ever be able to truely comprehend the effect that taking a life has on somebody.
My senior leaders like to impress upon the younger soldiers, not in the "yeah! kill them all" hollywood stereotype, but in a more somber and serious way; that sometimes, in order to survive, you have to do things that do not seem right to you.
That is what those soldiers did over there. And many of them are haunted -to this day- not by the fact that they had to shoot the civilians being used as human shields, but by the fact that the somalis were USING them as human sheilds.
BTW, there was no "carpet bombing", there wasnt even any air support. And I, nor any of my fellow soldiers would intentionally target civilians. For soldiers like that, you will have to look to the movies.