Bye-bye INF treaty?

Quadibloc wrote:

We don't have the option of waging war as the Romans did.

America loves every innocent civilian on the planet, and abominates
genocide, the evil crime of the Nazi enemy.


Yes, but what about the Nazi's _good_ crimes...everyone forgets those. ;-)
As far as laying siege to a place, remember what happened to Fallujah?
We threw everything at that place outside of Greek Fire and rotting
cattle corpses.

Pat

Paul Repacholi wrote:
(Derek Lyons) writes:


A) Trident's don't patrol in the Med. (We gave that up as soon as
we could.)


There is a special term for subs in the Med.

`Dead Meat'

No where to hide, no where to dive...



The Mediterranean Sea's average depth is 1,500 meters; that's probably
over three times the maximum safe depth of a Trident submarine.

Pat

Herb Schaltegger wrote:
This is just about the oldest military/foreign policy mistake in the world.
Ask those foreign barbarians how increasing the numbers of the Legions worked
out for the Romans . . .


" 'They who are called National Guard, they go the hospital?' What's
that supposed to mean?" ;-)

Pat

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:25:00 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote
(in article ):

We threw everything at that place outside of Greek Fire and rotting
cattle corpses.

"Cherchez les vaches!"

"Que?"

"Cherchez les vaches!"

"MMMMmmmmmoooooOOOOOOOOOoooooo!"

"JAY-sus CHRIST!!!! RUN AWAY RUN AWAY!!!"

--
You can run on for a long time,
Sooner or later, God'll cut you down.
~Johnny Cash

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:10:27 -0600, OM
wrote:

...A lot of SciFi writers tend to joke that it'll be Des Moines -
probably because it's one of the most mispronounced city names in the
US

No.1 being, of course, Los Angeles.

Brian

Rand Simberg wrote:
They could only do that if Kansas City were on the Mississippi
River...


Yeah, I caught that little slip this morning.
This explains why the state is called Missouri. :-[

Pat

OM wrote:
...Yeah, but Lee became a jerk towards The King, Jack picked up his
toys and went over to create some newer Gods for DC - and got screwed
by Carmine Infantino - while Steranko gave up what he did best and
tried to become a magazine publisher. This set up a chain of events
that allowed Marvel to get ruined by some big fat Jabba the Hut clone
from Brooklyn and a bunch of lazy Limey ******s who think killing off
heroes and upsetting the status quo will save the comic book industry.



Apparently, Galactus isn't going to be in the new FF Silver Surfer
movie, which is sort of like doing Starship Troopers sans the
powersuits, which is of course just what they did.

Pa

In article ,
Herb Schaltegger wrote:
but once the US Cavalry figured out the right tactics, the Apaches etc.
were eventually forced to give up
...Yeah, but I don't think giving the Taliban blankets laced with
smallpox will do the trick these days.

There are a LOT of differences between the Apaches of the 19th century and
the Iraqi insurgency of today and merely increasing troop counts won't do a
damn bit of good...

Agreed, but you'll notice that I *didn't* say "once the US Cavalry was
massively reinforced" (or even "once the US Cavalry was minimally
reinforced").

Fighting guerillas effectively does require adequate numbers -- and this
Administration has consistently ignored unpalatable estimates of how many
troops were really needed in Iraq -- but more importantly, it requires
brains and insight. Just putting more troops in country, doing more of
the same old thing, is not the answer. Whether the White House and DoD
fully grasp that fact, or are just giving it lip service, remains to be
seen...
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Herb Schaltegger wrote:
"Cherchez les vaches!"

"Que?"

"Cherchez les vaches!"

"MMMMmmmmmoooooOOOOOOOOOoooooo!"

"JAY-sus CHRIST!!!! RUN AWAY RUN AWAY!!!"


http://www.amazon.com/Toy-Vault-Mont.../dp/B0006JGW9S

Pat

Paul Repacholi wrote:

(Derek Lyons) writes:
:
: A) Trident's don't patrol in the Med. (We gave that up as soon as
: we could.)
:
:There is a special term for subs in the Med.
:
:`Dead Meat'
:
:No where to hide, no where to dive...

Sonar conditions in the Med generally suck rocks. You can't kill 'em
if you can't find 'em.

--
"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the
truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
-- Thomas Jefferson