Harry Krause wrote:
Don White wrote:

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:17:54 GMT, Don White
wrote:


Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:


That would be a great name for a band.

Damn Canadian Aliens from Outer Space

It could be a transitional techno-industrial-dance-rhythm and blues
band with a touch of French influence.

OH OH!!
Damn French Canadian Aliens from Outer Space.

Much bettererrer.

Why are you dissin' the French?


"Dissin' the French?"

Absolutely not - I don't know how you could read that as a diss.

Personally, I would love to play lead guitar in a band named Damn
French Canadian Aliens from Outer Space.

It's just a great name for a band.


They softened the Viet Cong up for you all through the 50's and you
still couldn't win.


Now see, that was uncalled for.

Just having some fun and you took it down to the lowest level.

Lighten up.


Actually, I was just throwing the joke back. Seems a lot of people
are still super sensitive about that war.
I have the feeling that you did your duty and more on your tours so
I'm certainly not saying the loss reflects on you.
Seems a few clown in here think you need a nanny. They insult you more
than I ever could.
As far as the idiot who claims I hate all things American...wonder if
he got the point I made by quoting an American to suit the circumstance.




The loss in Vietnam was a harbinger.

I'm sure our military forces can take on and defeat any modern uniformed
military force waging traditional warfare, assuming no great disparity
in the order of battle or availability of troops. That is, we can take
on and defeat uniformed, traditionally organized forces that are smaller
than ours, the same size as ours or perhaps somewhat larger.

What our military cannot do is defeat a large, well-organized,
non-uniformed and non-traditional group or groups of motivated partisans
in areas outside of urban areas. Thus, we flopped in Vietnam and we're
flopping in Iraq, even though we defeated the Iraqi army, and why the
Taliban are re-emerging in Afghanistan, and why the Israelis are having
so much trouble with Hezbollah and Hamas.



Western countries, like ours, aren't ruthless enough to just go in and
sanitize entire areas to really clean out the problem. I thought the
Israelis might be...but I imagine the US and world opinion are having
some effect.