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Tim wrote:
On Nov 19, 9:09 am, Boater wrote:
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I heard that the Somalians captured a giant oil tanker holding
about
100 Million USD worth of crude.
any updates?
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If one takes a **** in the harbor ,, you go to jail, your boat
gets
reposessed, and
your photo is int he paper..
If you hijack an oil tanker, the navy says they don't have
enough ships..
Is this country F..ked up or what.
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Harrrrrry!
What? Our military (and I presume everyone else's) is famous for
crying it never has enough, and for wasting taxpayer dollars.

Tell me, Tim, after blowing a trillion and a half dollars, what
will we have gained in Iraq? What did we gain in Vietnam because
of our protracted militarism there?

What worked for us, militarily, was Desert Storm, Bosnia, some of
our brief incursions to keep the peace, and most of our
humanitarian efforts.

I'm supposed to be impressed by our massive array of ships? What,
precisely, are they doing at the moment? Not much.
The military did not have and does not have a problem winning
battles. Seems as if Viet Nam was a clusterf**k because of the
civilians in control of the military.
I've seen that myth about 1000 times. We got our ass kicked in
Vietnam. Period.

We lost very few battles. And when you are allowed only defensive
positions, you get hosed. Just like not being able to bomb the SAM
missile stockpiles that were stored on embassy row. F'n LBJ.
Picking targets at lunch was a favorite benny for LBJ.



Johnson was gone by January 1969. Nixon expanded the war and also
bombed the crap out of Cambodia and Laos. Then, with peace in sight,
Nixon intiated operation linebacker 2, a bombing campaign against
north vietnam, the biggest bombing campaign engaged in by the US since
world war ii.

We got our ass kicked in vietnam. Your delusions about the war won't
change that.
The people of that time decided it was better to die of drug overdoses,
sexual transmitted disease and the like rather than die in Vietnam.

You should read what the situation was in Vietnam not what the hippies
and newspapers reported.


Uh-huh. Right. The situation in Vietnam was that we were propping up
right-wing dictators. When Buddhist monks set themselves on fire to
protest the government we support, what does that say about us?