Not my part... and my part is bigger than your part!

CM

"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
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| WRONG, the world belongs to US.
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| "The_navigator©" wrote in message
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| But you are on MY planet.
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| Cheers MC
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| Scott Vernon wrote:
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| SHUT UP you foreigner! Americans are talking.
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| Scotty
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| "The_nagitattor" wrote ...
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| Some have very clear goals. It is usually their means of achieving it
| that they cannot agree on. While many would like to kill all Americans
| as vermin, other wish to scare you to an honest, open negotiation
table.
| That you lump them together reveals your lack of diplomatic smarts.
The
| US's second major problem is that you gain no respect on their eyes as
| you, yourself, carry out acts of terrorism and support terrorist
| countries/regimes -when it suits you.
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| Cheers MC
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| DSK wrote:
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| "Thom Stewart" wrote...
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| Thanks Joe,
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| Doug , I return your Salute! You younger Vets deserve your share of
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| real
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| credit,
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| In my war, we knew who the enemy was and where to find him. It was
| the
| Leaders of the Military's job to defeat him, It was a hard, costly
| war
| but it had a direction and a goal. TOTAL VICTORY!!
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| That, I believe was the last war fought that way.
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| I dunno about that, Thom. War is always a military means to a
political
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| solution for an economic problem. It's a loose
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| term for any large group of people attempting to impose their
| collective
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| will on another group by force. An old fashioned
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| word for terrorism might be sabotage, and every country has tried
it's
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| hand at sending saboteurs into 'enemy' territory.
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| The enemy we are currenty fighting (outside of those enemies of the
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| Constitution that we have, Lord help us, elected over
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| ourselves) uses terrorism or sabotage because that is the only way
they
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| have to fight. They are so poor & so desparate
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| that they have no other means. Therefor they have no big, obvious,
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| economically valuable targets for our military to go
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| after.
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| We have two huge strategic problems, and no leader of any
| industrialized
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| country has AFAIK addressed either.
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| 1- the terrorists are irrational and cannot agree on their own goals,
| so
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| there is no hope of making 'peace' with them on
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| any terms
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| 2- the terrorists make very handy agents for behind-the-scenes
economic
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| groups who profit by the destruction of
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| competitors assets
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| I wish I had some answers myself, contemplating the whole situation
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| makes me very sad.
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| I do salute the Military of today. They have it tougher than we
did.
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| In some ways, it's not so bad. Cell phones & email make it easy for
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| today's servicemen to keep in daily contact with
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| their families. Equipment is much better & more reliable. Living
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| conditions are also a lot better, although it seems to
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| me (and I thought about this a lot back in my day) that the US always
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| chooses to fight in most horrible climates &
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| terrains we can find.
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| Thanks Joe and everyone who serviced and services. To all OUR
| VETS----
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| GOD BLESS AMERICA; And "I'LL DRINK TO THAT!!"
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| I'll drink to that, too, Thom!
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| Fresh Breezes- Doug King
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