Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:35:52 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"Boater" wrote in message
...

...the world's mightiest navy, the US Navy, can't handle the Somali
pirates. It's yet another example of how unprepared for the 21st Century
our military forces are.
That statement is just plain stupid, that's all.

Did you ever notice that on the one hand, Harry is all up in arms
about "boys with their toys" everytime we bring up some new nifty
piece of military hardware, but on the other hand, the military is a
bunch of incompetants because they can't keep pirates, in
international waters, from capturing other country's flag vessels
because they can't get new, low draft, high speed interdiction ships
built because the money has to go to saving UAW jobs or welfare
mothers.

It's perfect liberal thinking.


You need low draft vessels hundreds of miles off the coast, eh? Lower
draft than, say, the full tanker that was captured?

The military hardware that would impress me is "intel." It doesn't
matter what hardware toys you have so long as your intel sucks. Ours sucks.