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2013-10-06, 06:50 | Link #30985 |
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For Rep. Ted Yoho, government shutdown is ‘the tremor before the tsunami’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...35e_story.html
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2013-10-06, 07:03 | Link #30986 | |
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Maybe we can find out if that is truly the case, once and for all. And I will be hopeful that this gets dealt with permanently before Obama finished his term. It would certainly be helpful to whoever taking over that this mess of an economic hostage taking not get turned into a yearly event.
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Of course it's also easy to think a general being willing to accept 50% casualties to achieve victory is unacceptable when you're not the one who has to seriously contend with the United States Air Force being able to bomb you with near complete impunity. The Vietnamese (and Giap) had to fight their war with the understanding that if they did ANYTHING operationally near US ground forces, that said US troops would immediately start calling in massive quantities of air and artillery assets against the NVA/VC troops. And shrapnel and Napalm doesn't care how much of a tactical genius your commander is. Massive casualties are unavoidable under these tactical conditions. US Army/Marine units would have been similarly devastated if the NVA/VC could throw that much ordinance at them. Quote:
I certainly find it a hard thing to comment on. While the Vietnamese communists weren't nice people, the Southern government wasn't exactly any less thuggish. And they certainly didn't have a fraction of the revolutionary creds that the VietMihn did. Quote:
Legend of Galactic Heroes had a really...effective scene demonstrating that even serving under inspirational commanders can be hell when it actually comes to battle.
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2013-10-06, 11:46 | Link #30990 |
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Results from Public Policy Polling surveys of 24 Republican-‐held House districts, Oct. 2-‐4, 2013
http://front.moveon.org/wp-content/u...use_Survey.pdf
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Of course, when it is a civil insurgency, things change and gray areas grow wider. The guy who tried to chuck a molotov at your armoured car; technically speaking he is an enemy. But he is a civilian you have to protect too as a citizen. What would be your choice? That is the problem US faced in Vietnam. Their generals telling them that they are there to "liberate" Vietnam from the communists, but they have shoe-shine boys blowing them up with shoeboxes. So what are they protecting? What are they fighting for? Unlike the VPA, they do not have a singular enemy, and they do not have the stomach like the Russians to employ a "kill-them-all" policy. So whose life is more important? The ones they are sent to liberate, or their own which they need to continue the mission with? Quote:
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2013-10-06, 18:21 | Link #30992 |
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"Hezbollah has Iranian Chemical weapons":
"The Saudi journal Al Watan reported this morning (Sunday) that Khaled Al Daher, a Lebanese member of parliament on behalf of the Future Movement, said that the Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah recieved chemical weapons delivered to it from Iran. According to the report, Al Daher said that "the Iranian Revolutionary Guards was involved in the creation of Hezbollah's long-range missile bases across Lebanon, and some of their weapons contain chemical warheads." Al Daher further specified the location of some of the bases." See: http://www.israeldefense.com/?Catego...ArticleID=2496 |
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2013-10-07, 10:11 | Link #30995 | |
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Maybe America need to take a page out of Imperial China, and demand all Congressional leader pass some kind of civil service exam prior to election.
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2013-10-07, 12:08 | Link #30999 | |
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Schumer To Boehner: Prove That A Clean Spending Bill Won't Pass
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2013-10-07, 13:56 | Link #31000 | |
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Boehner and his GOP people are just one sorry bunch of tossers who deserve to get sacked after the next election. Hell... Don't they see the moral conundrum in what they are proposing? It's basically about cutting down affordable healthcare on 25 million of Americans (25 million!); that's equivalent to hanging those people dry, worse than leaving a fellow comrade wounded on a battlefield. Last edited by KiraYamatoFan; 2013-10-07 at 14:15. |
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