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Reply to Total Capitulation in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]Arty, nothing wrong with the A-10 at all, it's a fine (probably the finest) ground support aircraft in the world. But (and here seems to be the disconnect you can't grasp) it needs to operate in Allied controlled airspace. It is basically the Stuka of modern air warfare. The Stuka worked great until the Germans sent it over the English Channel. The Brits had air superiority and slaughtered the Stuka's.[/quote] And I agree with you one hundred percent! And, I'll stop torturing yo

Reply to Total Capitulation in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]The article you linked was flawed heavily either by ignorance or design to prove their points.[/quote] Well, Pierre Sprey was one of McNamara's "whiz kids" who was instrumental in the design and creation of the F-16 and A-10. He was also a member of the defense reform movement in the 1970's which took on large bureaucratic arms developers and took them to task for spending more and more money to develop fewer and often ineffective weapons. So, when he speaks, I

Reply to Total Capitulation in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]Poorer nations could not afford a capitol ship and found a cheaper way to do war. Carrier warfare was in its infancy while battleships were a proven weapon and only the brightest in military strategy could see the usefulness of the new weapon to exploit the weakness of the capitol ships. The treaty of WWI limited the number and size of capitol ships but there was no restriction on aircraft carriers.[/quote] Actually, dead wrong there. There were restrictions even on aircraft car

Reply to Total Capitulation in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]Arty, while your last post was entertaining (and probably in line with the average persons knowledge of weapons systems) it was far from how it really works[/quote] Very well. Please do explain to me how I was incorrect about the Battleship vs. Carrier debate, or the Maginot line. Or, tell me why I'm wrong about the French pre-WW2 belief about tanks and infantry. Or please, explain to me why the A-10 is such a terrible close air support aircraft, and show me another aircraft tha

Reply to Total Capitulation in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]since you felt guilty enough to bite, I'll respond. The left loves to spend, that's no secret, except like to spend on things that mostly have no chance of offering a tangible return for every American, as military spending does.[/quote] Again, as I said in my last post, I have no problem with military spending on programs that have actual practical applications on the battlefield or (as an added but not necessary bonus) off the battlefield in the civilian world. What I w

Reply to Total Capitulation in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]US ABM technology is by far the best in the world and (at least prior to Obama) improving everyday. Last years destruction of a defunct US spy satellite, traveling over 7000 miles an hour, is clear proof [/quote] Bravo. The U.S has been able to take out satellites with missiles launched from F-15's since the 80's. Shooting down a reconassaince satellite is hardly proof that U.S ABM technology is "the best in the world" [quote]I always get a kick out of it when someone cal

Reply to Politics - A Full Blown Attack in Politics JoeUser Forums

Paladin- go back to school my good man. If you actually do a bit of reading, you'll find that after "liberating" the Philippines from the Spanish, American troops then ended up fighting against Philipino insurgents for more than 10 years. If you do your homework, you'll find that the first Philippine republic declared war on the United States on June 2, 1899. Also, the United States didn't even negotiate with the Philipino's, they negotiated with the Spanish. Th

Reply to Total Capitulation in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]One of the reasons it does not land outside the US is because we don’t want people knowing how it works. That is why they are stationed in the middle of the country. Unlike liberal thinking giving away our military secrets is not really a good idea.[/quote] That's nice. If you actually do just a smidge of research however, you'll find that actually, no, the B-2 bomber actually needs a special air-conditioned building to be housed in. The reason is that during r

Reply to Total Capitulation in Politics Stardock Forums

Nitro- [quote]Addressing Arty (a slightly more reasonable Canadian liberal )[/quote] Thanks for keeping the dialogue going. While we certainly disagree on much at least we can carry on a rational conversation! [quote]Your statement just addressed the entire problem...it's not for use against Russian ICBMs. They know it too. The ABM system is in its infancy (might be why they need 10) and is still developing, so is the Iranian missile program. If Russia or most any other c

Reply to Total Capitulation in Politics JoeUser Forums

Sorry, I erred. The boondoggle B2 program requires upwards of 120 hours of maintenance for 1 hour of flight time, all of which must be done in special air conditioned bunkers

Reply to Total Capitulation in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]Oh, please tell me which missile this is, the SS-20, SS-6 the SS-4, SS-18. which ICBM is it that has this magical power. Now if you are talking about cruise missiles, that is not new they have limited range of about 1200 miles from launch. The trade off is that they travel slowly, under 500 miles an hour and can easily spotted by our fighter jet radar. That is the reason we use them against countries that have lousy air forces’ You know the ones that have Russian fighters. [/quot

Reply to Politics - A Full Blown Attack in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]You will learn from the articles I am working on that "left" and "anti-imperialism" have very little to do with each other. You will also learn how the left used the term "anti-imperialism" to describe whatever policies they wanted to defend.[/quote][quote]I am a big fan of Mr Twain and always found it best to quote the people I am writing about. Unfortunately the international left never really paid much attention to the ideas of great thinkers like Mark Twain and George Bernard Shaw.

Reply to Total Capitulation in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Total capitulation on the defence shield with nothing in return from Russia.[/quote] 1) The missile shield doesn't work, and it's a VERY expensive failure. Why? In tests, the interceptors can hit other missiles -some- of the time, and the experiments are already a farce because they know ahead of time the exact details of the other missile- it's trajectory, source, destination, when it's going to be fired, AND that other missile is travelling in a nice straight line.

Reply to Politics - A Full Blown Attack in Politics Stardock Forums

Well, if you're speaking up against "the left" then you might want to drop the Mark Twain quotes. Mr. Clemens was very much from the left. The American invasion of the Philippines at the turn of the century caused him to ultimately become the vice president of the American Anti-Imperialist League (an anti-war group opposed to the morally bankrupt war being prosecuted by the U.S), and he also supported the overthrow of the Csars in Russia. Now, I certainly won't argue that what came

The Afghan War in Politics JoeUser Forums

I've always been a believer that numbers don't lie. They can be misinterpreted, rationalized, argued or downplayed but at the end of the day cold hard numbers are usually a good indicator as to whether or not you are delivering the goods as promised. Today, I'd like to look at the numbers in Afghanistan. This is a country in which we "won" between late 2001 and early 2002. And, almost 8 years into it we're still fighting. We still don't have control of the countryside (th

Reply to The President's Health Care Speech in Politics Stardock Forums

Daiwa, [quote]'Not-for-profit' is the correct and more accurate terminology, at least in health care facilities. That's not to say that such organizations must not have any money left over from operations at the end of the year to qualify as such. To endure, they must accumulate reserves over time from which to retire startup debt and to fund capital improvements and facilities upgrades. Those reserves come from net 'revenue' on operations (if it's not negative) and charitable contribu

Reply to The President's Health Care Speech in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]We’ve already established the gov is either complicit or incompetent when it comes to non-profits operating outside of the intent of the law. We also know the gov admits to extensive waste and abuse in the two other medical systems it manages.[/quote] And this is always the crux of the argument..... the idea that big government is woefully incompetent and inadequate. Now, in this case, yes, I agree with you one hundred percent. But it doesn't have to be that way. You know

Reply to The President's Health Care Speech in Politics Stardock Forums

Tova, You raise good questions! I too am always a fan of the nuts and bolts details vs rhetoric. With that said, I'm sure for the president to jump into technical details on the air would have extended his speech quite a bit and taken some of the "oomph" out of it (we are in the age of the 30 second sound byte now, aint it grand?) And I'm sure that the bill will still have more changes done to it before it passes, the millions of dollars in campaign contributions from th

Reply to A Redneck View of Healthcare in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote]Nice article. However hold onto your hat, the birthers and those looking to water the tree of liberty will be here shortly.[/quote] Thanks Mumblefratz. I actually find birthers and folks showing up to townhall meetings with loaded AR-15 rifles quite fascinating to watch. I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but watching the unravelling of the U.S is indeed quite the spectacle!

Reply to A Redneck View of Healthcare in Current Events Stardock Forums

CharlesCS [quote]I however am the kind of person who believes that if you wanna point out someone elses articles, I think you hould make the effort to get others to go to the site rather than post the entire article here. Look at it this way, would you rather ahve people come to you directly for things or would you like people to go thru a third person to get to you? Just my opinion.[/quote] Yep, and there's a reason why I posted a link to his site, AND posted his article withou

Reply to The Great Government Health Care System in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote]I'm sure a few JU regulars and neighbors from the north would disagree. They love their national heath systems. This LINK is for them.[/quote] Nice story! There are thousands of similar stories in the U.S under which HMO's listed a patients care as "experimental" and therefore have refused treatment or refused to pay. But you know what? Living in Canada my whole life, I have -NEVER- encountered a single fellow countryman who had to declare bankruptcy due to medical b

A Redneck View of Healthcare in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I'm a big believer in the concept that anything you've got to say has probably already been said better by somebody else. In this case, one of my favorite redneck authors has weighed into the healthcare debate: The Entertainment Value of Snuffing Grandma <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Times N

Reply to Health Care Debate #1: Understanding Insurance in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]In more recent times, the media and the government have helped popularize the concept of “pre-existing” conditions. That is, people who have a pre-existing condition should get coverage. This is, akin to saying that a fire insurance policy should provide coverage to a new person whose house is actually, literally, on fire.[/quote] And herein lies the question, what kind of society do you want to live in? By the way, the media and the government didn't "popularize" pr

Reply to What is a Hate Crime? in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote] I have to maintain any crime can be considered hateful. [/quote] And you're absolutely right. Hate crime legislation has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not a crime was 'hateful', but has everything to do with whether or not the crime was carried out for the sole purpose of targeting a specific cultural, religious, or political group. [quote]Now if they both went before a black judge (like an Obama) guess what? The cop could be considered hatefu

Reply to What happens if global warming is wrong? in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]I wonder how long it will take for the whole “climate change” zealotry to start to die out?[/quote] Well, up here it's still in full force my friend. Funny little things like this past summer the high arctic getting temperatures got up to over 70 degrees. Normally, the most they'll get up to during summer time is 45 degrees. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/08/06/el