What makes you imagine that there is any sort of "balance of power" shift imminent? These arab countries undergoing revolts are not going to be in...
It was better with the drugs. We listened to it for hours. It was the grandfather of "New Age Music", but in 1973 it was an interesting...
But it all trickles down and creates jobs, which is why our economy is booming and everyone is working. [IMG]
It's not likely. The special weapons are best used for deterrence. Ahmanutjob's inflammatory rhetoric is for internal consumption. Iran seeks...
Some of the companies providing security on commercial vessels have started operating patrol gunboats as escorts, essentially private navies....
Hey, it was "Epic Long Songs", not "Epic Songs". I don't consider 6 and half minutes a particularly long song. Lots of Progressive Rock albums had...
The hostages are all from commercial vessels plying the Suez canal route. Yachts should travel smarter, but there are in fact pirates...
The objective is to remove Afghanistan from use as a base by our enemies.
At the cost of global reach and power projection. You want to resign as Superpower?
Uhhhh . . . they were captured by pirates.
Nice fantasy, Captain America. But in the real world, taking 60 ships and 800 hostages simultaneously is impossible. Spec Ops are good but there...
Of course it does. Who do you think you are fooling?
And cause the execution of 800 hostages? You want to think that over again?
A couple of AC-130 gunships could wreck the whole Somali pirate and fishing fleet overnight and it would feel good. We can't do it for three...
Indefensible position. You didn't listen to a word I said. Indefensible position. Make your case and I'll destroy it.
We can probably bring more ground troops back from Germany, most of them have already returned. But Russia has not gone away and we need to have...
Actually, we have 92 military bases overseas and over half of them are tennant bases with no forces permanently stationed there. We have over...
No, we don't. We have half the nuclear submarines we once had and the ocean has gotten no smaller.
Better that we cut unneeded bases in the US. Those overseas bases give us strategic reach that nobody else has. They don't cost that much. Most...
Can't do that, we need the oil.
