‘What really threatens our future?’

RGR · Post by **RGR** » 07 May 2011, 14:29

[quote="Mean Mr Mustard"]

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 07 May 2011, 14:37

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

Mean Mr Mustard · Post by **Mean Mr Mustard** » 07 May 2011, 14:46

RGR wrote: I don't recall anyone actually destroying an American naval vessel since WWI?

Selective memory..?

And we sank one of the survivors from that, USS Phoenix, in 1982.

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 07 May 2011, 15:14

Maybe PH has been written out of the 'official' American history over there

RGR · Post by **RGR** » 07 May 2011, 15:40

[quote="Mean Mr Mustard"]

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 07 May 2011, 15:49

to fight some minor Third World power to a near draw

Wot you mean a bit like Vietnam?

RGR · Post by **RGR** » 07 May 2011, 15:53

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Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 07 May 2011, 15:55

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_o ... shu_(1993)

The US 'got its ass kicked' by a bunch of women and children with rifles.

RGR · Post by **RGR** » 07 May 2011, 15:55

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RGR · Post by **RGR** » 07 May 2011, 15:58

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Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 07 May 2011, 16:02

RGR wrote: Maybe this is more an issue of bad British ship building

Good job you learned from us to armour your flight decks after WWII wasn't it. Those cheap wooden efforts went up like a tinderbox when the Japs hit them, didn't they.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_flight_deck

And you learned some pretty good missile technology from appropriated German scientists after that war as well, didn't you.

Proof that you don't need brains, as long as you've got money.

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 07 May 2011, 16:02

RGR wrote:
Andy Hunt wrote:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_o ... shu_(1993)

The US 'got its ass kicked' by a bunch of women and children with rifles.
Baloney. Choosing to leave because of political gutlessness has nothing to do with losing.

Yerright.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 07 May 2011, 16:04

RGR wrote:
RenewableCandy wrote:
to fight some minor Third World power to a near draw
Wot you mean a bit like Vietnam?
You try fighting a platoon of midgets all alone while encumbered in handcuffs and shackles attached to concrete blocks and see if you can do better than a draw.

(I think he means they were regretting they weren't allowed to just nuke the place).

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 07 May 2011, 16:07

RGR wrote:
RenewableCandy wrote:
to fight some minor Third World power to a near draw
Wot you mean a bit like Vietnam?
You try fighting a platoon of midgets all alone while encumbered in handcuffs and shackles attached to concrete blocks and see if you can do better than a draw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gO7uemm ... ata_player

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 07 May 2011, 16:11

RenewableCandy wrote:
RGR wrote:
RenewableCandy wrote: Wot you mean a bit like Vietnam?
You try fighting a platoon of midgets all alone while encumbered in handcuffs and shackles attached to concrete blocks and see if you can do better than a draw.
(I think he means they were regretting they weren't allowed to just nuke the place).

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" - Isaac Asimov

And by extension, extreme violence is the last refuge of the desperate.