There's really no difference between OEL manga and Amerimanga, and it's basically a marketing tactic. Make no mistake, this is OEL manga, not the stuff published in Japan. But like manga, it's very free in it's layout of the various panels. Moving to the standard 4-panel (or 4-koma in Japan, which is published vertically as opposed to horizontally) format will be difficult. It'll be interesting to see how they accomplish this.
Well, considering that they're taking two american drawn comics, it's probably not going to be very difficult. Besides, a number of newspaper comics cary from the four panel design, and are still published(far side and their ilk). While I don't read the paper much, I've noticed many papers have gotten creative with the layouts of their papers, and have shrunk the comics to fit more onto the page. A little annoying as they haven't upped resolution any, often making it hard to read the text. A little shrinkage and you can fit a couple vertical comics in there just fine.
Agreed. There's only so many jokes you can do before you're simply rehashing earlier ones. As it is Calvin had a very extended childhood.
I've seen the syndrome in many shows. The Simpsons eventually declined, South Park is working to keep itself fresh by having the kids grow up. Even then, some of the later episodes feel forced. The jokes are dirtier, more obvious, like they're trying too hard.
Kinda like the people who want the studios to let star trek lay fallow for a number of years. Give them time to come up with some new(good) material. Heck, have a bloody consistancy department. Overarching storylines(each episode more or less self contained, but advancing the overall season/show's plot) help keep viewers interested, without the need for deus ex machina every episode. I mean if you increase the effective power of a tractor beam by pulsing it, note a retrofit making it standard later on...
That and I feel that there at least was a substantial market being missed by the domestic audience.
I got into Anime during the time Power rangers were first becoming popular. With the standard disclaimer that Anime/Manga varies, I was attracted by the complex, varied, and different story lines. In short, it was entertaining, especially compared to the offerings at the time*. I mean, I have never been one for sitcoms, gameshows, sports, or today, reality based TV. I enjoyed Stargate, some Star Trek, BtVS etc... Mostly I watched movies, and enjoy series on DVD, as I don't have to worry about commercials, can pause, etc...
*at the time I had an internet connection but no cable, due to the cable company's horrible service. I got a clearer picture and almost as many channels from broadcast.
Speed boat cannot do those speeds in open water..unless it is a ciggerrette or a donzi
not to mention that a proper ship will be able to keep that speed up for days, whereas a speedboat will quickly reach the point where they have to return to refuel. Especially the poor pirates in these regions probably don't have full tanks of fuel.
Effective non-lethal weapons would be a welcome thing.
Very true, however the problem we're seeing is misues of these 'non-lethal' devices for situations that previously would have been defused by talking. There's even a number of cases where the usage of tasers may have contributed or caused the death of those they're used on.
There's cases of cops here using them on seven year old kids, on a suspected drug user to forcibly obtain a urine sample, on pregnant women(multiple times!), 80 year old woman in nursing home, etc. Then there's the pepper ball that killed the college student.
A problem with a truly safe 'non-lethal' device, especially when it comes to self-defense, is that there is little deterant for the attacker, because of: "What's the worst that could happen? I could get stunned for a little while?" vs "She's got a gun! She might kill me!"
So even if you were prepared with a pair of regular 30dB ear plugs, you're still getting hit with 120dB.
Not necessarily. 150dB is only reached at extremely close range. At longer range, say ~100 meters, it's probably 100dB-30dB for the plugs(cheapies). Wear muffs on top of them for another 30-40dB of protection, and you might only be exposed to ~30dB. Then you simply take out the device with your real guns before boarding.
Or, if you're a good enough shot, and have a stable enough platform(not likely out in the ocean, I'll admit), a few bullets should silence the thing. If not, well, that's what shotguns and machineguns are for.
I'll note that, while the definition of 'heavy weapon' can vary, the M2, while a heavy machine gun, is not generally considered a 'heavy weapon', which is reserved for things such as artillery level guns, mortars, other things that a normal human can't even consider moving around by hand that would generally be permanently mounted to the deck of whatever ship it's installed in.
If they turn it on at ~500 yards, it's probably equivalent to a loud fire alarm. Likely to wake people up and have them checking out what's going on. Kinda like a fog horn.
Then give the pensioners guns and let them go at it.;)
You are fucking barbarians when it comes down to deal adequately with violence
I beg to differ. Sure, our view is different, but I don't really want to try using the French model, seeing as how they seem to like letting riots go on for weeks. I mean, we talk about riots lasting more than a couple hours as a long one.
I wonder, what's your suggestion for permanently reducing the pirate problem of the area, and how much governmental cost would it incur?
you just name the dead people collateral damage and wait to be hailed as heroes
I challange you to find an army, in active operations, with less 'collateral damage' than the US Military. Besides, here we're simply talking about taking the pirates out before they can board so the only casualties, unless the pirates get lucky or are carrying hostages, will be pirates. These pirates are not like the 'noble' ones in so many movies. They are criminals, taking advantage of operating in a location without much active law enforcement.
To figure out conservative american thinking in these matters, assign each human life a value of 100. Dogs and other animals are maybe in the single digits. For each crime, deduct a value from the 100. The sooner it's happened/happening, the greater the deduction. The exact value depends on the conservative and the crime. Attempting to commit murder is generally a deduction of around 100-200. Thus actually making the value of that person's life, at that moment negative. Thus, making it a contribution to humanity to waste the 'goblin*'. We're still going to try to avoid collateral damage, of course.
*Technical term for humans who, through their acts, have shown themselves to be a negative value for the good of humanity.
desperate, yes Well trained, no. Most are rank amatuers when it comes to armed conflict. brave? In some ways only.
I've read about this problem, and it seems to work out much like dry-water criminals. They show an overwhelming tendency to avoid 'hard targets', or at least what they think are hard targets. They're after money/supplies, not battles. You show an increased chance of resistance, of fighting back, and they'll go off looking for an easier target.
I mean, there was an incident where a US Navy cargo ship was 'approached' by pirates. Well, this cargo ship, being navy, had a few deck weapons(I believe a.50cal AA type gun, but depressable to cover the ocean), and this was after the USS Cole attack. They opened up, and the pirates turned around and ran away.
We were discussing this on The highroad and the general consensus that these pirates could have been dealt with, permanently, with things varying from various sizes of machine gun(.30-.50+ calibers), to airgun launched grenades/dynamite, over/under shotguns.
Scruitinizing the incident, the articles never seemed to deny the cruise line having firearms, merely that firearms weren't used.
I don't know about your parents, but my Ma and Pa would be activly participating in the pirate shoot, and my Grandparents would be cheering.
Consider what the parent said. These are known pirates. They are known to commit such crimes as murder, torture, rape(if there's any females on the boat), kidnapping, etc...
Marine movement being what it is, it's mostly impossible for the authorities to track the pirates down after the fact, especially if they're based out of a consenting harbor. Which is a big part of the problem, as these people are often part of small, tight-knit towns/villages, thus the whole village will help cover up their activities.
Which would you rather have? A half hour of gunfire, or a three day run huddled in the middle of the boat? A group of pirates, dead, unable to pirate anymore, or a group that have learned some of what doesn't work, ready to try again next month?
If I'm on a cruise through any of these areas(and I include the caribbean), I know that I'd be far more able to relax if I know that the crew has some heavy weapons and know how to use them. Pirates are known to be at work in many areas of the world, and many people recommend having at least small arms available in yachts. It's like a mugging/kidnapping, if you submit to your attacker, rather than lessoning the damage you'll sustain, you simply make it easier for the evil men to do whatever they want to do to you.
$3 an hour, that can be done at home, at your computer, at your own pace, on your own time, whenever you 'feel' like it.
In reality, if you don't bother spending 36 seconds per set, and only spend 18, that's $6 an hour. With no uniform requirements, no $3 a gallon gas, transportation, etc required to do the work.
Take a parttime job paying $6 an hour, for 4 hours. It's 15 miles away, and your car gets 30mpg. That's $3 out of your pocket whenever you go to work and return. Not including maintenance and wear and tear. Oh, yeah, and you have to pay social security/medicare one your wages(you don't as a self-employed contractor). There's another couple bucks. Maybe even clothing. Suddenly, even $3 an hour, spread over time when doing other things, makes sense.
Well, to be a bit more accurate, it's Ender alone who plays those games... The earlier graduates of the camps became the officers & crew of the ships involved in the battles.
****SPOILER**** To avoid any possible problems with Ender's talent, he was deceived into thinking he was playing against a human expert playing the other side, when in fact he was sending digital orders to the fleets.
Are people in Europe driving unsafer cars? I was simply responding to the boast that, due to their higher driving standards, their fatality rate has been dropping. I countered that the same thing has been happening in the USA.
My source also lists fatality rates for miles traveled, abreviated VMT(vehicle miles travelled), which I fat fingered into VMR. It's been a while, but I actually believe that America as a slightly better VMT accident rate than Germany. We're safer per mile, but we drive so much more...
The problem you still have in a urban area is runway/landing space. These cars are not VTOL, or even STOL*.
Personally, I think that a small car computer controlled captive rail system would work better for urban areas. You don't even need gas then, because they're powered by electricity from the grid. The rail makes computer control easy as it limits parameters. Otherwise known as PRT. Bonus: It's not 'five years away'. There are test tracks built, actual construction could start within a year for a simple line/loop. A proper grid would take longer, but then, look at how long paving a city would take from scratch.
Bennies: You'd soon have businesses paying to have stations put right into their buildings. You'd only have to walk to the closest station to be able to walk right into the mall, hospital, many stores and office complexes, etc...
Neither in yours, give that it's been falling in the USA for the same period Reference: All told, 42,636 people died on the nation's highways in 2004, down from 42,884 in 2003. The fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT) was 1.46 in 2004, down from 1.48 in 2003. The fatality rate has been steadily improving since 1966 when 50,894 people died and the rate was 5.5.
Overall deaths can actually go up while having the VMR and per 100,000 rates go down because the USA, more so than Europe, is still increasing in population.
This usually happens when you don't send the ground pounders in. Air Force target discrimination is measured in the meters, at least without ground intel(translation: guy with the groundpounders with a radio). And there's been a couple 'weddings' with a suspicious lack of females present...
Which is sneakier? A dude with an RPG (which has been bewilderingly effective against helicopters) or an armored column?
Well, you specified infantry, which translates to bradleys, not Abrams. Then again, when you have a 'dude' of the same ethnicity and speaking the same language as the region, it's far easier for him to hide than an American or European can. And because of our multiethnic composition, they can hide in our countries fairly trivialy.
I'm talking about Special Ops. If the plan had been "We're going to multiply our humint resources by five and increase our covert operations budgets by a factor of five. The SEALs have a hunting license: No bag limit."
SEALs are not magic, they aren't intel gatherers. Special Ops, despite the movies, are not indestructable, or even that sneaky. We have a limited number of them. Spending five times the money won't get you five times the Seals, intel or anything. We just don't have the assets. We're doing lots of intel operations. Just look at our educational system. Study after study has shown that money spent doesn't correlate with quality of education. The system doesn't necessarily need more money, it needs reform. We got too dependant on mechanical intel, and it's going to take time to rebuild the Humint elements.
Occupying a hostile nation that had only peripheral involvement with the terrorist attack was a bad plan.
Seems to be working as an excellent honeypot for the terrorists. Then again, I did just come back from there. My regions for supporting the action in Iraq are legion, and the reason liberals trumpet(WMD) was a very minor one.
How about not invading it until the situation in Afghanistan was under control? How's that for a plan? Afghanistan is under control. Sure, attacks still exist there. But then again, attacks have still occured in other areas as well. Where's your yardstick? Heck, once again, I heard nothing through the major media on our progress there.
Both countries, like Japan and Germany after WWII, are going to take decades to rebuild. What's your solution for the current situation?
Please, please tell me you're not thinking this is at all lke a paintball game.
Most certainly not.
Depends on whose made-up statistics about the war you believe.
Don't. I depend on the real estimates.
When I was talking about locating the enemy, Sparky, I was not talking about "which subcontinent is he on". I had in mind a resolution of meters. If you have that information, bully for you. Please share it with the President.
We often do, but since the terrorists don't occupy an area only measured in meters, whenever we get info that detailed, the president finds out about it in the after-action report. I've also very rarely heard about our successes in the news.
An armored infantry battalion can't be relied upon to tell the difference between a gathering of terrorists and a wedding party. That shouldn't be their job. This "war" is not going to be "won" by boots on the ground: It's going to be won by intelligence assets and sneaky, deadly bastards.
I'd have believed you more if you'd talked about space assets and cruise missiles, the favorite 'weapon' of Clinton. But what the heck do you think an armoured battalion is, if not sneaky, deadly bastards? It's not like we have enough people that can blend into Muslim society to be that sneaky about it.
Armoring humvees is just going to make the terrorists build bigger bombs.
Making the enemy use more resources is always a good thing. Bigger bombs are harder to make, harder to hide, etc...
How about this:
You provide a plan that'll resolve the situation in Iraq without turning it into another Afganistan? I'm all ears.
We've come a long way in the development of multiple layer flexible products. Virtually any such suit is going to use some form of Kevlar, for example, and that was invented in 1971, where the parent talked about the efforts being in the 60's, early 70's.
Of course, there's a big difference on how hard it'd be to build an emergency, minimal weight suit and a long duration work suit.
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There's really no difference between OEL manga and Amerimanga, and it's basically a marketing tactic. Make no mistake, this is OEL manga, not the stuff published in Japan. But like manga, it's very free in it's layout of the various panels. Moving to the standard 4-panel (or 4-koma in Japan, which is published vertically as opposed to horizontally) format will be difficult. It'll be interesting to see how they accomplish this.
Well, considering that they're taking two american drawn comics, it's probably not going to be very difficult. Besides, a number of newspaper comics cary from the four panel design, and are still published(far side and their ilk). While I don't read the paper much, I've noticed many papers have gotten creative with the layouts of their papers, and have shrunk the comics to fit more onto the page. A little annoying as they haven't upped resolution any, often making it hard to read the text. A little shrinkage and you can fit a couple vertical comics in there just fine.
Agreed. There's only so many jokes you can do before you're simply rehashing earlier ones. As it is Calvin had a very extended childhood.
I've seen the syndrome in many shows. The Simpsons eventually declined, South Park is working to keep itself fresh by having the kids grow up. Even then, some of the later episodes feel forced. The jokes are dirtier, more obvious, like they're trying too hard.
Kinda like the people who want the studios to let star trek lay fallow for a number of years. Give them time to come up with some new(good) material. Heck, have a bloody consistancy department. Overarching storylines(each episode more or less self contained, but advancing the overall season/show's plot) help keep viewers interested, without the need for deus ex machina every episode. I mean if you increase the effective power of a tractor beam by pulsing it, note a retrofit making it standard later on...
That and I feel that there at least was a substantial market being missed by the domestic audience.
I got into Anime during the time Power rangers were first becoming popular. With the standard disclaimer that Anime/Manga varies, I was attracted by the complex, varied, and different story lines. In short, it was entertaining, especially compared to the offerings at the time*. I mean, I have never been one for sitcoms, gameshows, sports, or today, reality based TV. I enjoyed Stargate, some Star Trek, BtVS etc... Mostly I watched movies, and enjoy series on DVD, as I don't have to worry about commercials, can pause, etc...
*at the time I had an internet connection but no cable, due to the cable company's horrible service. I got a clearer picture and almost as many channels from broadcast.
Speed boat cannot do those speeds in open water ..unless it is a ciggerrette or a donzi
not to mention that a proper ship will be able to keep that speed up for days, whereas a speedboat will quickly reach the point where they have to return to refuel. Especially the poor pirates in these regions probably don't have full tanks of fuel.
Effective non-lethal weapons would be a welcome thing.
Very true, however the problem we're seeing is misues of these 'non-lethal' devices for situations that previously would have been defused by talking. There's even a number of cases where the usage of tasers may have contributed or caused the death of those they're used on.
There's cases of cops here using them on seven year old kids, on a suspected drug user to forcibly obtain a urine sample, on pregnant women(multiple times!), 80 year old woman in nursing home, etc. Then there's the pepper ball that killed the college student.
A problem with a truly safe 'non-lethal' device, especially when it comes to self-defense, is that there is little deterant for the attacker, because of: "What's the worst that could happen? I could get stunned for a little while?" vs "She's got a gun! She might kill me!"
So even if you were prepared with a pair of regular 30dB ear plugs, you're still getting hit with 120dB.
Not necessarily. 150dB is only reached at extremely close range. At longer range, say ~100 meters, it's probably 100dB-30dB for the plugs(cheapies). Wear muffs on top of them for another 30-40dB of protection, and you might only be exposed to ~30dB. Then you simply take out the device with your real guns before boarding.
Or, if you're a good enough shot, and have a stable enough platform(not likely out in the ocean, I'll admit), a few bullets should silence the thing. If not, well, that's what shotguns and machineguns are for.
I'll note that, while the definition of 'heavy weapon' can vary, the M2, while a heavy machine gun, is not generally considered a 'heavy weapon', which is reserved for things such as artillery level guns, mortars, other things that a normal human can't even consider moving around by hand that would generally be permanently mounted to the deck of whatever ship it's installed in.
If they turn it on at ~500 yards, it's probably equivalent to a loud fire alarm. Likely to wake people up and have them checking out what's going on. Kinda like a fog horn.
It's probably not really bad until <200 yards
Then give the pensioners guns and let them go at it. ;)
You are fucking barbarians when it comes down to deal adequately with violence
I beg to differ. Sure, our view is different, but I don't really want to try using the French model, seeing as how they seem to like letting riots go on for weeks. I mean, we talk about riots lasting more than a couple hours as a long one.
I wonder, what's your suggestion for permanently reducing the pirate problem of the area, and how much governmental cost would it incur?
you just name the dead people collateral damage and wait to be hailed as heroes
I challange you to find an army, in active operations, with less 'collateral damage' than the US Military. Besides, here we're simply talking about taking the pirates out before they can board so the only casualties, unless the pirates get lucky or are carrying hostages, will be pirates. These pirates are not like the 'noble' ones in so many movies. They are criminals, taking advantage of operating in a location without much active law enforcement.
To figure out conservative american thinking in these matters, assign each human life a value of 100. Dogs and other animals are maybe in the single digits. For each crime, deduct a value from the 100. The sooner it's happened/happening, the greater the deduction. The exact value depends on the conservative and the crime. Attempting to commit murder is generally a deduction of around 100-200. Thus actually making the value of that person's life, at that moment negative. Thus, making it a contribution to humanity to waste the 'goblin*'. We're still going to try to avoid collateral damage, of course.
*Technical term for humans who, through their acts, have shown themselves to be a negative value for the good of humanity.
desperate, yes
.50cal AA type gun, but depressable to cover the ocean), and this was after the USS Cole attack. They opened up, and the pirates turned around and ran away.
Well trained, no. Most are rank amatuers when it comes to armed conflict.
brave? In some ways only.
I've read about this problem, and it seems to work out much like dry-water criminals. They show an overwhelming tendency to avoid 'hard targets', or at least what they think are hard targets. They're after money/supplies, not battles. You show an increased chance of resistance, of fighting back, and they'll go off looking for an easier target.
I mean, there was an incident where a US Navy cargo ship was 'approached' by pirates. Well, this cargo ship, being navy, had a few deck weapons(I believe a
We were discussing this on The highroad and the general consensus that these pirates could have been dealt with, permanently, with things varying from various sizes of machine gun(.30-.50+ calibers), to airgun launched grenades/dynamite, over/under shotguns.
Scruitinizing the incident, the articles never seemed to deny the cruise line having firearms, merely that firearms weren't used.
I don't know about your parents, but my Ma and Pa would be activly participating in the pirate shoot, and my Grandparents would be cheering.
Consider what the parent said. These are known pirates. They are known to commit such crimes as murder, torture, rape(if there's any females on the boat), kidnapping, etc...
Marine movement being what it is, it's mostly impossible for the authorities to track the pirates down after the fact, especially if they're based out of a consenting harbor. Which is a big part of the problem, as these people are often part of small, tight-knit towns/villages, thus the whole village will help cover up their activities.
Which would you rather have? A half hour of gunfire, or a three day run huddled in the middle of the boat? A group of pirates, dead, unable to pirate anymore, or a group that have learned some of what doesn't work, ready to try again next month?
If I'm on a cruise through any of these areas(and I include the caribbean), I know that I'd be far more able to relax if I know that the crew has some heavy weapons and know how to use them. Pirates are known to be at work in many areas of the world, and many people recommend having at least small arms available in yachts. It's like a mugging/kidnapping, if you submit to your attacker, rather than lessoning the damage you'll sustain, you simply make it easier for the evil men to do whatever they want to do to you.
$3 an hour, that can be done at home, at your computer, at your own pace, on your own time, whenever you 'feel' like it.
In reality, if you don't bother spending 36 seconds per set, and only spend 18, that's $6 an hour. With no uniform requirements, no $3 a gallon gas, transportation, etc required to do the work.
Take a parttime job paying $6 an hour, for 4 hours. It's 15 miles away, and your car gets 30mpg. That's $3 out of your pocket whenever you go to work and return. Not including maintenance and wear and tear. Oh, yeah, and you have to pay social security/medicare one your wages(you don't as a self-employed contractor). There's another couple bucks. Maybe even clothing. Suddenly, even $3 an hour, spread over time when doing other things, makes sense.
Well, to be a bit more accurate, it's Ender alone who plays those games...
The earlier graduates of the camps became the officers & crew of the ships involved in the battles.
****SPOILER****
To avoid any possible problems with Ender's talent, he was deceived into thinking he was playing against a human expert playing the other side, when in fact he was sending digital orders to the fleets.
Are people in Europe driving unsafer cars? I was simply responding to the boast that, due to their higher driving standards, their fatality rate has been dropping. I countered that the same thing has been happening in the USA.
My source also lists fatality rates for miles traveled, abreviated VMT(vehicle miles travelled), which I fat fingered into VMR. It's been a while, but I actually believe that America as a slightly better VMT accident rate than Germany. We're safer per mile, but we drive so much more...
The problem you still have in a urban area is runway/landing space. These cars are not VTOL, or even STOL*.
Personally, I think that a small car computer controlled captive rail system would work better for urban areas. You don't even need gas then, because they're powered by electricity from the grid. The rail makes computer control easy as it limits parameters. Otherwise known as PRT. Bonus: It's not 'five years away'. There are test tracks built, actual construction could start within a year for a simple line/loop. A proper grid would take longer, but then, look at how long paving a city would take from scratch.
Bennies: You'd soon have businesses paying to have stations put right into their buildings. You'd only have to walk to the closest station to be able to walk right into the mall, hospital, many stores and office complexes, etc...
*Short TakeOff/Landing.
Neither in yours, give that it's been falling in the USA for the same period
Reference: All told, 42,636 people died on the nation's highways in 2004, down from 42,884 in 2003. The fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT) was 1.46 in 2004, down from 1.48 in 2003. The fatality rate has been steadily improving since 1966 when 50,894 people died and the rate was 5.5.
Overall deaths can actually go up while having the VMR and per 100,000 rates go down because the USA, more so than Europe, is still increasing in population.
But from what I've heard, it's also cleaner, so that probably makes up the difference. Less need for detergents, none/vl of that nasty sulfer, etc...
Are you considering full coverage, or just liability? Many people buy an older car and essentially self insure for everything but liability.
It might have been one of the coldest on record, but where?
There's quite a bit of difference between northern california and alaska, for example.
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How's your security clearance?
And, of course, the occasional wedding party.
This usually happens when you don't send the ground pounders in. Air Force target discrimination is measured in the meters, at least without ground intel(translation: guy with the groundpounders with a radio). And there's been a couple 'weddings' with a suspicious lack of females present...
Which is sneakier? A dude with an RPG (which has been bewilderingly effective against helicopters) or an armored column?
Well, you specified infantry, which translates to bradleys, not Abrams. Then again, when you have a 'dude' of the same ethnicity and speaking the same language as the region, it's far easier for him to hide than an American or European can. And because of our multiethnic composition, they can hide in our countries fairly trivialy.
I'm talking about Special Ops. If the plan had been "We're going to multiply our humint resources by five and increase our covert operations budgets by a factor of five. The SEALs have a hunting license: No bag limit."
SEALs are not magic, they aren't intel gatherers. Special Ops, despite the movies, are not indestructable, or even that sneaky. We have a limited number of them. Spending five times the money won't get you five times the Seals, intel or anything. We just don't have the assets. We're doing lots of intel operations. Just look at our educational system. Study after study has shown that money spent doesn't correlate with quality of education. The system doesn't necessarily need more money, it needs reform. We got too dependant on mechanical intel, and it's going to take time to rebuild the Humint elements.
Occupying a hostile nation that had only peripheral involvement with the terrorist attack was a bad plan.
Seems to be working as an excellent honeypot for the terrorists. Then again, I did just come back from there. My regions for supporting the action in Iraq are legion, and the reason liberals trumpet(WMD) was a very minor one.
How about not invading it until the situation in Afghanistan was under control? How's that for a plan?
Afghanistan is under control. Sure, attacks still exist there. But then again, attacks have still occured in other areas as well. Where's your yardstick? Heck, once again, I heard nothing through the major media on our progress there.
Both countries, like Japan and Germany after WWII, are going to take decades to rebuild.
What's your solution for the current situation?
So would you consider a baby entirely incubated in an artificial womb to have a soul or not?
When does the 'weaving' take place? Would an embryo, never placed within a womb, only existing on a culture dish count?
Please, please tell me you're not thinking this is at all lke a paintball game.
Most certainly not.
Depends on whose made-up statistics about the war you believe.
Don't. I depend on the real estimates.
When I was talking about locating the enemy, Sparky, I was not talking about "which subcontinent is he on". I had in mind a resolution of meters. If you have that information, bully for you. Please share it with the President.
We often do, but since the terrorists don't occupy an area only measured in meters, whenever we get info that detailed, the president finds out about it in the after-action report. I've also very rarely heard about our successes in the news.
An armored infantry battalion can't be relied upon to tell the difference between a gathering of terrorists and a wedding party. That shouldn't be their job. This "war" is not going to be "won" by boots on the ground: It's going to be won by intelligence assets and sneaky, deadly bastards.
I'd have believed you more if you'd talked about space assets and cruise missiles, the favorite 'weapon' of Clinton. But what the heck do you think an armoured battalion is, if not sneaky, deadly bastards? It's not like we have enough people that can blend into Muslim society to be that sneaky about it.
Armoring humvees is just going to make the terrorists build bigger bombs.
Making the enemy use more resources is always a good thing. Bigger bombs are harder to make, harder to hide, etc...
How about this:
You provide a plan that'll resolve the situation in Iraq without turning it into another Afganistan? I'm all ears.
We've come a long way in the development of multiple layer flexible products. Virtually any such suit is going to use some form of Kevlar, for example, and that was invented in 1971, where the parent talked about the efforts being in the 60's, early 70's.
Of course, there's a big difference on how hard it'd be to build an emergency, minimal weight suit and a long duration work suit.