It was a contract job for Iran done by a guy in Libya using explosives from what later became the Czech Republic. Libya was the main distribution point of Semtex to terrorist groups so the trail led there.
By now you should have learned that dirty bathwater is no reason to throw out the baby.
But why do I bother when there are utter losers that want to throw out democracy and have "libertarian" warlords running the place who can pollute upstream as much as they want because they have bigger guns than the guys downstream?
Especially when the rules of engagement require visual confirmation before weapons release. We've already had one commercial airliner "accidentally" shot down during a military conflict last year (MH17), so it's unlikely those requirements will be relaxed any time soon.
Also there was that time the US shot down Iran Air Flight 655, and then decided not to apologize or accept liability.
Don't worry - Pan Am cashed the check on that one over Scotland. Too soon?
I don't know if an apology would have prevented such a reprisal, but it may have, so not giving one was still a very stupid mistake on top of another stupid mistake all over an even more stupid "show the flag" mission where an under-resourced fleet was sent into a war zone and an inexperienced Captain panicked.
not confronting enemy armor, but largely disorganized ground troops.
Which is what tanks utterly suck against. In built up areas against infantry that can have either anti-tank weapons or force the tank down a path and drop a building on it with explosives you have a waste of the tank. So the tanks sit outside and organised ground troops go against the disorganised ground troops.
That's really just a reinforcement of your point - many tools for different jobs.
True - those who do not even understand the most simple and obvious bits of history are doomed to suggest incredibly stupid shit. English debtors prisons resulted in overcrowding, which forced transportation, which among other issues upset American colonists to the point of revolution. The readers here probably all know that but these idiots pushing for a roll back to King George by filling the prisons with people who are no threat to society (non-violent civil offense) have missed the implications. It's the sort of thing you'd suggest to your enemies to cripple their economy.
Orwell and dozens of others say it better without reading that Rear-done screed about bringing back the nobility so born to rule jailbait can put us all in our place.
My point is he's the poster boy for corruption, the very ugly side of America and not someone to be proud of. People who have done far less but don't have the right connections are in jail. If he's running the place Greece will look like financial genius in comparison.
Doesn't it indicate that he's not willing to take responsibility for his own actions - also there is a lot more to it and others have gone to jail for less.
I don't know anyone in the Democratic field at this point who has a similar skill set to Trump
I don't know anyone out of jail who has a similar skill set to Trump. The difference between him and them is powerful friends who kept the dogs off while he stole.
I'll add to that. Three of the four people that debunked the "great flood" theory and laid the foundations for the science of geology were ordained. Funny how the first to truly show that the Earth was a lot older than 6000 years old were professional Christians. Then there is Mendel and Darwin. A very different league to speaking in tongues and lifting up serpents. I have to admit being a bit biased against the extremists because a Pentacostal cult set up near me was mostly so the founder would have access to a lot of children to molest, as it turned out including his relatives - it was carefully hidden until his death. Another was an outright financial scam and the leaders are in jail. I know that Christianity-lite is not all like that, but it makes me a bit sceptical of motives.
A secure border is cheap, compared to not having one.
It's not going to happen so just see the wailing about it as the distraction that it is. Illegal immigrants keep wages down so Republicans are not going to cut off the flow. The total lack of action by Bush, Bush and Reagan should be a bit of a clue in that area that there will be a total lack of action by the next Republican who gets a chance.
Mathematics is the science under it. Economics is practised in a very different way to any science, especially all the parts that are built on a foundation of "political arithmetic". Add in a few strongly biased assumptions and science is left behind somewhere over the horizon. So now you know why there are so many little stifled sniggers every time an economist who was not a mathematician first calls themself a scientist.
Just ask China about that cadmium in the rice they shipped that went into Soylent. Do you really want kids poisoned by milk additives and everything else that goes with a lack of environmental regulation?
To the contrary, I think he might actually be better than most at diplomacy
It's called being a scam artist. Also how is his tactic of hiding money, declaring bankruptcy, then finding the money again going to apply at a national level? He's got nothing that will make a positive contribution and it's best to keep him as far away from taxpayers money as possible.
He's still got negative net worth. Funny how after he took a lot of other people's money and said declared bankruptcy he suddenly found millions just after the original owners had no way to get it back.
Why does it matter? This thief isn't going to be President. If he tries hard enough difficult questions are going to be asked about how he had millions after bankruptcy and who his friends are that protected him from the law.
If Trump was forced to pay back what he owes a homeless man would have more wealth.
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It was a contract job for Iran done by a guy in Libya using explosives from what later became the Czech Republic. Libya was the main distribution point of Semtex to terrorist groups so the trail led there.
By now you should have learned that dirty bathwater is no reason to throw out the baby.
But why do I bother when there are utter losers that want to throw out democracy and have "libertarian" warlords running the place who can pollute upstream as much as they want because they have bigger guns than the guys downstream?
Especially when the rules of engagement require visual confirmation before weapons release. We've already had one commercial airliner "accidentally" shot down during a military conflict last year (MH17), so it's unlikely those requirements will be relaxed any time soon.
Also there was that time the US shot down Iran Air Flight 655, and then decided not to apologize or accept liability.
Don't worry - Pan Am cashed the check on that one over Scotland.
Too soon?
I don't know if an apology would have prevented such a reprisal, but it may have, so not giving one was still a very stupid mistake on top of another stupid mistake all over an even more stupid "show the flag" mission where an under-resourced fleet was sent into a war zone and an inexperienced Captain panicked.
Which is what tanks utterly suck against. In built up areas against infantry that can have either anti-tank weapons or force the tank down a path and drop a building on it with explosives you have a waste of the tank.
So the tanks sit outside and organised ground troops go against the disorganised ground troops.
That's really just a reinforcement of your point - many tools for different jobs.
True - those who do not even understand the most simple and obvious bits of history are doomed to suggest incredibly stupid shit. English debtors prisons resulted in overcrowding, which forced transportation, which among other issues upset American colonists to the point of revolution. The readers here probably all know that but these idiots pushing for a roll back to King George by filling the prisons with people who are no threat to society (non-violent civil offense) have missed the implications.
It's the sort of thing you'd suggest to your enemies to cripple their economy.
She imagined how they were applied in her new home country that she never understood - comparing Twentieth Century Fox to Stalinist Russia FFS!
Orwell and dozens of others say it better without reading that Rear-done screed about bringing back the nobility so born to rule jailbait can put us all in our place.
So nothing is better than trying at all?
Should I mutter about the kids of today and getting off my lawn?
The assets vanished and resurfaced elsewhere.
I don't know why you are standing up for this criminal.
My point is he's the poster boy for corruption, the very ugly side of America and not someone to be proud of. People who have done far less but don't have the right connections are in jail.
If he's running the place Greece will look like financial genius in comparison.
Only the debt he did not manage to evade thanks to fake bankruptcies and powerful friends protecting him from the law.
Doesn't it indicate that he's not willing to take responsibility for his own actions - also there is a lot more to it and others have gone to jail for less.
Yes. The EPA is one of the things the USA has to get in the way of such a thing happening on their turf.
I don't know anyone out of jail who has a similar skill set to Trump. The difference between him and them is powerful friends who kept the dogs off while he stole.
I'll add to that.
Three of the four people that debunked the "great flood" theory and laid the foundations for the science of geology were ordained. Funny how the first to truly show that the Earth was a lot older than 6000 years old were professional Christians. Then there is Mendel and Darwin. A very different league to speaking in tongues and lifting up serpents.
I have to admit being a bit biased against the extremists because a Pentacostal cult set up near me was mostly so the founder would have access to a lot of children to molest, as it turned out including his relatives - it was carefully hidden until his death. Another was an outright financial scam and the leaders are in jail. I know that Christianity-lite is not all like that, but it makes me a bit sceptical of motives.
A secure border is cheap, compared to not having one.
It's not going to happen so just see the wailing about it as the distraction that it is.
Illegal immigrants keep wages down so Republicans are not going to cut off the flow. The total lack of action by Bush, Bush and Reagan should be a bit of a clue in that area that there will be a total lack of action by the next Republican who gets a chance.
So do you like this process or would you prefer a bit less blatant third-world style corruption?
Mathematics is the science under it.
Economics is practised in a very different way to any science, especially all the parts that are built on a foundation of "political arithmetic". Add in a few strongly biased assumptions and science is left behind somewhere over the horizon.
So now you know why there are so many little stifled sniggers every time an economist who was not a mathematician first calls themself a scientist.
Just ask China about that cadmium in the rice they shipped that went into Soylent.
Do you really want kids poisoned by milk additives and everything else that goes with a lack of environmental regulation?
It's called being a scam artist. Also how is his tactic of hiding money, declaring bankruptcy, then finding the money again going to apply at a national level? He's got nothing that will make a positive contribution and it's best to keep him as far away from taxpayers money as possible.
A crash due to being asleep at the wheel (or to be more accurate, on vacation most of the time) is still his fault.
He's still got negative net worth.
Funny how after he took a lot of other people's money and said declared bankruptcy he suddenly found millions just after the original owners had no way to get it back.
Why does it matter?
This thief isn't going to be President.
If he tries hard enough difficult questions are going to be asked about how he had millions after bankruptcy and who his friends are that protected him from the law.
If Trump was forced to pay back what he owes a homeless man would have more wealth.
The brown rice protein, which has been replaced with soy in Soylent version 2.0.
Funny how it shows this processed food thing has traps for newbies just like other technical fields.
What a deluded little puppy you are. Pity I neither have a bridge to sell you or are dishonest enough to do so.