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2004-02-23

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Posted by Dragon Fly 2004-02-23 9:20:09 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What good could these staffers possibly do during the total chaos that is unfolding? I can't imagine that there is any valuable intelligence to be had on the rabble. I would hope we aren't processing any Visa's. I'm sure that anything they are doing could be accomplished safely from the Dominical Republic.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-2-23 9:32:18 AM|| 2004-2-23 9:32:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Adapt, improvise, overcome!
Aye, aye, Gunny Highway!

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-2-23 9:40:40 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-2-23 9:40:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Those 50 Marines, with enough supplies, could probably take Haiti. But then again who would want Haiti. Let the French have it back.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-2-23 10:57:41 AM|| 2004-2-23 10:57:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 One would suspect that the evacuation order is on, but why advertise it until the last second and encourage hostage taking?

Posted by Hiryu 2004-2-23 11:03:18 AM|| 2004-2-23 11:03:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder if anbody's playing Johnny Cash?

"I fell down in a burnin' ring of fire..."

Posted by mojo 2004-2-23 11:53:38 AM|| 2004-2-23 11:53:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Fifty marines are just enough to make sure the rebels don't try to take the US Embassy, but not enough to act as a force to stop the rebels, or give Jean Baptiste any ridiculous ideas. Kind of a neat balancing act - "we protect our own, but you're on YOUR own".

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-2-23 12:23:02 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-2-23 12:23:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 In general I would say you are correct Old Patriot, but I think you underestimate the how far reputation can take them. In the old days the Marines could take over small countries liek Haiti with a handful of people because they were disciplined and the rebels were not. They built up a reputation so that most aggressors faded into the jungles rather than fight.

I have to believe the reputation has increased after Afghanistan/Iraq.

Its like the Naval reputation the British had where larger German and Italian ships often fled battles they should have been able to win.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-2-23 1:55:31 PM|| 2004-2-23 1:55:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Yah know... the 22nd MEU set sail for points East on February 19. Link

Kinda like Grenada???

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-2-23 3:39:06 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-2-23 3:39:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 In the old days the Marines could take over small countries liek Haiti with a handful of people because they were disciplined and the rebels were not

Yep. Haiti was run for a few years after the second intervention by a group of retired gunny's.

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-23 4:44:04 PM|| 2004-2-23 4:44:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I would think that the 22nd MEU will soon be sighted off the coast of Lebanon.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-2-23 9:16:43 PM|| 2004-2-23 9:16:43 PM|| Front Page Top

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