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2008-08-14 Terror Networks

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Posted by 3dc 2008-08-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Reagan knew the answer to this one. We GIVE weapons to everyone who is of a mind to cause russia trouble. And not just rusty AKs, lets give em air defense stuff and rockets too. We're all about sending trainers, why don't we be real dicks like NKor and send weapons in UNICEF containers.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-14 08:18|| 2008-08-14 08:18|| Front Page Top

#2 We should have let General George Patton have his way at the end of WWII, i.e. take care of the commie ba$tards.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-08-14 12:57|| 2008-08-14 12:57|| Front Page Top

#3 #2 We should have let General George Patton have his way at the end of WWII, i.e. take care of the commie ba$tards.
Posted by: JohnQC 2008-08-14 12:57
The problem with that, John, is that we'd probably still be fighting that battle. The logistics of supplying a warring army in a nation that spans twelve time zones are almost unbelievable. The amount of raw territory occupied by the then Soviet Union were astounding. We didn't (don't) have the manpower to do that and keep up the industrial base to supply such an operation. It was logistics, not firepower, that halted both Napoleon and Hitler. The same thing would have happened to the United States.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-08-14 19:18|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-08-14 19:18|| Front Page Top

#4 This is a parlor game, but destruction of the Soviet Union was doable by 1947. Stalin put most of his tyranny's troops in defense of Moscow, based on the pivot of his military doctrine: "central command." When the Nazis reached within 20 miles of Moscow, Stalin encircled same and forced general retreat. In 1945, crippled Russia was Moscow plus a strong military. Their air force was never strong, thus Moscow was vulnerable to nuclear destruction. I believe that act would have caused collapse. Did the US have the capacity to make sufficient N-bombs for the task? The Manhattan Project was mostly directed to creating a workable design plan. Once that was achieved, the only outstanding issue was: fission fuel. Everything else was in place. Given ample resources to direct at fuel production, there were really no obstacles to delivering a massive attack on our former ally. However, there was peace euphoria in 1945, and most people wanted the slaughter halted. And the Cold War didn't get going until the Soviet espionage cases were made public and Churchill spoke of an "Iron Curtain," in his Fulton, Missouri speech.

Lesson: we need to need to recognize our worst enemy - Islamofascism - and annihilate them on a global scale. We don't have a Cold War with that enemy; we have indulged them with a Cold Surrender.

Posted by McZoid 2008-08-14 21:20|| 2008-08-14 21:20|| Front Page Top

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