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2019-07-07 Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka president vetoes military deal with the US

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 I will not allow the SOFA that seeks to betray the nation.

Example of a nation betraying SOFA

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-07 07:12|| 2019-07-07 07:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Darn it, Dron66046 — you didn’t know Pappy before he died. He would have sent you to your room for that one.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-07 08:14|| 2019-07-07 08:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Was Pappy, God rest his soul, a 'Burg founder ?

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-07 08:24|| 2019-07-07 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 No, Rantburg is Fred Pruitt’s baby. There’s a biography link, labelled bio in the yellow box in the right hand margin. Pappy showed up in the comments pretty early, though.

Pappy became a moderator, listed in the right margin with the naval grey highlighter. As I recall, he was tapped after I was, after having done a multi-year series of Pirate Watch posts for us, mostly about the situation along the Somali coast. He had been a Navy officer, one of those mustangs, I think they’re called, having started as an enlisted man. After he retired he came back as a civilian training Marines for Iraq. He made a point never to swear or raise his voice, and was all the more effective for it, for all he considered himself a cynic. And he loathed our Hemingway of the many nyms, whom he caught out faking military experience based on some facility with the written word and a few too many Hollywood Viet Nam movies, I miss him dreadfully.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-07 10:15|| 2019-07-07 10:15|| Front Page Top

#5 I can only hope for a like eulogy after I'm gone.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-07-07 15:49|| 2019-07-07 15:49|| Front Page Top

#6 You needn’t have any worries about that, Skidmark dear, though like Pappy you’ll have to die first. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-07 23:57|| 2019-07-07 23:57|| Front Page Top

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