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2004-12-01 Caribbean-Latin America

US watching Russian arms sales to Venezuela

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Posted by Steve 2004-12-01 1:06:56 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Emerging paranoid MSM Meme du Jour: The New Cold War

Posted by lex 2004-12-01 2:46:11 PM|| 2004-12-01 2:46:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Not to worry, the Air Force always either:

1.) Start the coup
B.) Can't fly

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-01 4:44:32 PM|| 2004-12-01 4:44:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 They always start the coup?

I thought the whole point was that it was easier to vet the loyalty of a couple hundred pilots / knights-in-shining-migs than a couple tens of thousands of infantrymen.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-12-01 4:57:06 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-12-01 4:57:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, an article on increased missile development by China compared to buildups in personnel (complete with cutbacks in army size) stated that whereas you can make an army look scary enough to hold down the population without them needing to be good, you need a higher level of competence to "fake it" with your air force. You can discount the loyalty of tens of thousands of infantrymen if they all suck compared to loyalist elites -- if your pilots sucked as bad, they'd crash 24/7. Missiles don't have loyalty issues ...

Posted by Edward Yee 2004-12-01 5:03:50 PM|| [http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2004-12-01 5:03:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Think bombing the Presidential Palace, abode, hometown, :) The pilots can start it up and if it don't look good.... scram!

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-01 5:52:33 PM|| 2004-12-01 5:52:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Whereas the infantrymen will probably FUBAR it and fail at their fleeing attempt ...

Posted by Edward Yee 2004-12-01 6:45:15 PM|| [http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2004-12-01 6:45:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "Let me put it this way: We shoot down MiGs,"

Gotta love Rumsfeld.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-12-01 8:22:00 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-12-01 8:22:00 PM|| Front Page Top

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