While it was the biggest single loss of aircraft in a while, 8 does not equal "most of our aircraft fleet". The bigger issue with that attack was how easily they got into the base.
Some people having doubts I can see...but an entire unit, whining nonstop for an entire mini-campaign? Having grown up in the military community (dad was USAF, uncles were USMC and Army, mom and Grandpa were Navy...I grew up on or right next to military bases of assorted types), I'm having a hard time seeing anything other than the combat sequences in Private Ryan as anything more than Hollywood drama-induction via watered-down Vietnam-era's soldier memes.
Even with my friends who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, there wasn't that kind of whining. They complained about conditions, weapons, ROE, etc; but I've never heard them whine about "ZOMG WHY ARE WE DOING THIS/WHY ARE WE HERE?!" like the guys in Private Ryan; and they get disgusted with civilians who try to do it on their behalf.
And it's literally like one line of dialogue. He was a smuggler who we kept interdicting, so he was mad at the USA. He was just incidentally Jewish. As Jumpmaster said, the interrogator was surprised and asked why he was helping the Muslim terrorist badguy, and it was because they both were mad at America and the Muslim guy converted after they'd parted ways after being friends as kids.
Exactly. Easier to blame it on piracy and Netflix than to actually do any market research.
Sorta, the natives were probably packing a few Winchester M1866s, which uses the same repeating system as the Henry and were produced in far greater numbers (about 10x as many were made); but recent forensic studies of the field and recovered shells shows they used basically whatever they could get their hands on and picked up 7th Cav weapons as they went . 7th Cav was equipped with Model 1873 Springfield Trapdoor Carbines and Colt .45's (officers could buy their own weapons; Custer had custom dual pistols and a .50 Remington sport rifle). They had slightly longer effective range, but a lower firing rate than the repeaters.
Custer also left the canons behind because they were too slow for how he wanted to move, and he refused to deploy his two Gatlings at all because he didn't believe they'd work.
Also, ignoring the fact that a lot of the Jews are only there to begin with because of the Holocaust and the Nazi's initial attempts at deportation, and later Jews trying to escape, and the Brits trying to find a place to put them...
Jester, the problem lies in that the Occupiers set up these safe zones only after women had to just about overthrow the leadership meetings and threaten to start making a stink out of it to the press. Not that long ago -about a month or so-, one of the Occupy group' leadership boards (think it was Oakland) beat one of the women raising the issue into a concussion with a chair for bringing it up repeatedly when they were trying to ignore the issue. They've also been dissuading going to the police, and instead want women to report it to some sort of internal security apparatus; which has been doing nothing (thus the one lady who got beaten being a pain)
I'm 29, and most of my friends are around that age. A lot are more fond of Paul than I am. My problem with him is he starts off saying some good stuff; then goes off into realms of crazy/ignorance with it. Like his belief that if we pulled out of everywhere, then everywhere would at least be neutral to us. History does not bear this out (Barbary anyone?). His Constitutional stances are much the same way; like when he gets going off on how not being on the gold standard is unconstitutional. The gold standard and it's pluses and minuses are debatable, but the only place gold is even mentioned at all is in Article I, Section 10, where it bans states from printing individual state currencies of gold and silver.
Txborn, I'm firmly convinced they'd still go after us even if we did a 100% pullout. In fact, I believe if we invented cold fusion and a non-petroleum based safe artificial lubricant for those engines (not gonna happen...), they'd hate us all the more for inventing the end of the only thing they really have for an economic resource. That a lot of these groups we're having trouble with blame us for stuff we haven't done, and some of it stuff that happened before we, as a country, existed tends to bear this out, I think.
The problem is that they both go off, in interviews, about how they're informing the public; but when caught in outright lies, they fall back to "WELL I'M JUST A COMEDIAN! IT'S A JOKE! LIGHTEN UP!" You expect some exaggeration to go on in their particular field; but they make stuff up out of whole cloth and run it as the serious/factual setup for a later joke far too often for my taste, which is why I stopped watching both years ago.
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