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Screwing over veteran's is an odd issue to be nonpartisan about. Blaming the Liberals would be a great idea. The main reason for the NVC was money though. Bean counters where nosing around Ottawa saying the cost of supporting veterans would be greater than prosecuting the war and that this was...

Eventually distance will matter again. Oil will inevitably cost many times what we pay now. Cities are for centuries,  something North Americans easily forget. Density will matter again. Then the suburbs will be abandoned first to the poor and then most likely torn down.

Public Relations can play the game when individual soldiers come forward. Say it is an isolated incident or a clerical oversight. In some cases they have illegally raided their VAC files and gone so far as character assassination and intimidation to stop valid complaints. They fired the last...

Not even close. During the height of the famine Vietnam owed a large amount of money to NK. They offered to pay the NK's in rice, but NK demanded it be paid in armaments. Estimates put famine deaths at around 2.5 million. If you are curious what would happen if we ran out of oil that is exactly...

It makes it rather hard to follow(or give) dangerous orders knowing you and your family are screwed if you get hurt. If this keeps up we will turn into France's Armée de Terre.

What if the civilian oversight has decided that it is financially prudent not to honour the unlimited liability agreement between soldiers and the government? If Public Relations now needs to resort to intimidation to try and stop the free flow of information I think the word is getting out...

The horror stories that could come out of the JPSU would make you want to punch someone. If you've known someone who works or worked there ask about some of the unfair things they have seen. Keeping vets quiet is part of the tax savings strategy.  To accomplish this Vets have to feel isolated...

I can't shake how often it falls into a pastiche of bad television plot lines. "Syria the Intervention" is so poorly written it reads like bad internet fan fiction. America has been funding, arming and training the rebels for quite some time. Suddenly when it looked like Assad was winning they...

He needs a real plan. If the A53 Oker has comms of Syrian officers asking for permission to use chemical weapons they also have geolocatio. I wouldn't mind sending those bastards some air mail.

Aren't you supposed to have an objective before you start military action? At least this sounds like a compelling reason to bomb them. Randomly bombing sh!t when it may very likely be rogue commanders responsible made little sense and had no deterrent value. Threatening same rogue commanders...

I wonder if Teflon paint would survive muzzle velocity. Wish I had a titanium plate to send you. I am curious now too.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/09/201398151357659161.html Assad says no evidence of chemical attack Syrian president, interviewed by US broadcaster, denies he was behind a chemical weapons attack in Damascus suburbs. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has denied that he was...

Google Georgia missile defence. We were well paid for our "humanitarian" intervention.

We have interests, not friends. We want strategic leverage, not moral authority. The real politik is much more nuanced and less naive about countries motivations once you travel. We don't do things for humanitarian reasons unless we get something  out of it. That is just for the media at home. ...

I don't think you've been many places. I don't know of any foreign countries where they actually think that about us. It is a comforting fable we tell ourselves to make us feel good. It has no reality outside our borders.

Maybe the crap sandwich wouldn't look so bad if there was a goal and someone in Washington sounded like they had a clue what was going on. How do you prevent ethnic cleansing of the Alawites if the rebels win? How do you prevent the Islamic radicals  from getting those weapons if they achieve...

Assad is an Alawite. They are roughly 12% of the population. If he loses outright I can guarantee it will be ethnic cleansing time. If he did actually use such weapons he must already be in a very desperate position. You would have to be nuts to take a bite of that shit sandwich. Who decided...

The HGH had some effects I did not expect at all. It reduced what must have been a constant feeling of anxiousness and increased my cold tolerance. It both relaxes and boosts metabolism.  I hope it helps with my old joints as well but that should take a few weeks. I am in shock how well the doc...

Obviously I fell through the cracks. If outcomes of treatment means anything I weigh again what I did when I got hurt(almost 5 more pounds to go). I ballooned to a size 40 waist when my injury was at it's worst, now I am back in 31's. I lost over 30 pounds of fat since starting the program. My T...