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The point we all have to keep in mind is the nature of politicians and bureaucrats...they are empire-builders. Empire builders amass power and their natural tendency is to keep doing so, hence the overly complicated tax system, that the ordinary layman can never fully comprehend. Therefore the...

I remember about 10-15 years ago, the late Peter Jennings of ABC news, offered the same idea about the cocaine crop in South America. He pointed out that the cost of buying up all the coca production directly from the farmers would be far less than the amount of money the US was spending on...

      7 of 9  yumyum ;D

Looking good! I'm wondering if they'll be remaining in green or will the crews tone them down with camo paint....or will they just let them get "naturally" camo'd with dust and road dirt? Cheers Gene

I'm wondering about, in relation to cavalry,...its my understanding and I might be wrong I admit, but didn't the use of stirrups come after the "fall" of Rome?  If that is in fact what happened then I think that the change in the way  the horsemans weapons(lance,spear,sword) would be used, due...

dapaterson....I tend to agree with you but since this thread was dealing with a manufacturer and not airlines or their staff...or service....

DBA.....if that Bloomberg article is correct I find it very unsettleing....course I had no plans to ever get on that big white whale at all. I've never, speaking only as a fare-paying passenger, liked the Airbus aircraft anyways. Just my opinion. Gene

another one....I believe its called " The Enemy Below" with Kurt jurgens as a U-boat commander and Robert Mitchum as the destroyer capitain hunting him cheers Gene

Wannabe....pretty big list.....but ya forgot the....Korean War :o

I agree with Octavianus about the "Emperor" series, its a great read full of information. But one must keep in mind that it is historical FICTION and not a detailed scholarly work, nor does it purport to be...it is however full of interesting information. Well worth the read. Cheers Gene

Another little tidbit about the Roman "punishment" of decimation.....in most cases it was the other nine guys who had to kill the tenth....and usually by beating  I believe....brutal but apparently worked "pour encourager les autres" Cheers Gene

I think that, although for the purpose of this discussion useing a start date of 1917/Balfour Declaration is very sensible, we must also take into consideration the general makeup of the area in question, as it was ,immediatly precedeeding the 1917 start date. Example: pre 1917 and going back...

it's probably impossible to definativly say that the taliban/al queda is getting financed through the opium trade...however common sense dictates that some at least some of their funding is through the drug-trade. i submit that even if that source of revenue dried up completely they would...

The farmers that do the growing are just that....farmers who are growing a crop so they can buy food,pay the rent,clothe their kids and pay their school fees....hardly narco-terrorists.

Exactly the response i would expect from the Russians.....remember Lebanon. Gene

I'm going to stick my 2 cents in here.....past history has shown that prohibition doesn't work and past history has shown that crop eradication doesn't work, as a matter of fact it only drives the farmers into deeper poverty and engenders hostility by the local population..and haveing the local...

My understanding is that this missle might be able to reach Alaska....bad enough...... and that a second generation of it might be able to reach the west coast...which is even worse.......but "into the heart of America and Canada"???

Sorry...my point in posting that was that the actual first flight appears to be a year later(2008) than in your letter(2007)...it backs your case even more ;D

Signalman150, i just copied this tidbit off of the Airbus page...the bold is mine.  Cheers Gene. The A400M will first fly in early 2008 with deliveries beginning in 2009.

I don't understand what all the angst is about.......nasty stuff happens everyday, more so dureing war and even more so dureing and just after battle. Seems to me that common sense, if nothing else, dictates that Canadian soldiers probably did things, that we,in hind-sight, might call a war...