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I've addressed all of these at length in previous threads, except for the Tiananmen one, which doesn't seem to me particularly good evidence for a Chinese plot for world domination. Pretty good indication of what happens to hippies in third world countries, though. So, same offer: Have new...

I didn't think so.  ;D

Really? Would you care to elaborate?

You mean like how after the Madrid bombings, which brought down the ruling Aznar goverment because they had tried to blame it on the ETA while it was obviously an Al Qaeda action, Spain dramatically increased it's troop prescence in Afghanistan while withdrawing its troops from the completely...

What ever do you mean by this?

Why, if this is supposed to be a sideswipe about my upper body strength, I'll have you know that I feel harassed, HARASSED!  :crybaby:

My big gripe with the hard box is that it makes it a PITA to fire from the shoulder. I imagine the 100 round pouch addresses this?

OK, I'm obviously not on the same page as you guys because I just don't understand the dynamic here. Everyone talks about this tour like it was a trip to Vegas or Disneyland or something. What about the MISSION? "I got screwed out of $20,000 in allowances" is a pretty silly complaint, because...

OK, the consensus that I thought we had reached, at the conclusion of many threads here on this topic, was  that employing reservists on operations was more trouble than it was CURRENTLY worth, since we have enough regs already. If this has since changed, then I retract my statement and offer my...

Is it not true? If not, then what is?

That's exactly why I was complaining about everyone taking this so personally. For the last time: Critique of our organizational failings != Criticism  of the individual soldier. It's not the fault of the individual soldier that reservists never get to do plt/coy live fires at night with NVGs...

Didn't we all agree on this on the last re-hashing of this topic? Of course the exact same irrelevant arguments (But I have a civvy job, but I have to live in Shilo, etc) were brought up and beaten to death too, or so I thought.....See, this is the problem when we discuss issues like this...

I don't understand what you are getting at. The questions from the survey were: Are you getting your threads confused or something? None of them begin with  "Do you support the war in........" Which one do you think is stupid?  ??? Love the sig line, BTW.  :)

We've had a huge number of discussions that clearly disprove your assertion. You are in way over your head. How about you actually sign up, go on a tour and  work with the regs in real world ops for a bit before spouting this garbage?

Isn't that, like, well, history? As opposed to current events?

Well, maybe you, the CDS, and BGen Fraser should go out back for a huddle and come back when you've agreed on some consistent terminology then.  :) Cite? When was the last time that happened for ANYTHING? Absurd. The Iraq war has ZERO direct effect on 99% of Americans. Why not bring in the...

Of course it isn't The Evil Americans™ poisoning the well, no such thing exists. The blame lies squarely with <a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11500950/site/newsweek/>the incompetent leadership of Bush and Rumsfield</a> for destroying all world support for TWAT and with <a...

Well, my sources are more lectures than books, but there's plenty of them out there. Phalanx warfare(Classical, as opposed to Macedonian) isn't really as well understood as most people think it is. E.g. The classic model of a Phalanx battle depicts the two sides crashing together on shields and...

Assuming you're not talking about the other members of the Delian League.... Not absolute monarchies, to be certain, but neither does it bear much resemblance to modern liberal democracy. As I understand, most Greek Polis(including Sparta, I think) had some kind of assembly of aristocrats who...

This seems like a pretty wide generalization. Ancient Greek cities, with the exception of Athens, were monarchies. Hoplites became hoplites by way of being rich enough to be able to afford their own kit. Attributing our ideas of equality and voting assemblies to states that we today know pretty...