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Started by Hansmeister, April 28, 2009, 06:46:18 AM

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KRonn

#15
April 28, 2009, 10:58:02 AM
Interesting stuff in that talk. Some of it we've heard before. I'm surprised, a bit concerned, at the hide bound mentality of the Military command to resist change in Iraq, even as it probably should have seen what was being done wrongly. Top Brass even resisted General Petraeus' ideas, saying we should leave, can't get the job done? I figured that the military was changing, or would change, to adapt to conditions in Iraq, or anywhere for that matter. Amazing that after so many years, hundreds of years of history of armies fighting the last war, that the US Army still fell into the same trap in Iraq. Especially after seeing the effectiveness of a small number of special forces troops in Afghanistan just shortly before. Now the Army is hugely supportive of spec forces, finally I guess.

Razgovory

#16
April 28, 2009, 11:02:08 AM
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Ancient Demon

#17
April 28, 2009, 11:49:06 AM
Sadly I can't watch the speech. Is it available in a different format?
Ancient Demon, formerly known as Zagys.

The Brain

#18
April 28, 2009, 12:19:43 PM
Quote from: Ancient Demon on April 28, 2009, 11:49:06 AM
Sadly I can't watch the speech. Is it available in a different format?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KgJQUXr2Ws
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

fhdz

#19
April 28, 2009, 12:34:54 PM
and the horse you rode in on

Tamas

#20
April 28, 2009, 12:50:34 PM
Quote from: Zanza2 on April 28, 2009, 10:14:06 AM
Quote from: Caliga on April 28, 2009, 09:35:12 AM
Isn't he German (as in, lived in Germany)?
Doesn't sound like a German accent though.


It does remind me a bit of the English of some of the German colleauges I talk to on the phone, though.

Josquius

#21
April 28, 2009, 01:04:43 PM
Sounds Germanish to me too.
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Viking

#23
April 28, 2009, 03:48:38 PM
Doesn't sound like a 'murrican... I'm suspicious.. BTW wtf is Army Psyops doing at the John Locke foundation? Is it a front?
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Hansmeister

#24
April 28, 2009, 05:16:21 PM
Quote from: Viking on April 28, 2009, 03:48:38 PM
Doesn't sound like a 'murrican... I'm suspicious.. BTW wtf is Army Psyops doing at the John Locke foundation? Is it a front?

I used to work there.

Siege

#25
April 28, 2009, 10:25:31 PM
I love the suit.

Ok Hans, spill the beans. Where is your accent from?

By the way, I relate to you. I have a foreign accent and it have made my carrer in the US Army that much harder.



"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

Siege

#26
April 28, 2009, 10:32:06 PM
I don't agree that the army had changed little between 1941 and 2001.

The 7-8 didn't even exist in 1941.



"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

Siege

#27
April 28, 2009, 10:33:41 PM
Ok, Hans, you got me.

What's your first language?



"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

Habbaku

#28
April 28, 2009, 10:34:48 PM
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Siege

#29
April 28, 2009, 10:34:55 PM
I agree with 1991 and "Not improving upon a success".


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"
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