Without the US Military all you people would have been
killed in WWII or made slaves to the Japs!!! Got It!?
We require our Military to be “Uniform” for a reason that
you do not understand ! (haircut~shave),,,
As for a “non-existent military “,,,
How many Carriers does Your country Have ?
How many heavy bombers ?
How many ICBM’s ?
How many subs ?
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Ships and Submarines
Deployable Battle Force Ships: 283
Ships Underway (away from homeport): 127 ships (45 % of total)
On deployment: 117 ships (41 % of total)
Attack submarines underway (away from homeport): 36 submarines (66%)
On deployment: 24 submarines (44%)
Ships Underway
Carriers:
USS George Washington (CVN 73) - Pacific Ocean
USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) - Pacific Ocean
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) - Atlantic Ocean
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) - Pacific Ocean
USS George Bush (CVN 77) - Atlantic Ocean
Amphibious Warfare Ships:
USS Nassau (LHA 4) - Atlantic Ocean
USS Essex (LHD 2) - East China Sea
USS Boxer (LHD 4) - 5th Fleet
USS Bataan (LHD 5) - Adriatic Sea
USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) - Atlantic Ocean
Aircraft (operational): 3700+
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All paid for by US Taxpayers and manned by AMERICANS !
If they don't like the rules here they can go back to
the Turd world Shiite hole that they came from !!!...
O goody. The “you should be grateful / aren’t we mighty” speech. You gotta know this gets tiresome after a while.
And it drags the thread way off-topic. You write:
> Without the US Military all you people would have been killed in WWII or made slaves to the Japs!!! Got It!?
I’m not going to rise to that. It’s a false boast that does the Allied war dead no credit.
Don’t you Yanks ever get tired boasting? The rest of us certainly get tired of listening to it.
> We require our Military to be “Uniform” for a reason that you do not understand ! (haircut~shave),,,
Then let’s hear your rationale, as it is something quite unique to the rest of the Free World. That’s what we are trying to discuss on this thread: the rest is off-topic.
> How many Carriers does Your country Have ?
Two. We call them “North Island” and “South Island” and they cannot be sunk.
> Ships and Submarines
Deployable Battle Force Ships: 283
(snip)
All of that is irrelevant.
Let’s ask a better question: the coalition of the willing is fighting an asymmetric war against radical muslim irregulars. On average, how much has it cost to kill each terrorist, in dollar terms?
Let’s follow it up with another excellent question: these irregular terrorist forces are being financed by some of the richest countries in the world, true? How much do you think it is costing the enemy to kill coalition forces?
The enemy’s costs will be several orders of magnitude less.
Moreover, the enemy does not need to borrow Treasure to fight America. You, on the other hand, do need to borrow to fight the enemy.
The enemy can pay cash — cash that you have borrowed from the ChiComs so you can buy the enemy’s oil at the ridiculous prices that their OPEC cartel sets. In essence, they are fighting you with your own money, that you’ve borrowed and are paying interest on!
It is clear that the American military model is unsustainable. It does not matter how many vessels you have in your navy. And truth be told, it doesn’t matter how many men you have in your Army. Or how many hi-tech whiz-bangs you’ve built at millions of dollars apiece.
The US will run out of money, fighting this war in the manner in which it is being fought, long before the terrorists will. They have endless supplies of money, endless supplies of men (Indonesia has HEAPS of muslims) and a really inexpensive but effective war model.
Your resources, however, are finite and getting ever more finite as each day goes by and with each multi-trillion-dollar non-military spend-up your Commander-in-Chief is committing to.
How does that make sensible war-making?
We were involved in WW2, from August 26th, 1939.
You joined up after Dec. 7th, 1941.
It is a popular misconception among Americans that the US voluntarily entered WW2, at least against the Germans. In fact, the US didn't. The US entered the general war as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor. But the US entered against Japan and did not, repeat not, declare war on Germany. However, a few days after Pearl Harbor, Hitler declared war on the US, thereby putting an end to the US dilemma. After a meeting between Churchill and Poosevelt, it was agreed that the British and Americans would have a "Germany first" policy. Whether the Americans would have declared war on Germany had not Hitler made the decision for them is one of the great unanswered questions of history. The US had, of course, been completely isolationist prior to 7 December 1941 - Roosevelt's Lend-Lease programme had got through Congress by one, repeat one, vote. The answer is that yes, probably the US would have entered the war against Germany, but possibly not on the scale that it did, and almost certainly not with Germany being given priority over Japan. But nobody will ever know for sure.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_the_US_become_involved_in_World_War_2
There. Fixed it. Truth in Advertising.
Unless America suddenly discovers a new way to generate massive wealth, your great-grandchildren will be paying for all this kit long after this generation of US Taxpayers are gone.
Now exactly what this has to do with Sikhs in the US military I will never know, but you took us down this path and I felt it useful to follow it to where it ultimately leads.