American power - Armed to the teeth

The Observer ^ | Sunday February 10, 2002 | Is America too powerful for its own good?

[vannrox]

· You haven't seen NOTHIN' yet!

[ArcLight]

A single US nuclear-powered carrier group - which forms around the USS Enterprise, for example, with a flight deck almost a mile in length and a superstructure 20 storeys high - concentrates more military power in one naval group than most states can manage with all their armed forces. America has seven of these battle groups.

A mile-long aircraft carrier! Cool! Let's buy two!

[petuniasevan]

Here's the link to the original THREAD.

[Own Drummer]

Lie back and think of England, you wussy Euro-turds... the Great Satan is on the move. Enough appeasement, enough "sophisticated diplomacy"--we've tried all that, and we got bitten in return.

To quote my favorite movie line (from Tombstone): "You've called down the storm--now prepare for the thunder." Or something like that.

[a_Turk]

'The war on terrorism,' says Professor Paul Rogers, of Bradford University's Department of Peace Studies, 'is simply a euphemism for extending US control in the world, whether it is by projecting force through its carriers or building new military bases in central Asia.'

Sour grapes prof! Makes you realize what a weenie you are doesn't it.

There's us who don't put up with terrorists, then there's you who offers up his sister to them. It's time for you to move on over now.

[hoosierboy]

You think the USA has a great armed forces. We also have a great armed citizenry.

[petuniasevan]

Here's what they MEANT to say:

   Wahhh!  We can't afford the neat new toys you Americans have!

It's not FAIR!  Our museums need funding, and we need more diversity training,
 so we can't AFFORD a big military!

We'll let you Americans rescue us from totalitarianism, then we'll go back to
 bashing you 'cause YOU'VE GOT MORE THAN US!  Boo hoo!

[PhilDragoo]

'The war on terrorism,' says Professor Paul Rogers, of Bradford University's Department of Peace Studies, 'is simply a euphemism for extending US control in the world, whether it is by projecting force through its carriers or building new military bases in central Asia.'

What the freak is a "Department of Peace Studies"?

I'm thinking here, "Peace, peace, but there is no peace. . . ."

As for this Beijing parrot shrieking hegemonism ("extending US control in the world")--shades of "imperialist warmonger".

Why couldn't Paul Rogers have been in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001?

Paul, stay back: my dog will bite.

[a_Turk]

He's saying something that almost sounds like "The US appreciates the WTC attack, which it now uses as an excuse to conquer the world." Very similar in ways to Arab delusions about the attacks being executed by Jews.

Strange people. Wonder what drugs he's on..

[MonroeDNA]

This dog WILL bite!

Let's ROLL!

[Fireone]

How very true! Our enemies can't fathom the power and resolve of those of us that hold freedom so dearly. They don't want to wake up this "sleeping giant".

George W. was here today--Go Norm Coleman!!!

[ScholarWarrior]

We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!

And if they so much as blink, we're going to blow them to Mars.

And this time, we won't make the same mistake the Romans did.

[another cricket]

He's projecting. After all if he had that much military power he would be trying to take over the world.

That the Americans really aren't interested in doing so and find having to be the world’s nanny more then a little annoying is incomprehensible to him.

A. Cricket

[Spruce]

"War is conflict. Fighting is an elemental exposition of the age old effort to survive."
"It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye that breaks the line, not the point of the bayonet."
"The world has no use for a defeated soldier and nothing too good for a victor."
"As long as man exists, there will be war. The only way to avoid trouble is to have the best Army, Navy, and Air Force."
"The only thing to do when a son of a bitch looks cross-eyed at you is to beat the hell out of him right then and there"

- General George S. Patton -

[429CJ]

I remember the time when I was serving on the Enterprise and I decided to take a jog around the flight deck for exercise. A quarter mile long meant a half mile round trip. One lap around and I was out of breath. Man was I out of shape. I really felt bad. NOW I find out that that damn ship was a MILE long. I had actually ran TWO MILES!!! Now I don't feel so bad.

[Texaggie79]

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #1

These people call themselves experts. But they missed one important piece of puzzle about why so much increase in defense budget is planed. U.S. military is moving into space big time. Not just spy and communication satellites but satellite which takes off from runway and go up to orbit and reenter into atmosphere and land on the runway again. And orbital directed energy weapon stations. Orbital bombers. So it is wrong to say that what U.S. does is like ordering more cavalries before WWI. U.S. is ordering B-29 and P-51 before WWI. I am shocked that they completely missed it.

[Spruce]

Har Har! Gotta love the Puppy post in a sabre-rattlin war drum-beatin topic! LOL!

[kaylar]

That's the best one yet!