Why is McCain always so ready to go to war.
He was right about having to have soldiers in Iraq for 40 years, or whatever he said.
can’t think of anything else he’s been right on.
But did he not say they “will”. Try that question on a Patton acolyte. Panty waste posterior orifices!
What a farce!
Our military has been so politicized that our generals can’t even go to the bathroom without getting permission from Obama directly.
The day will come that we will have another “Pearl Harbor” incident...this time due to political correctness and the complete “gutting” of our military’s ability to react without asking permission in fear of making a political incident and subsequent punishment of those who made professional military decisions.
We are the laughing stock of the world.
If IIRC, Powers was over Russian territory when he got shot down....and Russia didn't call for war.
I find it “funny” we reprimand army privates for not wearing a PT vest but we are not even mentioning the word reprimand when Russians make near Kamikaze approaches of our boats with litteral flying bombs
If the Russians parked warships in the Gulf of Mexico 70 miles off our coast, would we be buzzing them?
Could the Russians then shoot down our planes for endangering Russian lives?
Enquiring minds want to know who is setting up all this provocation, the role of Senator McCain, and what is the end game?
These incidents are Putin’s way of giving Obama a wedgie.
A friend in the Navy while Carter was President said that Syrian planes would regularly break the sound barrier while passing between and below the tops of the ship’s masts. Glass broke, sailors got broken ear drums. He said the moment Reagan became president the close passes stopped.
The problem here is the perceived weakness of the President. To the world, the US military must look like a pro-wrestler body with five o’clock shadow but wearing lipstick, high heels and a long, blond wig.
Why do we care what a general says about the navy?
This thing about Russia buzzing our ships lacks one important detail.
The Russians do their playing around with their transponders active which means, on our radars, they are showing IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) long before they can be identified visually as being Russian.
They would signal as friend.
They know the risk of turning their transponders off and approaching our ships.
I think I better begin building a bomb shelter. The inmates are running the asylum.
Try screening the ship with some cheap drones, and if the Russians want to fly their multimillion dollar planes into thousand dollar drones to see who gets the better of the exchange, dollar-for-dollar, let them.
The late Col. David Hackworth, one the most highly-decorated soldiers U.S. Army history, was also one of the most vociferous critics of McCain decades ago. I had personal (email) correspondence with Hack in the late 1990’s and he was singly-focused on talking about was a dangerous, war-mongering, treacherous person McCain was and how if he becomes President we’ll all screwed.
The plane should have been shot down, the commander should be removed from command.
Another line in the sand (water).
Another Obama General, career over country.