Posted on 03/18/2011 8:19:55 PM PDT by WesternCulture
Why do Americans drive around in Fred Flintstone vehicles and what's the underlying problem behind the vast majority of Brits buying Fords and Vauxhalls year after year? Why does your tap water taste like sh*t and why don't Italians tear down buildings that no longer are in use?
What's the idea of building a house out of cardboard?
Denmark has the highest wages on Earth. Norway can compete. OK. But why is it that every time I visit our dear western neighbors I feel sorry for people driving wrecks instead of Volvo V70s?
Is the V70 a far too sophisticated vehicle for your marijuana-inflicted brains?
Get a grip.
Grow up.
You have a nation to run.
Please visit Sweden once in your lifetime and study how civilized people live and work.
In case you're healthy and normally furnished in the brain department there's no reason why you should not drive a nice Volvo/BMW/M-B/Audi/SAAB/Cadillac and own a nice home.
Feel free to criticise me.
Saturday Night Live: Pumping Up with Hanz and Franz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Ko3fODp3c
Volvos do not work very well in the mountains here. They break too easily and get stuck in the drifts of snow-ice.
Hey.
Norwegian pilots have been flying AWACS planes for weeks already outside the Libyan coast.
Now we have sent six f-16 fighters, which seems to be the token number sent by smaller nations such as Canada, Holland and Denmark. Some 100+ pilots and personnel is also being sent.
btw. Swedishculture attacked Norway too in his post.
Anyhow, sometimes when I am bored I do a search for him to find his latest vanity. They can be great entertainment if you are in the mood.
Godspeed,
Euro.
Forgotten that. Sad.
Yeah I know.
But all that doesn’t take place in some tiny euro vacuum that pretends to be independant.
Norway is NATO and besides all that there is no way they can fly into the area without Carrier and Naval support by the United States of America.
AWAC’s, satellite and drones. All US of A.
Seal and Green Beret spotting missions and lazing.
Support from assets in Malta, Italy, Greece, Israel, etc.
3 fighters here and 5 fighters there from NATO countries don’t operational capabilities without US. Period.
I saw where Swedishculture stuck it to the effete wannabe’.
“But all that doesn’t take place in some tiny euro vacuum that pretends to be independant.”
No one claimed otherwise. The Norwegian AWACS pilots who have been patrolling the Libyan coast flew American planes I assume, or some sort of Nato assets.
The small numbers contributed by the different nations are there mostly to put an international gloss on the operations - especially the limited arab contributions. The heavy lifting is obviously being done by the U.S, France and the UK.
Though even small numbers can sometimes make a difference. It was reportedly Norwegian F-16’s in Afghanistan who took out much of the Zawahiri clan.
In operation overlord two Norwegian Spitfire squadrons provided air superiority over Omaha beach. Hopefully they helped save a few American lives.
Cheers.
Sorry wasn’t being disagreable and did not intend to imply you were.
Of you weren’t. I was just talking out loud.
Dang keyboard can’t express itself in the same way one could if we were in the same room.
Cheers.
A Swede is just a Norwegian with the brains knocked out....
Ask any Norwegian.
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