Posted on 06/14/2025 8:10:56 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
When your defenses aren’t imbedded in apt buildings with civilians like in Gaza, it’s pretty easy pickens for Israel.
Hopefully Israeli F-35 performance is being shared with us?
Yes, I was thinking “poor Laos” as I read your earlier post. Cambodia got bombed pretty good, too, but poor, poor Laos.
There weren’t any bombs falling when I was in Cambodia, of course, but there were still skirmishes between what the locals called “Pol Pot Men” (DK) and “Hun Sen Men”.(SOC) When they got up to bad stuff against Cambodian civilians or internationals, they’d dress yes up in the uniforms of the other side so they would be blamed. Then they stopped bothering with that and claimed the bad stuff was done by the other side dressed up as them. It got to be a joke that it was DK dressed as SOC dressed as DK...and on and on.
One had to have to have quite the “tolerance for ambiguity” there. I could only imagine how much worse for our guys during the Vietnam War. You never could tell by their uniform or professed allegiance which side they were truly on and whether they meant to kill you.
Anyway, all I had to deal with in Cambodia was a bit of shelling, occasionally being shot at, baddies trying to down the chopper I was on with RPGs — and mines, lots of mines. Next up was former Yugoslavia where I found myself in the very middle of a real honest to goodness shooting war.
But I never had to go through what you guys went through during the Vietnam War — I know that was exponentially worse (understatement).
Wow. What an amazing story from your brother! I love these stories. Thank you!
My much-adored-by-me uncle was a green recruit who was swiftly shipped off to Florida during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was just a newly-minted PFC at the time, and his tales of those days are hilarious as he highlights his cluelessness as to what was happening and why they were about to load him and his buddies onto some boat, but of course hindsight bleeds dark edges around his stories for me, knowing how it might have turned out for him (and the rest if us) had cooler heads not prevailed in the end.
IIRC, he once talked about seeing the military planes being readied in Florida, but my memory is faulty there. I’ll have to ask him about that when we chat on the phone tomorrow.
Yes, from Cuba to Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia to former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen — what exactly did we accomplish? Now it’s war against Russia and Iran, with China on the menu.
I ran a little errand before posting this and ran into an acquaintance from Jordan who showed me pictures he had just received on his phone of how falling debris had impacted the neighborhood where he grew up. Sad to see all the damage, but he said at least no one was killed.
Figured, down to three possibilities.
A lot of virgins being put to work. May they all look like Ruth Buzzy.
The current situation is full of risk, no matter how the military advances go.
As soon as the bond markets open, on Monday morning, the US dollar will be facing a day of reckoning. There has been unprecedented weakness in the market for US bonds in recent months. This is because of the trade wars.
Now, there is a costly new military conflict. Who would buy US bonds in these circumstances?
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