Posted on 01/12/2005 11:19:43 PM PST by kattracks
ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN — The aircraft carrier leading the U.S. military's tsunami relief effort steamed out of Indonesian waters yesterday after the country declined to let the ship's fighter pilots use its airspace for training missions — part of a broad effort by Indonesia to reassert control over its territory.
The USS Abraham Lincoln's diversion, which was not expected to affect aid flights, came as the White House asked the Indonesian government to explain why it appears to be demanding that the U.S. military and other foreign troops providing disaster relief leave the country by the end of March.[snip]
The Indonesian government said foreign troops would be out of the country by March 31. "A three-month period is enough, even sooner the better," Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said Tuesday.
U.S. Marines have scaled back plans to send hundreds of troops ashore to build roads and clear rubble. The two sides reached a compromise in which the Americans agreed not to set up a base camp on Indonesia or carry weapons.
Instead, the Marines — about 2,000 of whom were diverted to tsunami relief from duty in Iraq — will keep a "minimal footprint" in the country, with most returning to ships at night, said Col. Tom Greenwood, commander of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit.[snip]
Under Navy rules, pilots of carrier-based warplanes cannot go longer than 14 days without flying, or their skills are considered to have degraded too far and they have to undergo extensive retraining.
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PLEASE, PREY TELL . . .
WHAT ON EARTH led you to the conclusion what I was chiding our side AT ALL?
I believe that Scripture is an incredible indictment of the Indonesian officials! THEY AND THEIR PEOPLE will pay for returning evil to the USA for the great good we have been sacrificially doing for and to them!
Hello?
Has my writing gotten THAT bad?
WHY all the jumping to the wrong conclusion????
I AGREE WITH YOU!!!!
Have agreed with you from the beginning!
That Scripture is an indictment of the
INDONESIANS!!!!
Sigh.
Another billion tax payer dollars wasted on 'good will' hunting....the more we give these people the more they hate us..and the more likely they are to take the money we give them ..buy weapons and use them against our people somewhere in the world..
imo
Let's not confuse the government of the country, with the people who live there.
The Indonesian government doesn't represent the people and could really care less about them.
Any ghost of a chance you could get him to read the historical record on Islam and Mohammad from their own sources?
I assume he had a horrid relationship with his father???
AMEN TO THAT!
In that region, it's usually
1) PRIDE, PRIDE, PRIDE, AND THEN MORE PRIDE.
2) Followed by insecurity and paranoia and macho bluster.
Are the key superiors who's traffic he has any access to at all, aware of his views?
I wouldn't given the givens . . .
but I'd sure think about pasting a Mickey Mouse sticker on his badge somehow.
Well said.
Maybe I should keep slapping my fingers to avoid responding further to your excellent points.
. . . sigh.
IT WOULD JUST BE NICE TO BE APPRECIATED FOR ONCE.......!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds like a group of divorced men talking about their alimony and child support payments.
Anyway, drop of the free stuff and let's go. The people will know it was from America and maybe thing will change in time.
Effing ingrates...disgusting!!!
Let them wallow in their own shi'ite!
Look at it as "Turban Renewal"..
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