Replies

Toward the end the grandson makes this statement:

"The Time Traveler laughed a final time. “All of your grandsons’ names were on lists. You wrote something . . . will soon write something . . . that will put your name, and all your descendents’ names, on their list. Including your only surviving grandson.” "

So the grandfather is somehow implicated in the grandsons death as earlier it is pointed out that they were "setup".

I'll admit I am stumped. ;-)

sschu

Gentlemen thatnkyou for all the replies.

I guess we could debate this for ever, any argument I put forward will be discounted by the theyAreGoingToWinUnlessWeWakeUpandGetToughCrowd. As they are not like us, Islam is different and all the other types of argument.

I have read your replies, I love the Asymmetric warfare replies so scientific so analytical you would think it has nothing to do with blood guts and sh*t.

I have a number of questions

1)Are we winning losing or breaking even in Iraq. After all I have read a number of threads from guys on the ground who seem to think we are. I was chatting with a US Marine on the tactics they are using and how they are defeating the insurgents, and how more local people are coming foreword with information on terrorist locations

2) What is a win scenario.

3)What is the weakness in our COIN ops.

4)More ruthless and repressive measures how comes they failed in Afghanistan the Soviet Union had no qualms in using reprisals, hostage taking, wiping out whole villages, use of chemical weapons, torture.

Chechnya again the Russians don't suffer from our liberal weakness.

On the Eastern Front again such measures did not work and again in Yugoslavia under Nazi occupation.

5)For those who are talking about eradication If the most ruthless blood thirsty dictator Stalin using the most evil repressive police force the NKVD and OGBU and the most repressive measures could not eradicate religion from the Soviet Union, Christian as well as Islamic, how can we.

"The Time Traveler laughed a final time. “All of your grandsons’ names were on lists. You wrote something . . . will soon write something . . . that will put your name, and all your descendents’ names, on their list. Including your only surviving grandson.” "

Maybe Simmons is looking for/expecting a reaction to this story, one similar to that for the Danish cartoons..