Somebody’s feeling his oats, looks like. Not sure exactly who, but this would not have happened under Dubya or Ronaldus Magnus.
Colonel, USAFR
Gee, we heard news last week that Britain is losing its blue water fleet due to cut-backs.
Now, Argentina is thumbing its military nose at Obama and our military.
Can anyone say Falklands II?
In the “bad old days”, the matter might well have been settled by resort to one or another piece of field craft intelligence, whose existence would be quietly communicated to the affected party in such a manner as to make it clear that we meant business. A high-ranking diplomat in New York, captured on film cavorting after hours with prostitutes would perhaps suffice. It worked both ways, of course, and tended to keep relations cordial at a higher level.
Somebody’s feeling his oats big time.
Iran, Muslim brotherhood, china, mexican narco gangs, and now Argentina.
They have figured out that nobama’s priority is to destroy his internal political enemies and fundamentally weaken this country while ignoring external threats and events.
I am a huge Reagan fan, and I can tolerate Bush (one world view aside). I must point out some facts:
1983 - The US pulled out of Lebanon, after the Beruit Airport bombing
2005(?) - China refused to give back a P3 Orion that one of their pilots rammed, until they got all the info they could out of it.
It just happens that it is becoming more wide spread and the cool thing to do at the moment.