To: meatloaf
Note to the United Kingdom:
You don't got no Navy, you don't got no Falklands.
10 posted on
12/05/2011 3:11:28 PM PST by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: Enterprise
Her Majesty's navy maintains several warships on near permanent station in the Falklands environs and, while nothing fires American Anglophilia so much as the sailing of the fleet, the construction and maintenance of the RAF Mount Pleasant air base allows a lethal British response to Argentine misbehavior far more quickly than commandeering whatever Cunard has sailing near Southampton and sending it south.
To: Enterprise
There are people right here on Free Republic who don’t understand the necessity of Naval Power and want us to gut our navy. Just keep a few surface ships and submarines for good measure.
We had those people after Vietnam. After Korea. After WWII. After WWI.
But hey...things are “different” now. The only think not “different” now is that there are idiots who think this way.
24 posted on
12/05/2011 3:33:01 PM PST by
rlmorel
("A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill)
To: Enterprise
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