[Ahban]

Bump for the Swiss.

[mlocher]

if under invasion, the swiss can always head to the alps and hide in the caves, moving about from cave to cave on their swiss railroads -- the world's best. nobody could possibly defeat a nation that has these conditions going for them....

[Doctor Doom]

They make good cheese, too.

[LibKill]

The Swiss know that freedom ain't free and that There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

TANSTAAFL!

[Batrachian]

Hitler's bankers, and probably Osama Bin Laden's, too. I, for one, won't be joining their admiration society.

[Arleigh]

Swiss voters resoundingly defeated a proposal to abolish its citizen-based armed forces.

Thanks for a little ray of sanity in a rapidly deteriorating world.

How many hoops does one have to jump through to become a Swiss citizen??? Or can I just pay a coyote to sneak me in and then live off Swiss welfare for the rest of my life?

[pcl]

The Swiss Army is a joke. They may have a lot of soldiers available for call up but they are not an effective fighting force. One major issue is that Swiss French think the army is silly and a waste of time. The biggest support for the army comes from the Swiss Germans, especially from the bankers.

I read a book several years ago by an author who went out on field exercises with the Swiss Army. It was like Chinese Fire Drill. For example, the Swiss French were spotting for some Swiss German Artillery. The Swiss French refused to communicate in German and the Swiss German refused to communicate in French. The Swiss French scout teams would wander up the mountain a bit, find a nice little hill side cafe, order wine and proceed to give fake patrol reports for the duration.

I have spent quite a bit of time is CH and have quite a few Swiss friends. The stories they tell about their Army experiences make it very clear the Swiss Army is a joke.

The most they could hope for in a war is to blow up the transportation bridges and tunnels that they have constantly mined. Without its transportation bridges and tunnels, Switzerland is of little value to rest of Europe.

[Born on the Storm King]

I've read that after you finish your service in the Swiss Army, you take your Army-issued weapon home with you.

[RichInOC]

BEHOLD THE POWER OF CHEESE.

[Caipirabob]

The Swiss have always been suspect in my eyes over their inhuman treatment and merciless slaughter by machine gun fire of innocent cheese.