Posted on 06/26/2002 11:06:34 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:54:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
There aren't many of our challenges in the war on terror that can be solved quickly or easily. But there are some that can be solved with technology, and that's where the solutions can come quickly, if not always easily. American scientists and engineers are never short of ideas. During peacetime, we take months or years to sort them out. In war, we can and must move faster. During World War II, the desperate need for a long-range fighter resulted
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On the evening of December 7, 1941 an attorney in Michigan received a telephone call from the White House, asking, could he come to Washington, DC and immediately "get his arms around this," so to speak.
He went; arriving the next day; issuing contracts within 24 hours.
He was a long time friend of my father.
The gentleman is still alive; approaching 100 years old.
Was the answer to a riddle; the rest of it, y'all will have to figure out.
Well... not exactly. Somebody's not doing their homework.
The Russians deployed a thermobaric RPG in Afghanistan, referred to by the Afghanis with the colorful (and descriptive) sobriquet "Satan Stick". It was developed precisely for the purpose of roasting Mohammed Abdul-Aziz al-Kaboom to a well-burnt crisp right there in his Islamic rathole. I thought it would have been a touching gesture of apology for our mistaken condemnation of the Russians' war against Islam, for Bush to have asked Putin to sell us all of his remaining stocks of the item.
But, then, the American item is undoubtedly vastly superior to the Russian... so...
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