[the_doc]

You are still missing the point. I was not being snotty, but I'm afraid that you are. (Evidently, you just don't like anyone pointing out that your negativism is unwarranted.)

Lurkers are invited to read our exchange. I honestly think you have a chip on your shoulder. You need to relax. Everything's going just fine.

[mattdono]

Well, I think that when you accused me right off the bat of not respecting the military, but, of course, you did, you should expect me to have a bit of a chip on my shoulder toward you.

I might also point out that while the military conducted the strike (which seemed to have been conducted with an incredible amount of timing), it is the intelligence that I was commenting on; that we actually hit the POS given the provided intel.

I think that you would concede that military intelligence and military action are two distinct events or functions. As such, there can be some Garbage In, Garbage Out. My negativism, as you call it, is perhaps based more in the hopes that our intel is good. Needless to say, we have had intelligence failures, somethhing which I am sure even you would agree with.

Why don't we call a FRUCE on the issue...after all, we are ultimately on the same side.