Posted on 01/12/2005 6:31:56 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
Edited on 01/12/2005 8:26:44 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Yep. He's dead, Jim. :^)
Not according to 184
Yes, my bad. I jumped to conclusions after reading only the first post, and I didn't read it carefully enough, either. Mr. String straightened me out quickly enough on that. I recinded the remark later.
Hey!!
I just figured it out; He got the zot and I ratted him out!!
Man does that feel good!!!
Personally, I don't go anywhere unarmed!!! Why should our military? If they don't like our troops armed with weapons, let someone else feed them....they can send their people out to distribute food.. they care more about the issues than feeding and taking care of victims......goes to show where their real values are...it's truly sad.
re my @35.
Sorry, that sounded bad.
My point was, and is, that on and off base, outside of designated combat areas, most military members are not routinely armed.(MPs and certain security positions excepted)
They are not "police forces".
That they are unarmed in Indonesia does not surprise me.
That they are even there in the first place does.
I am more interesed in findng out what applicable "law" was used to order them there in the first place. Not that I think it was morally wrong(I don't) I just wonder at how things have changed regarding when and how USA military forces can be ordered to deploy and assist foreign nations in humanitarian efforts on this scale.
Someone with more recent experience and greater knowledge of current force deployment laws could probably answer that easily.
Yeah. I saw that post. :^)
:^D
Just curious....where are you getting these estimates on Myanmar?? My son-in-law has a sister there, and she indicates no deat from the tsunami. In fact, she said the waves stopped short of there ( the big ones, anyway).
We have dead and homeless in our country...
We have sent more than enough $$ over there. How about taking care of our own.
ABOLUTELY
210,000, its a pretty good start, just need to add a few 00000s to it.
Oddly, those are the exact words of my sister. I'm amazed by them.
Well, we are not selfish. We need to care for our own. No one else will.
True enough.
The U.S. relief operation has won praise for reaching villages devastated by the earthquake and tsunami, which washed out roads and destroyed bridges. But Elmquist said he couldn't be sure what supplies the helicopters were delivering."
Translation: The U.N. isn't able to get their cut of the aid supplies since our troops are getting them to the intended recipients too quickly.
Well...when pulling into port in a terrorist rich nation, they should have at least been given permission to put some shots across the bow as a warning and then smoke 'em if they continued. Our Coast Guard does this daily to suspected drug smugglers that do not heed radio and loudspeaker warnings to stop and be boarded.
During my active duty Navy days, I was able to carry loaded weapons regularly in the Bush years. In the Clinton years, I had to stand watch with an unloaded .45 and even during security alerts as a Reaction Force team member had to run around my ship with an unloaded 12 guage in one hand and a shell in the other. Imagine a U.S.warship full of qualified people treated like Barney Fife by the brass.
Nah, its about them and wasting tax money. If you want to show what a good person you are by sending your tax money to people who want you dead then I wouldnt take away your freedom to do that. However, I shouldnt be forced to be "the better man" by giving to people I consider terrorists. I want that money back.
Would you say that the reason they want us out so quickly is that the Indonesian government dosen't want the true image of the US is sink in ?
That prolonged contact with Americans helping them might spread our ideas of freedom and democracy, making them harder to "manage" once we have left ?
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