And that is your ego will not allow you to admit you offered up a wrong statement and are unable, or unwilling, to admit that...
Your adding chaft to the wheat will not make eatable bread!
My opinion of you has fallen drastically...
I am not above making a mistake and God knows I have made a bunch of them in my 60 years. Yet I have never felt I was above my peers here on FR when I misspoke or misstated something.
You have placed yourself on a plain above us mere mortals here on FR, and that I find contemptible in someone I agreed with in the past.
Refuting an argument with facts not then in play is the action one would expect from someone like Hugo Chavez!
I hate to lose my respect for one I once considered a knowledgeable colleague, but I can let loose of you without remorse...
My late Father told me to never suffer fools.
So, take care, Jeff. You are a God and prove it each and every day the FR masses get down on their knees to worship your each, every work and pray for your guidance and forgiveness!
I, sir, shall stand on my unbending knees and will not darken your door evermore!
This is not one of those times. I have tried to remain respectful and understanding in the face of some fairly derisive comments rgearding this, which apparently will continue. If in your estimation I have failed to do show respect or good decorum, I apologize.
I am also sorry you feel the way you do. It has not been my intent to mislead, to add chaff, or to otherwise create a wrong impression...and yet I apparently have failed in that, for the which I again am sorry.
But the facts are, as I have indicated from the start, that the SU-30s that Chavez has bought pose a serious threat to the UK task force and that that task force would be in there range and require US help. The Venezuelans have had refueling capability for something like 40 years I believe, and one of the major selling points of the SU30s they bought (among others, including anti-shipping missile capability) is its inflight refueling capability which gives it the range to pose the threat.
I am sorry you feel the way you do about my intent and my character...but your feelings thereof, though something I had not sought or intended, and though something I sincerely regret, can be just as mistaken as you claim I am.
Others will have to judge for themselves.
Bender2 — I don’t know why you have turned so hostile and abusive toward Jeff, and I don’t see where you have addressed the issue of refueling aircraft once or twice (or more) which can double range, and thus extend Venezuela’s potential interdiction capability completely across the Atlantic. Granted, effective combat radius can be reduced by a number of factors such as amount of armaments carried and loiter time burning fuel, and an aerial refueling effort across the Atlantic would have some serious logistical challenges and potential vulnerabilities to UK counter-action, but why do you not even consider the fact that Venezuela is clearly preparing such a refueling and extended range capability?