[Brad from Tennessee]

[That's nice, good luck with your thinking.]

It's a normal human tendency for people to ridicule things they don't understand.

[ansel12]

I'm not too proud to admit that I have no understanding of how your mind works, or doesn't, but it seems to make you happy and that seems to be enough for you.

"If this trap was planned over a period of days it might give Al Qaeda time to acquire a man-portable SAM to attack the Chinook. Instead of a “lucky shot” with an RPG the chopper might have been hit by something like a Russian 9K34 Strela-3 or even a Stinger from friends in Egypt or Saudi Arabia.
But the insurgents wouldn't necessarily need a “lucky shot” with an RPG if the path between the LZ and the Rangers took the Chinook through a pass. A group of insurgents, up in the pass with RPGs, could fire a volley of rockets horizontally as opposed to trying to fire a much more difficult shot, at a high angle, from a valley floor." "I'm not saying any of this happened but it could have.