Off Topic: U.S. Intel: Iran Plans Nuclear Strike on U.S.

[Anonymous]

He was essentially given Austria (during the Anschluss) and Czechoslovakia (which had a strong, modern military and could have stopped Hitler in his tracks had he tried to invade).

He claimed Austria and occupied the Czech. He then invaded Poland with little resistance from the other countries. During the invasion of Poland, Germany could have been invaded and defeated since little was left to defend the country.

Anyways, I think we do agree on quite a bit. I just want a serious debate about whether or not to invade a country, not fashioned as “you’re either for us or against us” or “if you don’t support this war you’re a traitor”

[Akula1992]

Allen,

It would be interesting to sit down and have a beer some time with you. You do seem better versed on a lot of the subjects than most people I chat with.

Interestingly enough, I have a copy of the SWM sitting on my desk right now. I got it while a student at the USMC Command and Staff College. Although I find some of the pictures of the proper way to pack your mule amusing, most of the info is spot on and still applicable today. Some of it has been of use and used in the past few years.

I spent a few years in South and Central Am. but tended to be a bit further south in Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Peru and even Ecuador. I almost got an all expense paid trip to Honduras but never to Guat and I’m OK with that…

Hey, if your friend speaks Pashtun that is great but if he can speak Pashtu-Dharri that is even better. It is a royal pain finding someone to translate that stuff.

Be well.

Hey, what’s this thing I hear about a housing bubble anyway….

[Akula1992]

Allen,

It would be interesting to sit down and have a beer some time with you. You do seem better versed on a lot of the subjects than most people I chat with.

Interestingly enough, I have a copy of the SWM sitting on my desk right now. I got it while a student at the USMC Command and Staff College. Although I find some of the pictures of the proper way to pack your mule amusing, most of the info is spot on and still applicable today. Some of it has been of use and used in the past few years.

I spent a few years in South and Central Am. but tended to be a bit further south in Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Peru and even Ecuador. I almost got an all expense paid trip to Honduras but never to Guat and I’m OK with that…

Hey, if your friend speaks Pashtun that is great but if he can speak Pashtu-Dharri that is even better. It is a royal pain finding someone to translate that stuff.

Be well.

Hey, what’s this thing I hear about a housing bubble anyway….

[Akula1992]

Allen,

It would be interesting to sit down and have a beer some time with you. You do seem better versed on a lot of the subjects than most people I chat with.

Interestingly enough, I have a copy of the SWM sitting on my desk right now. I got it while a student at the USMC Command and Staff College. Although I find some of the pictures of the proper way to pack your mule amusing, most of the info is spot on and still applicable today. Some of it has been of use and used in the past few years.

I spent a few years in South and Central Am. but tended to be a bit further south in Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Peru and even Ecuador. I almost got an all expense paid trip to Honduras but never to Guat and I’m OK with that…

Hey, if your friend speaks Pashtun that is great but if he can speak Pashtu-Dharri that is even better. It is a royal pain finding someone to translate that stuff.

Be well.

Hey, what’s this thing I hear about a housing bubble anyway….

[Akula1992]

Allen,

It would be interesting to sit down and have a beer some time with you. You do seem better versed on a lot of the subjects than most people I chat with.

Interestingly enough, I have a copy of the SWM sitting on my desk right now. I got it while a student at the USMC Command and Staff College. Although I find some of the pictures of the proper way to pack your mule amusing, most of the info is spot on and still applicable today. Some of it has been of use and used in the past few years.

I spent a few years in South and Central Am. but tended to be a bit further south in Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Peru and even Ecuador. I almost got an all expense paid trip to Honduras but never to Guat and I’m OK with that…

Hey, if your friend speaks Pashtun that is great but if he can speak Pashtu-Dharri that is even better. It is a royal pain finding someone to translate that stuff.

Be well.

Hey, what’s this thing I hear about a housing bubble anyway….

[Akula1992]

Allen,

It would be interesting to sit down and have a beer some time with you. You do seem better versed on a lot of the subjects than most people I chat with.

Interestingly enough, I have a copy of the SWM sitting on my desk right now. I got it while a student at the USMC Command and Staff College. Although I find some of the pictures of the proper way to pack your mule amusing, most of the info is spot on and still applicable today. Some of it has been of use and used in the past few years.

I spent a few years in South and Central Am. but tended to be a bit further south in Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Peru and even Ecuador. I almost got an all expense paid trip to Honduras but never to Guat and I’m OK with that…

Hey, if your friend speaks Pashtun that is great but if he can speak Pashtu-Dharri that is even better. It is a royal pain finding someone to translate that stuff.

Be well.

Hey, what’s this thing I hear about a housing bubble anyway….

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Akula: Is it just me or are you named after a Russian attack sub?

The three books I keep around fairly regularly are my Ranger Handbook, the SWM and Thucydides. I love the part in the SWM about how to run an election. We did actually use that section and it worked. Having not used mules, I cannot comment on the efficacy of that section, but with all things Smedley Butler, I gotta believe that would work, too.

The Marines are considered definite black magic in that part of the world. I’d ask what you were doing down there, but then you’d probably have to kill me following. Opsec and all that.

As to the housing bubble: Not entirely sure, but I hear there is this entire blog devoted to it…

RLTW

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Akula: Is it just me or are you named after a Russian attack sub?

The three books I keep around fairly regularly are my Ranger Handbook, the SWM and Thucydides. I love the part in the SWM about how to run an election. We did actually use that section and it worked. Having not used mules, I cannot comment on the efficacy of that section, but with all things Smedley Butler, I gotta believe that would work, too.

The Marines are considered definite black magic in that part of the world. I’d ask what you were doing down there, but then you’d probably have to kill me following. Opsec and all that.

As to the housing bubble: Not entirely sure, but I hear there is this entire blog devoted to it…

RLTW

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Akula: Is it just me or are you named after a Russian attack sub?

The three books I keep around fairly regularly are my Ranger Handbook, the SWM and Thucydides. I love the part in the SWM about how to run an election. We did actually use that section and it worked. Having not used mules, I cannot comment on the efficacy of that section, but with all things Smedley Butler, I gotta believe that would work, too.

The Marines are considered definite black magic in that part of the world. I’d ask what you were doing down there, but then you’d probably have to kill me following. Opsec and all that.

As to the housing bubble: Not entirely sure, but I hear there is this entire blog devoted to it…

RLTW

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Akula: Is it just me or are you named after a Russian attack sub?

The three books I keep around fairly regularly are my Ranger Handbook, the SWM and Thucydides. I love the part in the SWM about how to run an election. We did actually use that section and it worked. Having not used mules, I cannot comment on the efficacy of that section, but with all things Smedley Butler, I gotta believe that would work, too.

The Marines are considered definite black magic in that part of the world. I’d ask what you were doing down there, but then you’d probably have to kill me following. Opsec and all that.

As to the housing bubble: Not entirely sure, but I hear there is this entire blog devoted to it…

RLTW

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Akula: Is it just me or are you named after a Russian attack sub?

The three books I keep around fairly regularly are my Ranger Handbook, the SWM and Thucydides. I love the part in the SWM about how to run an election. We did actually use that section and it worked. Having not used mules, I cannot comment on the efficacy of that section, but with all things Smedley Butler, I gotta believe that would work, too.

The Marines are considered definite black magic in that part of the world. I’d ask what you were doing down there, but then you’d probably have to kill me following. Opsec and all that.

As to the housing bubble: Not entirely sure, but I hear there is this entire blog devoted to it…

RLTW

[Allan from Fallbrook]

JordanT: Agreed. As I go to great pains to point out, I never voted for Dubya (either time). The Republican Party has essentially disintegrated and has been replaced with a morally and intellectually bankrupt facsimile. They try to look and sound like real conservatives, but come off as holier-than-thou hypocrites.

I don’t think we should invade Iran. I also don’t think we should do nothing, either. Somewhere between the two is a workable strategy for both engagement and containment. I’d love to see a popular revolution in that country, but I doubt strongly it will happen in the next few years. It will probably take between five and 10 years to occur and the strangehold that the hardliners have on that country is considerable.

I do see the parallels with Germany under Hitler being apropos, if for no other reason than Germany was educated, literate and (mostly) moderate. The same country that gave us Goethe, Schiller and Bach also gave us Auschwitz, Rotterdam and Leningrad. It isn’t the people of a country that scare me, it’s their leaders. And America is no different.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

JordanT: Agreed. As I go to great pains to point out, I never voted for Dubya (either time). The Republican Party has essentially disintegrated and has been replaced with a morally and intellectually bankrupt facsimile. They try to look and sound like real conservatives, but come off as holier-than-thou hypocrites.

I don’t think we should invade Iran. I also don’t think we should do nothing, either. Somewhere between the two is a workable strategy for both engagement and containment. I’d love to see a popular revolution in that country, but I doubt strongly it will happen in the next few years. It will probably take between five and 10 years to occur and the strangehold that the hardliners have on that country is considerable.

I do see the parallels with Germany under Hitler being apropos, if for no other reason than Germany was educated, literate and (mostly) moderate. The same country that gave us Goethe, Schiller and Bach also gave us Auschwitz, Rotterdam and Leningrad. It isn’t the people of a country that scare me, it’s their leaders. And America is no different.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

JordanT: Agreed. As I go to great pains to point out, I never voted for Dubya (either time). The Republican Party has essentially disintegrated and has been replaced with a morally and intellectually bankrupt facsimile. They try to look and sound like real conservatives, but come off as holier-than-thou hypocrites.

I don’t think we should invade Iran. I also don’t think we should do nothing, either. Somewhere between the two is a workable strategy for both engagement and containment. I’d love to see a popular revolution in that country, but I doubt strongly it will happen in the next few years. It will probably take between five and 10 years to occur and the strangehold that the hardliners have on that country is considerable.

I do see the parallels with Germany under Hitler being apropos, if for no other reason than Germany was educated, literate and (mostly) moderate. The same country that gave us Goethe, Schiller and Bach also gave us Auschwitz, Rotterdam and Leningrad. It isn’t the people of a country that scare me, it’s their leaders. And America is no different.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

JordanT: Agreed. As I go to great pains to point out, I never voted for Dubya (either time). The Republican Party has essentially disintegrated and has been replaced with a morally and intellectually bankrupt facsimile. They try to look and sound like real conservatives, but come off as holier-than-thou hypocrites.

I don’t think we should invade Iran. I also don’t think we should do nothing, either. Somewhere between the two is a workable strategy for both engagement and containment. I’d love to see a popular revolution in that country, but I doubt strongly it will happen in the next few years. It will probably take between five and 10 years to occur and the strangehold that the hardliners have on that country is considerable.

I do see the parallels with Germany under Hitler being apropos, if for no other reason than Germany was educated, literate and (mostly) moderate. The same country that gave us Goethe, Schiller and Bach also gave us Auschwitz, Rotterdam and Leningrad. It isn’t the people of a country that scare me, it’s their leaders. And America is no different.

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