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A question from someone just starting (now just into Crusade.) There's a mention of Chipan having balistic missile subs and long range bombers and that US defence are capable of defending against those subs and bomber. I was wondering how? Is this hunting them down before they launch defending, or M...

Hey buddy, if he had shown his hands and was in fact holding a grenade than that is his chance to drop it and kill some infidels. And if he already had the pin pulled, then shooting him wouldn't have helped. If he hadn't, the marines would have had time to get out. It isn't entirely safe but it's b...

If the guy has a gernade, or an explosive, it is not courage to not take action and have your whole fireteam and/or squad killed. The Marines were not in a free zone, not in a hospital, not in a happy fuzzy warm place, they were in a combat zone. He took action on a possible threat. Notice the othe...

Courage to NOT kill the guy? :roll: How about the tactical analitical ability to determine that he is NOT a threat, and there by not shooting him. The Marine already displayed his courage in being in a shitstorm war in a shithole city I'm sure he really doesn't want to be in. That to, but still, it...

Put yourself in this Marine's boots. He's been hearing about terrorist booby trapping bodies, playing dead only to set off a hand grenade, and wounded ones crying for a doctor only to shoot those trying to help them. Yesterday, your best buddy just got blown up from someone playing dead. Today, you...

That did happen in Afghanistan but then it was mostly a reminder to all why A-Q needs to die. Maybe so, however, considering that your reaction to this is that it proves those doing it to you need to die, what do you think the reaction of normal iraqi's will be to you doing it to their fellow arabs...

Hate to be an asshole, but they already done acts on that scale. Maybe so, but we've also killed a lot of civilians through air bombardment. The fact that we didn't mean to kill them is almost irrelvant here, Again, turning it around, if your wife or sister or brother or husband had gone out one fi...

Just let's turn this round a minute.

Let's say that film had been obtained of an Iraqi insurgent blowing away a wounded american marine playing dead.

I know the situations are not entirely the same, but people would be baying for the insurgents blood.

I was disapointed that Kerry lost, but cheer my self with the thought that if anyone can destroy the american empire, it's Dubya.

I doubt it since he's been ridiculed for pretty much his entire life. Always been told there was no way he could accomplish something, had his clothes, hair, eyelashes, and behavior mocked, been told even by one of his team-mates that no matter how hard he tries he'll never be good enough. Being mo...

The Hutton report was a whitewash, anyone with half a brain cell can see that and I doubt even the troglodytes in the public fell for it for a second. Why? From the parts of it I've read, it seemed to be quite accurate. The BBC were the ones far more at fault. Had they simply checked the story when...

on to doubt the inteligence it was given though? The BBC could have ended the whole thing right at the start, had they simply checked Gilligan's notes. And several bits of government intelligence could have been disproved by a simple google search. And in fact were once they were given to the IAEA....

There seems interesting parallel in these events. On one side, the BBC didn't check its facts, took too much on faith and thus caused damage to the reputations of some middle age men in government. On the other, the Government didn't check its facts, took to much on faith and thus took us into a war...

isn't the hieght of the lensmans power the bit were they mentally blast Eldoria out of existance?

Plus, while the fourth empire may be able to one hit on kill lensman ships, Lensman planet killers can probabbly manage the same feet.

Currald wrote:Hmmm... thirty years after the last book. If things ever get bad enough for the Patrol, I imagine that the Children would get personally involved. God help the Culture then...

To avoid god shock I'm going to keep the CoL and the sublime out of this.

A few nit-picky flavor things: I cannot imagine someone from Civilization commenting negatively in any way on someone's tobacco use. Tobacco is so universally accepted that it is considered rude to speak against any but the stinkiest cheap cigar. Considering their rather puritanical attitudes towar...

Seras had been born some twelve Chuckug years ago, about ten earth years, A translation from the meaning packed laungage of the Chuckug, her name meant roughly: Deceptive Killer Unit of Both God Slaves and Athiests of the Human Form Number 2143342343431. Seras’ form had been designed as a weapon. He...

Well, there's no reason that the two have to be mutally exculsive, and I most certainly will keep doing Lensman/culture

Nine Circles of Hell. The war started with a boom. The first one Terra ton Crust Buster warhead ripped apart the ground above the city’s top level, then the second punched through the gaping hole in the armour to detonate at the top of the city’s first level. Those unfortunate enough to be on that l...

No it hasn't. I reiterate: The Culture is not on a true war footing yet; mass-murdering their civilians would put them on a war footing, which means the GP is totally arse-fucked. Its spinning up. As you may have seen in the first bit of the battle, the lensman are willing to blow up orbitals. I kn...

Singular Quartet wrote:FBH, if you are reffering to the ship storage facility inside the rock, then you actually want "Pittance"

oops.... sorry.

Hunter group 489 area of opperations. Space flashed from cold to annilating heat as beams and missiles slashed across it. The 36 remaining super dreadnaughts of group 489 squared off against 1 Culture warship an ROU according to there ship recongnition guides. It appear that the ship was either of ...

Oh what a pity, I was hoping he'd stay long enough to doom the tories in the next election... not that they need much dooming.

Basically the tactical situation is this. The Galatic patrol can win if it can take out enough of the Culture's infrustructure (be it factory ships GSV or orbitals) to keep an advantage of numbers over the Culture. OTOH if the Culture can bring down the number advantage then there superior ships and...

No it hasn't. I reiterate: The Culture is not on a true war footing yet; mass-murdering their civilians would put them on a war footing, which means the GP is totally arse-fucked. Its spinning up. As you may have seen in the first bit of the battle, the lensman are willing to blow up orbitals.