Sarevok wrote:How is this a good exchange Adrian ?
I wrote:It occurred to me later that with thinking like that, 1945 Hitler would have made me a Field Marshall.
Don't you know what Adolf Hitler was like in 1945? The guy was absolutely batshit insane, totally off the deep end. We're talking of a man who was commanding hundreds of divisions that where known to be largely imaginary to everyone but him.[/quote]
Adrian Laguna wrote:Muslim extremists did, after all, already used one country to stage an attack on the United States and where unfazed by the prospect of losing it to the subsequent American response.
They didn't think they'd lose it, though. They were anticipating a replay of the Soviet occupation, were an apparently powerful army is lured into a fight it isn't trained or prepared for and bleeds itself dry.
Of course, it didn't end up happening in Afghanistan. It did happen in Iraq.
I love the smell of September in the morning. Once we got off at Richmond, walked up to the 'G, and there was no game on. Not one footballer in sight. But that cut grass smell, spring rain...it smelt like victory.
Dynamic. When [Kuznetsov] decided he was going to make a difference, he did it...Like Ovechkin...then you find out - he's with Washington too? You're kidding. - Ron Wilson
Sarevok wrote:How is this a good exchange Adrian ?
I wrote:It occurred to me later that with thinking like that, 1945 Hitler would have made me a Field Marshall.
Don't you know what Adolf Hitler was like in 1945? The guy was absolutely batshit insane, totally off the deep end. We're talking of a man who was commanding hundreds of divisions that where known to be largely imaginary to everyone but him.
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The problem is getting everyone in a fractured society like Pakistan behind a nutcase's scheme to nuke USA. An islamist nutcase leader would presumably be civilian. Civilians presidents wield little power compare to the military. A Palpatine esque totalatarian purge would be required before a Pakistani leadership obtains such a total control over nukes that he can personaly nuke whomever he likes.
I have to tell you something everything I wrote above is a lie.
