Please explain to me how the greatest army in all the world (at the time) lost it's most important colony to a bunch of farmers with pitchforks. TIA.
LOL . . . by the time the deciding battles rolled around there was virtually no difference between the "technology" either army had.
Let me know when Al CIAda has a Stealth Bomber dropping JDAM's from 35,000 feet, or has a carrier battle group, or is flying $220 million dollar fighter planes and has their own space based guidance, battlefield management and targeting systems.
Thanks for making it as clear as day that you're an academic warrior. You're probably too old to sign up, but it would do you some good to talk to some people that have actually been in a battle once or twice.
You float around all over the map . . . 10 minutes ago your a quasi liberal apologist, now your a hardcore "you've never been in battle" conservative. Tell me Captain Genius, in what part of any of my posts did I say this was easy??
But it's a simple question. Why can't a trillion dollar plus annual military and intelligence complex be called upon to keep these guys in check to the point where they can't do any real harm to the United States and its interests?? It's a simple answer, they can . . . but keeping them "in check" doesn't advance U.S. hegemony. This really has nothing to do with your Sarah Palin/tea party/conservative talk radio derived "You've never been in battle" obfuscatory B.S. Now just waiting on you to do your multiple personality disorder flip-flop again in your reply.
This is an impossibility even if every cent of every dollar in the U.S. went to defense.
That aside however, the fact you're still trying to trot out the OMG Obama's the worst's socialist dictator warmonger ever bullshit, shows how truly dumb you are in regards to military strategy. There's a centuries-old playbook for winning (relatively speaking) conflicts such as Afghanistan. The current buildup in Afghanistan is following that book in most regards except for the fact that Obama has set a deadline to reduce troop numbers BEFORE the 2012 election.
What's also incredibly funny is that Obama has to use this strategy to clean up the clusterfuck left by GWB and Co., who went adventuring in Iraq while leaving a token force in Afghanistan. Then everyone was surprised that things had gone to crap because they left 50,000 soldiers to do the job of at least 120,000. You want to talk about perpetual war, let's start with the guy who kept the war going on the back burner for the better part of a decade and compare him to the guy that has set a deadline to end major operations less than a year from now.
Stick to owning beems on athletic department arguments. You obviously understand what you're talking about in those matters. Until you either learn a little more about battle history, the structure of our armed forces or actually talk to people that know about these things, stop spouting off dumbshit talking points you thought up yourself.
BTW, I love that you have no idea of my political leaning. And you're guesses are just like the rest of this thread ... grasping at straws.
