From: unsettled on
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> In article <7472a$45aba4b1$49ecfc6$17552(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>,
> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote:
>
>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In article <d8a21$45ab8ca9$4fe773b$16654(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>,
>>> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>In article <45AB78A2.85C71A50(a)hotmail.com>,
>>>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>So what do you expect from this 20K more troops? It isn't enough extra
>>>
>>>to
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>>>make a difference so it must be symbolic or political. Please explain
>>>
>>>how
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>>>they make anything better.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I don't know if 20K more will do the job. I do know that the key
>>>>>>>is to get the Iraqi middle class back and working.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Working where ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>C'mon, eeyore. It does not become you to pretend to be that
>>>>>stupid.
>>>>
>>>>He's not pretending.
>>>
>>>
>>>In this case, eeyore was trying be cute.
>>
>>Maternal instincts kicking in? LOL
>
>
> Every once in a while you get pathetic.

So I've come up in the world of BAH then?

Thanks.

> I'm learning from
> eeyore and what he says and what his unconscious assumptions
> are.

Nice if you're studying stupidity.
From: Ken Smith on
In article <eoin84$8qk_004(a)s961.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote:
[...]
>But it isn't Bush who is talking about atomic bombs in Iran.

The heck it isn't. Him and his staff have been saying it for some time.

> It
>is Iran who is doing this talk and they've even talked about
>first and second targets.

This is simply false. The worst they have said was something like Israel
should be wipped off the face off the earth. When pressed on the matter,
they moderated a bit. They suggested that they be given part of Germany
since it was Germany that caused the problem in the first place.


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From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> When Iran starts a war against some country
> in the West, where are you going to base your armies and air force?
> In England?

More problematic is likely to be Iran's problem about where to base *their*
forces.

LMAO !

Graham

From: Ken Smith on
In article <45ACE2D8.110218AA(a)hotmail.com>,
Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>
>> I guess another thing I need to think about is why people
>> cannot consider the notion that there is a civilization conflict.
>
>Try culture rather than civilisation.

It could be argued that there is more than one of them.


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From: unsettled on
Ken Smith wrote:

> In article <e3860$45acd0b4$4fe713a$26561(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>,
> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote:
>
>>Ken Smith wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In article <1ad2f$45aa7fb7$4fe76e9$22623(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>,
>>>unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Ken Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>[....]
>>>
>>>
>>>>>So what do you expect from this 20K more troops? It isn't enough extra to
>>>>>make a difference so it must be symbolic or political. Please explain how
>>>>>they make anything better.
>>>>
>>>>I've said before, disarm the population, seal the border, and we
>>>>can leave.
>>>
>>>
>>>Good plan, but with 20K more troops, there is no chance of doing so. With
>>>a few 100K perhaps it could be done.
>>
>>20K can easily seal the borders in fairly short order. Then it
>>becomes a combination of clearing the worse areas of weapons
>>and attrition of weapons because no new ones are getting in.
>
>
> I very seriously doubt that it could be done with 20K troops.

A contractor with 20K employees sealing a border could get it
done pretty quickly. Giving a relative 50% efficiency factor
for military troops doing the same work still provides us with
a 10,000 employee contractor sealing the border. That, my friend,
is a HUGE contractor by anyone's standards, and can get a lot
of work done post haste.

Besides, it isn't all about fences, it is more about land mines.

> In any
> case, your idea isn't going to be tried. Bush is telling them to paint on
> bullseyes and stand on street corners.

Mores the pity.