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  2. WWIII

    in The Rest of the World

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    If I'm in L.A. and there's a terrorist attack in new York, the direct effects will be negligible.

    If you live in a shell.....yes.

    But if you fly, deal with gov't staff.....Lets put it this way, there was an attack on the London transit system..transit systems everywhere felt it and adjusted to some degree their behavior.

    Britain and the Commonwealth and the United States played a minor role in beating the Nazis. That's a simple fact. Oh sure, they played a role but if Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union not come to blows, Europe would have languished firmly in the grip of one branmd of tyrranny or another. The western liberal democracies simply did not have the means of dislodiging Hitler.

    What they didn't have, was not the means but the place. Before the USSR was engaged, the axis was being fought in north africa. The problem that faced Churchill was where to attack (given that the logistic demands of a sea borne invasion would not be solved quickly) ....and so they attacked where ever they could. But most importantly they fought the Nazis....and defeated them (without the help of the USSR) on the oceans, and won the battle of the atlantic.

    as to the soviet union, had the commonwealth not won the battle of the atlantic there by making the resupply of the soviet union possible, the USSR may have fallen.

  3. Cut and run jack

    in Federal Politics in Canada

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    There's a world of difference between Iraq and Afghanistan. While neither are cake walks, the challenges in Iraq can make Afghanistan look like a cake walk.

    One startling difference is memory. People can remember how life was before the west came......in Iraq, they remember peace....in afghansitan, they remember war and they remember the Taliban.

    The violence in Afghanistan has plainly escalated. The forces probably have a few months to improve the security or risk the confidence of Afghanis and the Canadian people.

    If things look like they are going from bad to worse, it could set the stage for a Conservative defeat in the nect election.

    http://www.icasualties.org/oef/

    No question about it the violence has picked up. Personally I would like to see our committment keep up with the challenge. I think we need more troops there now as well as an air presence. Yhe question is, are the taliban picking up the tempo our of desparation or are they flexing their muscles due to new found strength?

  5. Cut and run jack

    in Federal Politics in Canada

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    There's a world of difference between Iraq and Afghanistan. While neither are cake walks, the challenges in Iraq can make Afghanistan look like a cake walk.

    One startling difference is memory. People can remember how life was before the west came......in Iraq, they remember peace....in afghansitan, they remember war and they remember the Taliban.

  6. Who Hates the USA?

    in Canada / United States Relations

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    The advent of the ICBM made the Arrow obsolete even before it was made. The relevant item here is that the arrow was an interceptor. It wasn't a bomber or a fighter. It's sole raison d'etre was going verry very fast in a straight line, fire nuclear anti aircraft missiles at soviet bomber formations and hopefully not incinerate itself. Once the ICBM appeared, the Arrow's mission ended. Had it been designed as a multi purpose platform, like the F-111 series.....they may have survived or at least been marketable.

  9. Israel's post-war reflections

    in The Rest of the World

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    http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-08-29-voa50.cfm

    People in Israel are baying for an inquiry into the government's handling of the war.

    I'm curious exactly what they are concerned about, since there are so many angles. Do they want to investigate:

    -senseless destruction of a neighboring state?

    -how they lost to Hezbollah on the ground?

    -how their opponents won the diplomatic side?

    -why after almost 40 years of military supremacy they have been unable to get peace?

    -what they think they are going to do next?

    Lots of important things for Israel to think about.

    Every army, even Canada's has a department called Lessons Learned. They should look at all aspects, even the baseless myths like Hezbollah won.

  10. Israel - The Most Hated Country Ever

    in The Rest of the World

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    Cross-posting? People are not allowed to post stuff somewhere else?

    Yes, cross-posting is against the rules of this forum. According to the rules:

    NO CROSS-POSTING

    Cross posting is defined as posting the same information in more then one forum on the Internet. It is also considered cross posting if you post the same information in different areas of these forums. If you want to propose a new topic, find the appropriate category and only post once. All cross-posts will be deleted without warning.

    We frown on cross-posting because we feel if you're going to participate in these forums, you should invest some time into what you're going to say. Reading from a script in a live debate would be ineffective and distracting, the same goes for online discussions.

    It also cuts down on the amount of political activists who spam multiple forums with identical messages.

    Well, I am a member of a few different forums and the topics are often the same. Are you saying that if I post something in Sensible election and I see it here, I shouldn't contribute to it here?

    That makes no sense at all.

  11. NDP- LAYTON "Invite Taliban to Peace Talks"

    in Federal Politics in Canada

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    Layton for some reason thinks that the Taliban would sit down to peace talks. No doubt Jack thinks the Taliban would put on the negotiation table their propensity to kill little girls who learn to read and suicide bombers.....

    What does Jack think the Taliban would want in return for giving up their tried and true tactics? Given that killing anyone who stands in thior way is how they gained poer in the first place?

    Poor Jack. Now the only reason to hope the NDP gets a vote is knowing that that particular vote won't be going to the other fringe left party called the Greens....

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