Comments on: Speaking of swords into ploughshares

By: Idaho

Idaho — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:15:47 +0000

The importance of projecting power is lost sometimes on those here at home. But, this last week’s rescue of thousands of Americans by the the US Navy, reminded me how lucky they were that America had the resources within a couple day’s sail to get to them. We cannot afford to reduce our capabilities anymore.

By: Reese

Reese — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 04:09:31 +0000

Another thing, sir:

“Mom’s got a point” and your headline “Speaking of Swords into Ploughshares” imply a comparison between those rockets and other arsenal components to your previous post about aircraft carriers.

It’s clear to me this is an “apples and oranges” comparison as they say. One is offense for offense’s sake, the other is offense (and defense if needed) for defense’s sake. Mom’s point stands, but doesn’t apply to our military spending.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:56:35 +0000

The whole situation feels like a war-by-proxy, don’t it? US hardware vs Iranian hardware. . .

Hopefully this is not a sign of things to come.

By: CPT J

CPT J — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:25:41 +0000

If only the Lebanese and their western apologists/enablers for Hezbollah would heed Mom’s wisdom.

But they won’t. Not can’t –won’t.

Instead of learning from and accepting a neighbor who could lift them all into a prosperous future for the whole region, they only yearn to destroy it, and themselves at the same time. Everything else is just a squalid excuse for self-inflicted failure.

A culture that damns its own children for spite deserves neither respect, attention, nor deference to it’s twisted “sensibilities”.

/and if that’s “insensitive”, I don’t care…