Comments on: Tough call

By: Snake Eater

Snake Eater — Sun, 20 May 2007 18:20:08 +0000

Michelle, Many many thanks. Best.

By: FbL

FbL — Sat, 19 May 2007 19:52:23 +0000

Very educational comment thread, on many levels. Quite a place you’ve developed here, Lex…

I’m honored to be a hanger-on amidst this group.

By: Ens Andrew

Ens Andrew — Sat, 19 May 2007 14:01:06 +0000

Well that’s what I get for being flip. There isn’t much to add to what everyone’s already said, except that I would pay money to see anyone except the CO argue with a Master Chief.

Ens Tim, I agree with you that adding to the “body count” doesn’t necessarily win hearts and minds in a unified, homogeneous population like in Vietnam. However, I believe that we really have two wars going here, and an extremely heterogeneous population. The war against the Iraqis that don’t like what we’re doing where the hearts and minds thing applies (Baghdad and other cities), and the war against foreign irregular troops, where killing them is the best way to solve that particular problem (Anbar, Iranian border regions, etc.) Inviting lots of people we’d like to kill out into the middle of the desert has worked well for the USMC so far. Fallujah (the second time) seemed to end well. Just my opinion.

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Sat, 19 May 2007 07:39:51 +0000

Well, as I adumbrated above, this problem would not be near so bad if the Spencer Girl had done her plain duty which she was hired to do, and made more heirs before she got all silly and doodah-like.

By: AW1 Tim

AW1 Tim — Sat, 19 May 2007 00:59:50 +0000

er,

“pigs flying off the waist cat”…

Would that be a reference to the A3D?

Respects,

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 19 May 2007 00:51:26 +0000

Off topic, but, uhh…
Ensigns arguing with 30 year Master Chiefs? Yeah, when pigs are flying of the waist cat…