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Obviously they weren't successes, but we kept our word when we said we would support our allies, for good or ill. You would have chosen to back out on promises that we'd made. If Europe saw us commit support, and then back out of Korea and Vietnam (both promises we made to those countries), do you think they would have trusted us to back up our commitments to NATO? It's coherency that we must have. If we make a promise, we have to keep it. You apparently would be fine committing support and then not providing it. I'm not arguing the correctness of the commitment, I'm arguing the integrity of our nation in keeping it's word. Our political leaders have certainly committed us in places we aught not be. But once committed we CANNOT turn back on our word.

All depends on where you live and what your work schedule is like. Cargo long-haul co-worker tried it and got bit. He got stuck out a spare week (gone three weeks in winter) and came back to dead car. I don't know what charge level he left it at though. It would seem that they don't do so well in harsh environs, but that's 100% hearsay. I'll say this: I haven't seen an EV in our long-term parking at SDF. I'm sure they're there, I just haven't seen one.

Because I study history. How about your line in 1948-9 as Korea was getting tee'd up. Or perhaps the early 1960's with Vietnam? Hell, what was your stance in the 1980's as were arming the Iraqi's AND Iranians? Bottom line in ALL these cases: When America makes an international promise and then doesn't back it up with action, we lose big when we have to clean up the mess later. We also lose allies. Key allies. It would be very nice if our leadership would THINK before making promises. Our history has proven that it costs far more lives to back out of a promise now and have to fix it later than it does to stick to our word and put our munitions and young men where our politicians' mouths led us. It's sucks, but it's true.

Trying to imagine what Bashi's line would have been in 1939

Must have been going for a Darwin Award

Seriously though, Mary Esther can be a rough neighborhood. Meth is a hellva drug.

Considering the Grand Power Stribog 45 ACP for a suppressed home defense gun. Anyone with experience, thoughts or feedback? https://grandpower.eu/products/product-categories/stribog-line/45acp-stribog-line/stribog-sp45/

standby for inputs from daddy Don

...but does he still check his Compuserve account?

In summary: Your skin color, gender, and sexual preference have no bearing on your performance...so long as you aren't white, male, or straight

Then go discuss it in the thread specifically intended for that discussion.

I see what you did there.

Fair enough.

who? @General Chang?

Did you actually watch the interview? You can watch Rogan thinking "WTF?!" several times. Fetterman spewed an endless illogical string of talking points and outright ignored both questions and facts that were presented to him. Forward to 1:30 and listen to him sputter for 10 minutes about the border without ever actually expressing an opinion. Rogan askes him no less than 5 times "what would you do about the border" and he never once actually assembles a coherent thought. That guy is supposed to be guiding the process of how our policy is formed.

Best place for it: Did anyone else catch to the Joe Rogan podcast with John Fetterman? That dude is a US Senator. It's baffling.

...she looks like she's under the weight limit...I'm expecting @Biff_T will chime in soon...

Wouldn't most of the ones that retired recently be focused on reflective belts?

My brain has two points of view on this: First and foremost, any leadership involved specifically in the Afghanistan withdrawal should be keelhauled, then fired, and exempted from any mil-industrial complex jobs. Second, the concept of subjective and politically based "purging general officer leaders" should induce shivers and revulsion from anyone who has studied history. This will be messy.

Please. I took my first rounds in a C-130 flying low level over Arkansas. That said, it's funny how bullet holes in three airplanes "fuel growing concerns" about being targeted. Who's writing these headlines? Air Force PAO?

How's about we develop and unmanned long range interceptor that self immolates on merging with the intercepted target? We could call it the AIM-174 or AIM-260... All joking aside, I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the use of space based assets in the future of air dominance.

yeah...that's EXACTLY how it'll get passed down

Wait...do you not?