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APA also against it.

Well put, quoted for truth. There are good and bad individuals within every group, and I'll note Huggy is a good one. That said, has there been a generation more greedy or who wrecked things more for their kids than boomers? The phenomenon seems unique to the US by the way, Latin America is full of older generations working to leave things better for their kids. I get it older CAs, you want an extra million bucks before retirement regardless of the impact on others and it makes you feel better to pretend we're all as shallow. Whatever. But don't expect me to endorse it or support it.

I used to think this way too but have changed my mind in the last few years. You are right about Ivy League OSD staff being idiots directly responsible for failed policies (how many of those weaklings have ever been in a fight?) but I also blame senior military leaders. Many of them are good people with good hearts, but there is a culture of overly compliant subservience which is unhealthy. They order people to take physical risks, yet they themselves are 0% willing to take moral, administrative or ethical risks on behalf of those people exposed to harm; that is unacceptable. Think about when our nation used to win wars and the generals who led us to victories: Billy Mitchell, Patton, MacArthur... do we have 4 stars today capable of leading boldly and accepting the consequences, their own career be damned? No. I have also seen a handful of general officers try to do the right thing or push forward mildly aggressive COAs. However, all of them pivoted at the first sign of resistance for fear of their own progression. The military still attracts hard-core pipe hitting young people, and God bless them. Unfortunately all of our senior military leadership has proven incapable of winning wars, and yes, I blame them for that failure.

It's not a careful dance, it's limp dick garbage. I want maximum carnage as our response to the Tower 22 attack, instead they are telegraphing the strikes a week beforehand and blowing up empty warehouses while all Iranians forward deployed get a couple weeks off at home. WTF. No surprises though, the same genius generals who have lost for 20 years are in charge of this retaliatory strike. Of course it's going to be weak bullshit. Bottom line: our enemies don't fear us and so we lose and continue to lose. I've been hoping to kill Iranians since this attack during my third deployment. Fuck Iran, they are a paper tiger and we need to show teeth. All of our supposedly experienced colonels and generals advocate a measured response but we need our boot on their throat or we need to get the fuck out of that AO. Play to win or go home.

You aren't wrong, but I have a particular disdain for Austin due to his decisively harmful meddling in this incident; I was in a position to see up close what a craven political creature he is. Sentiments that have amplified since he became SECDEF and sold us out during the fall of Kabul, where I also witnessed his (and others) deliberate injects which emboldened enemies and hurt friendlies. Regarding the current thing and authorities at his level: there have been many proactive opportunities which he's declined. We need accountability.

Agreed, infuriating. My guess is another “proportional and measured” response, although with a bit more teeth, but well short of what is required for our enemies to fear us. The SECEEF should resign in disgrace, this outcome has been obviously inevitable.

Thank you for posting both articles. This gets at the heart of our nations inability to resolve our conflicts by discussion anymore. For those not clicking on his first link, it’s a Penn State law opinion piece that basically says ‘no, sanctuary city policies do not violate federal law because they only stop local governments from helping federal immigration authorities.’ The article ignores multiple incentives by sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants that entice them to break the law and ignores countervailing legal opinions that sanctuary cities are in fact, violating the law by aiding and abetting lawbreakers. That in itself is a crime. The article also ignores the crime of conspiracy between NGO’s directly assisting illegal immigrants and sanctuary cities who directly assist those NGOs. but whatever, I’m uninterested in a tit for tat on the articles or even the legal issue. I appreciate it for a broader reason: it illuminates a phenomenon that has poisoned domestic politics, namely, no matter how threatened and assaulted people feel a democratic lawyer will tell you “actually, as a legal expert, you have to just shut up and take it and you aren’t qualified to have a different opinion.” Don’t want your car destroyed when you accidentally drive upon a BLM protest? Too bad, you have to take it. Find yourself getting chased by a mob trying to bludgeon you? Can’t shoot them, sorry, you shouldn’t have been there. Democrats always have a legal justification for the injustice you must endure, and that makes conversation impossible because they just want us all to follow the law… which, of course is whatever they say it is. By their actions they have invited lawlessness into our national conversation, which works both ways. They don’t like it, but that’s too bad, prepare for more.

I’ve been to Denver lately too; the border is an order of magnitude more chaotic. People in Democratic cities see only a fraction of the immigration problem and even that seems substantial; the border is where the entirety of the problem manifests. Perhaps if you saw it you would grasp the magnitude of the crime Biden is willfully committing. And anyway, precedent already exists for states to ignore parts of the constitution they don’t like: democrats initiated this “sanctuary city” thing which flat out ignores federal law. You can’t have it both ways, we either obey the law or we don’t. Currently in America, we don’t. This is what it looks like; prepare for more.

Have you been to the border recently? It’s unbelievable and obviously an invasion which must be stopped. You can’t see it and think the Biden administration has any legitimacy in their policy positions. It is a physical threat to residents.

Good comments, thanks for the thoughts. I disagree a bit: I don't think Nikki can beat Biden. Her numbers are artificially high because of democrat voters. Too many "NeverNikki" folks in the R party; even Ronna McDaniel has advised her to drop out. Also, I don't think they'll let Biden debate. He's too retarded. But I'm happy to bet a bottle of bourbon on my prediction!

You just found the problem with our whole thing. How do we fix it?

Agree, aside from a few speciality assignments an O-6 command at UPT would be awesome. Unless you're a political creature unable to leverage that assignment into someone's front office in NCR. But for a pilot, it's one of the best gigs for an O6.

Totally agree. I never WX cancelled for WX at mins. An approach to minimums is something aviators should be comfortable with, and you certainly don’t want your first time to be when it matters versus a training sortie. Now below mins is a different story, I’m not going to divert and buy a new toothbrush…

Fauci admits 6' social distancing rule was completely made up, no scientific basis.

A real OPSEC warrior wouldn’t even tell Russia we had bombers.

That's me after about half the threads I roll into 😂 and I'm usually right!

Yea, that's not an AFSOC thing.

I don't understand what these words mean.

Wow. Fuck yea.

I went to your link (which covered far more than 2015-2017, it was an exhaustive archive) and here is some of the hard hitting evidence provided that Trump is a Russian stooge and the pee tape might be real. This kind of stuff might be damming proof that Trump is a pro-Putin traitor to you, but I do not draw the same conclusions. Do you have anything post-Ukraine invasion, since that was the context of this discussion?

I didn't make an argument, I made an observation. Your entire post apparently was written on a presumption of what I said, versus the words I actually said. if you're going to defend USAFA based on the critical thinking it produces in graduates, I recommend using said critical thinking during dialogue; less irony that way. Or continue providing an emotional reply to things I didn't say, it's certainly amusing.

I was surprised the WG/CC wasn't fired in addition to the OG.

During the course of my military career, I saw zero evidence the academies are necessary or beneficial in any way. The same cannot be said for UPT.