This whole conversation is getting realllllllly old.

“I didn’t argue there was a parallel to it and no my initial comment didn’t. Not even inadvertently. There are no words to even close to that effect.”

Fair enough. I see people routinely try to paint Patton as a bad general. On par with someone like MacArthur that had his ups and downs.

The military is another government bureaucracy yes. That being said, we don’t have a parallel to the IRGC. Not anywhere close. The IRGC is the bureaucracy of theocracy. It would be like if the US had one prominent church and they had their own military that didn’t answer to the US government, but militarily, was on…

Go away. We’re all well aware of what happened. Nobody is condemning the Iranians here. Just commenting on the news.

Equally tired of this.

Wow really?

And you using Patton is equally dumb. Say what you want about his morality but his tactics were sound. He made breakthroughs at places, and on a timeline, where other commanders had repeatedly failed.

People are taking issue because you’re equating the IRRGC with the average shit show bureaucracy. They aren’t remotely equitable.

There’s loopholes. We can use military folks if the threat is X amount and they have X amount of domestic law enforcement assisting/leading. Not exactly sure how it works though. Basically though, it’s open ended. The law says the president can authorize the military to restore in natural disasters, extreme public…

I didn’t mean that. Those helo’s and Mistral’s will be staying in Egypt for some time. The Russian’s already had technicians strip some important gear from the Mistrals. They aren’t planning on getting them.

They also sold four dozen naval KA-52s to Egypt. Which will equip the two Mistral’s that were supposed to go to Russia. Interesting.

My background and some photos have been all over this site for a few years now.

Enjoy being a poser.

You should know that I don’t approve of the way the NSW has handled their own publicity. I’ve made that very clear here a number of times. In fact I disapprove greatly.

Yawn. Are you gonna continue to write three of four long winded response to every request that you simply shut the fuck up. I don’t give two shits what your views are. Its obvious your a fucking idiot (5.7% unemployment?!). If you’d been here for more than five minutes you’d understand that I’m more than happy to…

You must be new here. Again, shut the fuck up.

No ‘additional’ tax payer money is the key term here. As with everything to do with the military, they have a budget. How they divvy that money up is up to them. Just like B-2 stadium fly-overs, these guys would be flying anyways. It costs no more to write stuff like this into their training mission.

You’re willfully blind.

Again, more attention to the time line and real sequence of events. Robert O’ Neill didn’t surface till MONTHS later and only because he didn’t approve of the official WH reports.