Why is it a “nonstarter” if we order, say, 100 more? There is no R&D and if the tooling and jigs are in storage, restarting manufacturing won’t be as expensive as starting it in the first place. Thus, I imagine 100 planes thus would have a per-unit cost similar to the per-unit cost of the original 187.

“Not only that, but the fact that the first shots of Desert Storm were fired by helicopters is a testament to rotory-wing air power and just how flexible it can be with the right vision.”

You don’t know what “genocide” means.

God bless you for that. I’m sure you’ve noticed it’s always “a million children.” Not 10,000, not 100,000, but “a million.” I heard the same thing in 2003 from the Muslims with whom I interacted: “If the U.S. invades Iraq, a million children will die.” It must be a Muslim colloquialism.

That's because they lack the means to invade. It's hard to rape someone when you have no dick.

The problem is not the court system so much as the people who might seek to exploit it. That is a cultural/societal problem, not a judicial one. People who seek to take advantage of the justice system are no different than people who cheat on their taxes and commit petty theft.

When a Muslim commits an act of terrorism, Obama and the Liberals tell us to condemn extremism, not Islam as a whole.

I am pretty sure you are trolling hardcore here, essentially doing a Donald Trump-style or Stephen Colbert exaggeration of the bleeding-heart liberal.

Agree both Iran and Arabs are problematic. Question is: What's the common denominator?

“What if I told you . . . that eventually every party comes to an end . . . .”

Saw this thing coming in from my office window (which overlooks the bay). They docked it by the carriers on North Island. I snapped some photos of the USS New Orleans heading back out to sea earlier this morning.

The only Expanded Universe stuff worth keeping intact is the Zahn trilogy and perhaps the anthologies. Everything else was entertaining but thematically unnecessary.

Dear God, not more “alcoholism is a disease” bullshit.

No. Turkey had the sense to know that Putin is a loud-mouth pussy who is all talk and no balls. They shot down a Russian jet, resulting in the death of two Russian soldiers, and the big bad Russia hasn’t done a damn thing about it. Turkey basically showed the world what those of us with good sense already knew: Russia…

I like where your head is at. Hell, we already know it can integrate with our existing carriers:

That is a good question that would turn many a Liberal mind into a fine red mist.

Why don’t we just (1) lay waste to Russian forces in Syria, (2) lay waste to Assad’s regime, and then (3) lay waste to ISIS?

Yup. Lots of dirty play by BYU athletes across multiple sports in recent years. At this point, it has to be institutional.

This couldn’t be more false. Delta is elite, no doubt, but general-circulation SEALs are not far behind, and SEAL Team 6/DEVGRU gives up absolutely nothing to Delta and, in fact, has a greater operational range insofar as they can be inserted or extracted through the water.

“so Israel can eventually expand”