Your make any goofy historical comparison you want but that fact is, appeasement never works and only emboldens foes. In this case it's a foe that's happily supporting terror and proxy armies against several countries.

Attempts at improving relations with Iran and Cuba are both thinly-veiled attempts at Obama trying to create a legacy for himself, while in reality, the attempts with govts that are run by ideologically opposed zealots is doomed to failure. Neville Chamberlain lives.

Everything worth protecting is already locked (ECU code can't be read out without knowing an unlock key or hack. Then the ECU bootloader won't load any program that's not RSA-signed.

The best thing about carriers is their intimidation factor. They are enormous with the sole purpose of making war and it makes the other guy think twice about what he's doing after one shows up.

Meh. Large SAM installations like this, in small numbers, can be worked around and, more importantly I think Israel knows that aerial bombardment isn't going to do much but set the Iranians back a few months to year in some areas at best.

Lexus management has to decide if they want to compete at the Germans on their level or just pretend (what they're doing now). So far mgmt seems to have only one goal- make sure they stay #1 for Quality above all other brands. Adding a real M4 beater to that seems to contradict that goal it seems but if anyone can…

Nice coverage of the Backfires moving into the area. IMO it doesn't really mean much other than "I raise your show of force my show of force". Those bombers could have attacked anything in the black sea from anywhere in Russia with aerial refueling. So it's more a matter of showing them off than really using them.

Good comments Tyler. Money talks and unfortunately what gets funded and built isn't necessarily what's best for the country.

Sorry to hear people paid with their lives for some entertainment.

Only some weapons systems have actual acquisition costs that incorporate their R&D into them. The majority of them do not AFAIK. It's only people that want to disparage the projects (often just because of groupthink) that go out and find the whole project cost and add it up and divide by the number of…

Honda Asimo plush toy BTW.

Having owned two BMW 335s and now driving at 2014 S5, I can say that I would never buy an ATS-V.

People usually drive what they can afford and if you're not a car person or are thrifty, purchasing and holding a car until it's old and ratty is acceptable. If you're a car person and can afford a regular, modest monthly payment, then leasing is often better as this type will swap cars more frequently.