If you think my mindset has ever been “LOL we haz the missiles” you couldn’t be more wrong. Were there some poor decisions in the past? Yes, but hindsight is 20/20. Our strategic goals were completely different up until 1989.
Which sovereign state was attacked here?
“What has Iran done to us?”
It could be worse. The Mars Climate Orbiter slammed into the surface of Mars because Lockheed’s software used imperial units instead of metric.
Okay then dirtywiener, what’s your plan?
“Why bomb the people fighting ISIS then?” is the kind of question asked by someone who hasn’t thought it through or bothered to educate themselves on the regional strategic situation. From another of my responses:
Are you one of these people that thinks we invented ISIS?
Do you have any indications otherwise?
I read somewhere else that the AIM-9 has a shelf life so this wasn’t even a waste. Just good experience for the pilot and crew involved.
As I said elsewhere, this camp is on a strategic stretch of highway. The Iranians and their proxies want an unbroken Shia sphere of influence from Tehran to Baghdad to Damascus. So holding that ground is actually preventing Iran from gaining too much influence in the region (which would cause much more religious…
To run with that analogy, I think the US response was “WHOA DUDE! I’M NOT INTO THAT! BACK OFF!”
As I understand it, there was a bug in the Patriot missile software that had to do with converting fractions of a second to a decimal. What appeared as a very minor rounding error during testing wound up being a much larger error when the system sits active for a few months. But that’s all been resolved now and the…
I’m not trying to be glib. I just don’t understand why the hell these guys continue to try to advance on our special forces camp at At Tanf. Respect the deconfliction zone and you won’t get shot.
Message to this pro-Assad militia:
I don’t think anyone is really that worried about North Korean anti-ship missiles. As the recent events in Yemen have demonstrated, US warships are quite capable of defending themselves from a limited number of missiles.
It’s kind of amazing he’s been at it this long with all of his health problems. Many of which are related to the beatings and torture he went through as a POW. Making fun of people’s disabilities or debilitating illnesses is not okay, no matter what party they belong to.
When I was in middle school, just the anxiety of getting an erection at an inappropriate time would give me a boner.