At 18:39 8-2-02 -0500, Kevin Tarr wrote:
>Now throw another countries' tanks and people in the mix and the US forces
>might as well turn their electronic equipment off. Yes the tanks can
>identify friendly units when the battle starts, but what will the
>battlefield be like 10 minutes later? It is much safer, for everyone, if all
>the units have the same hardware.
Then why does the US not share the technology with us? After all, we are
your friends, your allies. We even made it official trough the North
Atlantic Treaty. If the US were to share their technology, we would be able
to join the fighting instead of just sending a few "token troops" who only
"get in the way".
Hmm. Maybe we should change the Treaty. Whenever a conflict arises and
European countries want to help, they will *not* send troops. They shall
only calculate the total cost if they would send troops, and then donate
that amount of money to the Pentagon. ("Don't send troops -- just send cash".)
>Money: Gautam says, right in the post, that the military budget increase
>this year is more than Italy's entire military budget. Please read the whole
>post. (I know you say country's entire *budget*, but that's the same thing).
No, with "entire budget" I mean the amount of money a government has
available to keep the country up and running. That includes (but is not
limited to) matters like Traffic, Public Health, Social Services and Defense.
>Now for Kuwait. Let's see....US declares war on Iraq, tells rest of the
>world: stay home, we'll take care of it. The opinion already is that the war
>was only over oil, you think our press would be better if we kicked Iraq out
>of Kuwait by ourselves?
>
>But seriously, you want to risk your navel vessels when we have the USS
>Greenville out there running into other ships? ;-)
It was not my decision to send those ships -- it was the Dutch government's
decision. And besides, why should we be worried about the USS Greenville
running into our own ships? Certainly with all that expensive and superior
technology, the US military are capable of distinguishing friends from foes?
Jeroen
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