Re: More military might-have-beens . . . and nightmare scenarios

2005-03-06 Thread Standing Bear
On Friday 04 March 2005 17:07, Jed Rothwell wrote: oth sides had had them, it would have been a bloody trench war stalemate like World War I -- as indeed it became by the time Gatling guns were deployed in 1864 at Petersburg.) It is not out of the question that someone might develop cold

Re: More military might-have-beens . . . and nightmare scenarios

2005-03-06 Thread Grimer
... There are courageous people everywhere in this country. Look at the ones in the hi-jacked airplane headed for the White House on 11Sep01 that attacked the hijackers with the yell of 'lets roll', and stopped yet another catastrophe at the brutal cost of their own lives...

Re: More military might-have-beens . . .

2005-03-04 Thread Grimer
At 05:48 pm 04-03-05 -0500, Jed wrote: I wrote: (The CIA says that 95% of men under 40 in Saudi Arabia approve of Al Qaeda and consider Bin Laden a national hero, so I am sure they have unlimited funds at their disposal.) Correction: the government of Saudi Arabia says that, based on public