Middle East

[ila]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Forget oil paranoia. I think the real problem is what happens if Saudi Arabia is taken over by uprisers who happen to be extreme muslim fundamentalists. All off a sudden a bunch of whacos have 85 F15 Strike Eagles.

Originally Posted by randolph

Its true, the F15 pilot requires lots of training. That's why we plan to train hundreds of Arabs at a base in Idaho. Let's see, it was Arabs that were involved in 911. Weren't we supposed to have a problem with training Arabs to fly airplanes?

Should Saudi Arabia be taken over by fundamentalists it does not automatically follow that all of the pilots would go over to the fundamentalist side. Nor does it follow that the fundamentalists would use the aircraft against any other country or its own citizens.

One must understand military and weapons sytems capabilities as well as countermeasures before stating such outrageous innuendos.

[randolph]

Ila

One must understand military and weapons sytems capabilities as well as countermeasures before stating such outrageous innuendos.

Sure they are outrageous innuendos. But what if someone, a year ago, said that the Fukashima nuclear plant would be destroyed by a mega tsunami?

[ila]

Originally Posted by randolph

Ila

Sure they are outrageous innuendos. But what if someone, a year ago, said that the Fukashima nuclear plant would be destroyed by a mega tsunami?

That's a false analogy.

[randolph]

Originally Posted by ila

That's a false analogy.

It's all about risk in the real world. Apparently, your conclusion was that the risk of the F15s being taken over by extremists was so remote that stating it was outrageous. Everything we do has risks and unforeseen risks do come to fruition. They are called Black Swans, the unexpected.

[ila]

Originally Posted by randolph

...Apparently, your conclusion was that the risk of the F15s being taken over by extremists was so remote that stating it was outrageous...

I stated no such thing. I did state that it is a wrong analogy to link a natural disaster to that of manmade actions.

[jdawg]

Apparently we are considering the option to arm the rebels in Libya. I hope Obama does this considering how well it worked for us in the 80's. We didn't have problems with the Afghan rebels or anything after the 80's.

[smc]

Yesterday's editorial cartoon in The Boston Globe ... all you need to know.

[randolph]

Originally Posted by ila

I stated no such thing. I did state that it is a wrong analogy to link a natural disaster to that of manmade actions.

Ila

One must understand military and weapons sytems capabilities as well as countermeasures before stating such outrageous innuendos.

This is what I was referring to.

[randolph]

PARIS (Reuters) ? French special forces have detained Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo and handed him to leaders of the rebel opposition, after French tanks forced their way into his residence, a Gbagbo adviser in France said.

"Gbagbo has been arrested by French special forces in his residence and has been handed over to the rebel leaders," adviser Toussaint Alain told Reuters.

Gee, sounds like we should have let the French take care of Gaddafi. We could have saved 500,000,000 dollars!