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Originally posted by THE_PROFESSIONAL
reply to post by TrueAmerican
The US military is a Pu$$y. That is why they only fight third world countries. Why havent they attacked germany, russia, or china? Yes they are still developing countries, but still why havent any of those countries been attacked? Oh I know why...because we americans like to pick on little helpless countires and then we think we are all big and and brag to our other marine buddies at the bar about how some towel head got sniped..yea real brave...NOT
Originally posted by deltaboy
reply to post by THE_PROFESSIONAL
That be like saying the Russians or the Chinese are pussies when they attacked 3rd world countries. You think the U.S. is the only one? Please...
Originally posted by THE_PROFESSIONAL
reply to post by MikeboydUS
We didnt invade russia or china
Originally posted by ncb1397
Ron Pual is off his rocker on this one. No one is talking about invading and occupying Pakistan. It is a cheap tool to use some concocted scenario as a political tool. This is one of the worst cases of a strawman that I have seen.
A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.[1] To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.
Libya is not Iraq is not Afghanistan is not Pakistan.
Libya is not Iraq is not Afghanistan is not Pakistan.
Originally posted by radkrish
So you people think that the U.S cannot disable the nuclear toys of Pakistan?
Originally posted by MikeboydUS
reply to post by TheLieWeLive
Its not a matter of oil. There are many other things with value.
Besides if it turns out like Iraq, where China buys up the oil fields, or Afghanistan, where China bought up the mines, whats the point of resources.
If we go into Pakistan, it will be out of vengeance and anger. I imagine there are some people at the Pentagon whose blood is boiling and fuming over the ISI protecting Bin Laden.edit on 18/5/11 by MikeboydUS because: an
`1991 Gulf War'
Iraq was far from being a third world country, it had massive forces and at the time, in 1991, was the 4th largest standing military power in the world. Iraq had a massive arsenal of Russian made weapons ranging from the simple AK-47 to advanced Russian made surface to air missile systems (they actually shot down a few U.S. planes, but not much considering the amount of air strikes that took place). They had highly trained tank divisions which were called the "Republican Guard" and a standing army of just over 650,000. The Iraqi army was very well seasoned as they had been engaged in a long war with Iran, coupled with thier regular use of chemical weapons against Iranian targerts and on thier own people in Iraq, from a strategic standpoint, Iraq was a force to be recognized.