Posted on 06/12/2014 1:32:54 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... John Kerry, the US secretary of state, continues the tradition of urgent-sounding vagueness about what the US plans to do:
"I know the president of the United States is prepared to make key decisions in short order. And as he made clear earlier, options are on the table right now, and at the appropriate time I'm sure you'll hear from the president."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Blah Blah Blah from the military stud.
Did you know Kerry was in Viet Nam?
I was thinking the same thing earlier today. An enormous amount of blood and treasure. For what?
Going in was not the mistake. Rebuilding them was (if we were going to allow a Shia government in).
Israel will decimate them...
and give them what they want with a trade ?
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Quick, do it now before congress finds out. /sarc
If Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Jordan don't beat them to the punch.
Israel will likely have to kill more than one in ten of them. (Decimate)
North or South?
Is this similar to what to place in Cambodia: weak Sihanouk, overrun by Vietnam, taken over internally by PolPot, followed by extremism and major human loss (Killing Fields}?
Can anyone remember or are our memories too short or just want to forget?
No, the big mistake was surrendering and fleeing...after we had already won and had made big strides in rebuilding. Thanks, Bambi, you jerk.
From Merriam-Webster:
dec·i·mate verb \ˈde-sə-ˌmāt\
: to destroy a large number of (plants, animals, people, etc.)
: to severely damage or destroy a large part of (something)
: to select by lot and kill every tenth man of
2: to exact a tax of 10 percent from
3
a : to reduce drastically especially in number
b : to cause great destruction or harm to
The poster used the word correctly whether they meant 1/10th, or if they meant an non-described 'large number,' or just mass destruction.
100 tomahawks with CBUs might slow them down a bit.
Beer summit !
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