People around here don't want to comment, because if they allowed themselves to believe it for even one instant, it would scare them sh*t-less.
$250 million, and the powers-that-be (those idiots in uniform still left from the Clinton era, who are more political knee-padders than soldiers) refuse to learn from it. Any outrage out there? Hello? Is this thing on?
Oh, yeah, I just can't wait to send my kid into the military.
That truly is the scary part. You invest resources in such gaming to gain insight into what might happen. Careers do not hang in the balance of the outcome but human lives do hang in the balance. Piper didn't do anything outrgeous from my point of view. There is a certain plausibility in his strategy.