Nothing new under the sun, eh Mandrake?
Posted on 06/17/2008 12:23:37 PM PDT by steel_resolve
Just because the U.S. military now lacks what defense eggheads call a peer competitor — a country capable of beating us in a head-to-head confrontation — that doesn't mean it lacks for imagination in conjuring fearful foes. Sure, it was easier for John F. Kennedy to blow smoke about a non-existent "missile gap" with the Soviet Union, or for Ronald Reagan to convince us of the need for a "Star Wars" missile shield when Moscow was still our superpower rival (it may no longer be, but we're still spending $10 billion annually on missile defenses).
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The scientists also warn that U.S. troops could be weakened by taking diet supplementals obtained from local shops in faraway lands (a 2003 report found 90% of special forces troops and 76% of support troops take such nutrients, including energy boosters, vitamins and protein powders). "Such markets could serve as a method of intentionally poisoning U.S. personnel," the report warns, helpfully suggesting the use of lead salts mixed in with nutritional supplements. "Lead poisoning has a slow onset of symptoms that are easily misdiagnosed in the early stages," it adds. "These symptoms include fatigue, irritability, and difficulty in concentration." That sounds familiar. Based on reports from U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, nefarious enemies may already be at work.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
they should look up some kill-ratio stats. If our troops are stupid, irritable, and can’t concentrate and yet we still do as well as we do, what does that say about who we fight?
Another crappy snark from Time...they are pukes and one day they will be wailing and gnashing their teeth about the missle that got through that “Reagan’s Wasted” Missle Shield and destroyed one of the Blue Craphole cities.
I think we should replace the M16/M4 with the Magpup Masada or the AA-12 and give our soldiers flechette rounds.
That last line gave me a double-take. Surely the author wouldn’t sneak in something so juvenile and snotty?
Lead poisoning is also easily detected. These tests are usually for kids, but all it takes is one doc to run a test on an adult.
It seems that Time must now resort to flights of total fantasy in order to report bad news on the WOT.
Nothing new under the sun, eh Mandrake?
That sounds more like an Upper East-Side Liberal than anything.
But Green Berets are trained to eat things that would make a Billy Goat puke!
The left doesn’t like the military.
They can’t build anything except simple bombs to blow up recruiting centers.
Well, I take any neuropharmacological claims with a 21/2 lb bag of salt.
So far in anecdotal accounts I’ve read, all pharmacological attempts at “dutch courage,” from booze to meth, have merely made for enemy fighters who, while fearless, are also hilariously stupid and easy to kill.
The only time they like “Joe” is when they can use him in a political maneuver as a pawn, not much unlike what Lenin referrers to as a useful idiot. When soldiers can be made out as victims, then they like him and will champion him. You see this with their false concen for the casualties. Do you "really" think people like Michael Moore cares about dead soldiers? You see it pouncing on real or mostly imaginary issues like PTSD, or Gulf War syndrome years past. But never will you see a liberal really stand behind the troops, not where it matters. Because they really don't like him nor what he does or stands for. They hate everything about him; his past, present, and future. What the uniform represents, the lifestyle and culture of the organization, and the type of people that choose to live like this. They don't like to spend money on him and would rather reallocate these resources towards more important things like strengthening affirmative action plans, more free health care for illegals, or whatever else.
Occasionally the interests (Liberals have no principals or morals) of the liberal coincide with the soldier. For example, it might be beneficial to advocate a broadening of VA benefits and funding because after all this captures at least some of the votes that typically go Republican, it expands social services that tie into other aspects, and most importantly it like their schadenfreude for the dead, draws attention to the damage and casualties of war, real or imaginary and while blaming the incumbent administration shows action on their behalf to fix the problems. So yes, you'll see a lot of Democrats jump on the PTSD bandwagon, because it's in their political interest to do so. So occasionally you will see a strange sort of alliance between some liberals and those in uniform, but not because they really like or respect us.
“A newly uncovered report suggests that foreign powers could someday create a supersoldier, perhaps like Dolph Lundgren in Universal Soldier.”
I stopped reading TIME about 20 years ago. Is this typical of their reporting now? It is like a Simpsons episode - imagine if giant sea-creatures attacked Springfield, this is what they would look like....
One of the late Mr. Seller’s best movies.
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