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Comment: Re:Fragile? (Score 2) 417

by Gryle (#37367192) Attached to: North Korea Forced US Reconnaissance Plane To Land
This left me scratching my head, actually. After Korea, what conflicts were those where U.S. forces have came into open confrontation with Soviet-doctrine troops? Vietnam was, arguably, closer to a "counterinsurgency campaign", really. Do you mean Iraq? these guys were so outclassed hardware it's not even funny, so I don't think it's a meaningful comparison.

I believe the OP is referring to the wars-by-proxy of the Cold War era, where the Soviets would arm one side, the US would arm the other. The Yom Kippur War comes to mind.

Comment: Re:You know... that might not be a bad idea... (Score 1) 277

by Gryle (#36655586) Attached to: America: Like It Or Unfriend It
Not unreasonable, but still wrong. The Spanish-American war was between the US and Spain, mainly over stuff occurring in the Caribbean and the Philippines. The Battle of the Alamo was fought when the Texians (name given to the predominantly Anglo rebels) revolted against the Mexican government. If anything, the Alamo is aligned with the Mexican-American war. One of the causes was the US annexation of Texas since Mexico still considered Texas as part of its territory in spite of the Treaty of Velasco nine years earlier.

Wikipedia gives a fairly even-handed treatment of the Spanish-American War, the Mexican-American War, and the Texas War of Independence, which given the massive amount of contention and conspiracy theories running around in academic circles on those subject is tricky to do.

Comment: Re:does it worry anyone else (Score 1, Offtopic) 134

by Gryle (#36595598) Attached to: Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Labs
I don't work at Los Alamos, but I do work with sensitive government items, and it's bit more than that actually. Government accountability of sensitive* stuff like this isn't a one-and-done. Inventories of sensitive items are done at regular intervals to make sure that what we said was there last week is actually still here this week. If it ain't, we backtrack to find out where the heck it went off to and whose soul to obliterate for not keep track of their stuff.

*Stuff the US government doesn't want falling into the hands of anyone other than the US government

Comment: Re:Why doesn't the president just take it to Congr (Score 1, Insightful) 892

by Gryle (#36488174) Attached to: Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile'
Yes, actually. Many of the new Republicans that got elected in 2010 feel Afghanistan and Iraq are the limits of what we can do and that the US is spending too much blood and treasure on foreign matters when we can't get our own house in order. I'm willing to bet they could get a non-negligible number of Democrats to agree with them.

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