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While we all look to last night's speech on Afghanistan, a typhoon is brewing in the South China Sea after a major Chinese official made overt threats against the United States. I brought back RunningLocal for a day to look at the issue in some depth.
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"There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed. I say this in order to impress upon you, if you are not already so impressed, that no small matter should divert us from our great purpose. "
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That looks suspiciously like a spam link. I'm not clicking.I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time--and this includes naps --I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. -
Lol..."There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed. I say this in order to impress upon you, if you are not already so impressed, that no small matter should divert us from our great purpose. "
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I remember this story.... it was called completely impossible or something like that when Dale Brown wrote it in 1994
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As long as Eric Harry's Arc Light doesn't bear out, we're good
It is funny how many of those 80/90's war thrillers are starting to bear out, albeit generally 10-15 years after the author's envisioned the events taking place."There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed. I say this in order to impress upon you, if you are not already so impressed, that no small matter should divert us from our great purpose. "
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hey, if we end up in a naval conflict with China, why don't we just declare any debt they hold of ours "null and void" under some special double top secret war powers act....
I don't know what the Vietnamese navy is like, but the last time China decided to tussle with Vietnam, they got their asses kicked...."You know what's wrong with America? If I lovingly tongue a woman's nipple in a movie, it gets an "NC-17" rating, if I chop it off with a machete, it's an "R". That's what's wrong with America, man...."--Dennis Hopper
"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real." -- Klaus KinskiComment
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Vietnam could get in a couple of good licks before they got overwhelmed."There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed. I say this in order to impress upon you, if you are not already so impressed, that no small matter should divert us from our great purpose. "
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I had a similar experience with a Vietnamese girlOriginally posted by Bob Kohm View PostI'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time--and this includes naps --I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.Comment
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Hey-yo!Originally posted by Kevin SeitzerComment
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