Re: why isn't the headline "phalanx system destroys enemy missiles" ?


"Jack Love" <jackxxloveyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:48:03 +0100, "William Black"
> <abuse@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Jack Love" <jackxxloveyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >news:34kkg1dm6lisof6p59m4e8a94mltr0ik6f@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >> I don't feel that being constrained to M16s in 'neutral
> >> ports' is sensible either.
> >
> >Well what's acceptable is down to the port rather than the ship.
> >
> >If the USN doesn't like the conditions it can go elsewhere.
> >
> >However, political constraints apply here.
> >
> >US Navy ships in Middle Eastern ports these days aren't there to give the
> >crew an interesting couple days ashore.
>
> And you do have some, however slight, contact with reality. On the
> other hand you continue your 'Americans must die for PR' comments.
> Keeping you in the scum category.

It's the US government that wants them there.

One assumes there must therefore be an acceptable level of casualties...

The current executive may well be groundlessly optimistic about how people
feel about US servicemen in the Middle East, they certainly proved to be so
in Iraq, however I assume the DNI and his people are better informed and
have told the politicians exactly what the risks are.

It's the US government that has decided that some US servicemen may well die
for PR, not me.

--
William Black

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
Barbeques on fire by chalets past the headland
I've watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off Newborough
All this will pass like ice-cream on the beach
Time for tea


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