Pirates vs. the U.S. Navy

[biggiy05]

Lol. I wonder how long it'll be before they make a movie out of modern pirates. Actually, I saw this on the new last night. I thought the pirates took over the navel ship, and seized that captain though. At least that is how the news made it sound.

They took over the ship then hours later the crew overpowered the pirates. In the mix of all this, the captain voluntarily left with the pirates in exchange for his crews safety. Ballsy move but I can respect him for thinking of his crew first.

[rock_nog]

How is weakening or defense a good thing? The best offense is a good defense.

Actually it's the other way around, the best defense is a good offense. But seriously, shouldn't we concentrate our spending on things we actually need right now?

[biggiy05]

Actually it's the other way around, the best defense is a good offense. But seriously, shouldn't we concentrate our spending on things we actually need right now?

Did you forget what country we live in? Since when did we spend money on things we NEED?

[Beldaran]

So it would seem to me that he is rearranging the budget to meet current military needs. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

How is missile defense and a strong navy not a need given rampant piracy, threats from Russia, and North Korean and Iranian dictatorships jockeying for the bomb?

Liberals are just fundamentally anti-american at heart and they want to peel away our defenses, applaud Castro, and slowly socialize our economy. I say build a huge, towering, horrifyingly powerful military, and tell evil countries to suck our big red white and blue dick.

Seriously, if I were the President, I would just carpet nuke the fuck out of North Korea right now. Fuck that shit hole of a country and its evil dictatorship. They are evil. Their population is already the walking dead because of the tyrants who rule them. Just solve the whole problem at once.

[rock_nog]

We have real wars that we are fighting right now. Those should get higher priority over hypotheticals. I'm not saying drop our guard entirely, but we do need to reprioritize to meet the military needs that we have right now. If things are going to come to fighting in any of the countries you mentioned, that would be years down the line. Certainly neither North Korea nor Iran currently has the capability to pose a serious threat to us at the moment.

[Cloral]

You know rock_nog, I don't think you should take what Beldaran is saying seriously. I'm sure he's being sarcastic.

[Aegix Drakan]

Wow. I thought this shit didn't happen anymore.

Anyways, if there is a battleship floating near them, and they hav eno juice left in the motor, basically the only bargain they can hope to make is "we'll hand over the hostage! Just don't kill us!". I mean, they're totally boned.

Not a smart move on their part.

Ballsy move but I can respect him for thinking of his crew first.

Agreed. I salute him for that too.

[Brasel]

Certainly neither North Korea nor Iran currently has the capability to pose a serious threat to us at the moment.

I would rather walk down the streets of Baghdad naked, with an American flag in my hand, than set foot in either North Korea or Iran with an entire unit. Those fuckers are all crazy, and sooner or later, they're going to do something that will require us to retaliate. And if we don't retaliate, we'll get looked at unfavorably by the rest of the world for not doing anything...not that we would be looked at favorably for doing it either.

[rock_nog]

I would rather walk down the streets of Baghdad naked, with an American flag in my hand, than set foot in either North Korea or Iran with an entire unit. Those fuckers are all crazy, and sooner or later, they're going to do something that will require us to retaliate. And if we don't retaliate, we'll get looked at unfavorably by the rest of the world for not doing anything...not that we would be looked at favorably for doing it either.

I'm not opposed to retaliation here, it's just, there needs to be something to retaliate against. From what I can tell, it seems that mainly they're just stirring up anti-American sentiment to distract from their own incompetence. Actually going to war and having us turn their countries into parking lots would kind of defeat the purpose.

[Prrkitty]

I would rather walk down the streets of Baghdad naked, with an American flag in my hand, than set foot in either North Korea or Iran with an entire unit. Those fuckers are all crazy, and sooner or later, they're going to do something that will require us to retaliate. And if we don't retaliate, we'll get looked at unfavorably by the rest of the world for not doing anything...not that we would be looked at favorably for doing it either.

I agree with Anthony... naked and the whole bit.

I bet it's North Korea that does something first. Their leaders don't care about their own people... much less anyone else.

And when they finally do... do something... I'm afraid it's going to be bigger then anyone ever thought of or even tried to anticipate. There's many rumors that they have WMD's and even nukes (amongst other massive damage causing weapons). And they ain't afraid to use 'em... EVEN if their own people are caught in the cross-fire.