French Riots. Really? Really???

[Clinton Huxley]

Ah, the old false dichotomy ruse. If the US is not a shining example, someone else must be. Maybe no-one is. Maybe being a shining example of military prowess is like being a shining example of buggery.

[Svartalf]

It's easy to look good when you pick opponents with defence budgets a hundred times smaller. Its like me taking on a dead midget.

Wanna box big boy? (OK, I'm not quite dead yet)

[Clinton Huxley]

It's easy to look good when you pick opponents with defence budgets a hundred times smaller. Its like me taking on a dead midget.

Wanna box big boy? (OK, I'm not quite dead yet)

I can wait...

[Coito ergo sum]

Ah, the old false dichotomy ruse. If the US is not a shining example, someone else must be. Maybe no-one is. Maybe being a shining example of military prowess is like being a shining example of buggery.

So, your answer is that there are no shining examples of military prowess?

If that was the intent of the assertion at issue, then the question becomes - why the specific reference to the U.S.? Why not say, "no military is a good military - there are no shining examples."

But, of course, we all know that some are better than others, and some are good and some suck, in light of their intended purpose. The Roman military - shining example. The Germans in 1940 - shining example. The British army for a few hundred years - shining example (and arguably they still are a shining example)....

In some circles, I am sure buggery does have shining examples....

[normal]

Let's not bicker about who made the biggest turd

[Coito ergo sum]

[Clinton Huxley]

Let's not bicker about who made the biggest turd

I concede that that must have been an american

[normal]

Let's not bicker about who made the biggest turd

I concede that that must have been an american

Are you trying to say it's a turd world country?

[Clinton Huxley]

Let's not bicker about who made the biggest turd

I concede that that must have been an american

Are you trying to say it's a turd world country?

Turd World? That's just off the M6, near Stoke

[Coito ergo sum]

Let's not bicker about who made the biggest turd

I concede that that must have been an american

That's only because we eat more. More food = bigger turds.

[Warren Dew]

The Iraq was was a success? You mean your puppet government did not get militarily dismissed as soon as you took your troops out after a drawn out war where you lost in casualties and morale to a fanatic enemy despite overall strategic superiority? 'cause that's about the only way the Iraq debacle was any better than the Vietnam (well, maybe the fact that the deployment was smaller scale, which limited the losses?)

The deployment was about half the size, but our losses were less than a tenth as much. Saddam Hussein was thrown out, and the democratic government we helped establish is still in power, though certainly Obama could possibly still blow it there. Overall, it's basically the best result we could have hoped for, so far, while Viet Nam was close to the worst.

I attribute the difference to the fact that the French weren't involved in Iraq.

[Clinton Huxley]

Let's not bicker about who made the biggest turd

I concede that that must have been an american

That's only because we eat more. More food = bigger turds.

Bigger giblets, too.

[Coito ergo sum]

Let's not bicker about who made the biggest turd

I concede that that must have been an american

That's only because we eat more. More food = bigger turds.

Bigger giblets, too.

I.e., more guts.

[Clinton Huxley]

I am resisting the urge to google "largest human poo"

[Coito ergo sum]

They are measured in courics.