On Tuesday, November 13, 2001, at 08:48 , Ted Morgan wrote:
> Passing these two items along, since they tend to concentrate on what
> Americans don't hear about today's war... The first deals with a little
> 80s history, while the second is a report from Robert Fisk a longtime
> Middle-East correspondent for the Independent (UK).
>
> Ted
When we talk about 'what the americans are not hearing' do we mean to
note
what they didn't want to know about back then, and are still unwilling to
interrupt their lives with unravelling now?
I mean, come on, give me a break - trying to Shill to me that the Kabul
regime was defending with ammunition left over from 1943 Russian
Arsenals.
Hello, have we been drinking the bong water? The ZSU-4-23 was not even
IN the russian inventory in WWII.....
let us not confuse the designatore 7.62x39 M1943 - which indicates rounds
that are for use with the AK family of fire arms with the actual
manufacture
date - that way is as silly as presuming that all M1911A1's were made in
1911 - including all of the candian new built ones.
I can understand that 'get it' about actual military operations means
taking
a little time out and becoming aware of how to do some basic analysis,
and
that it takes a little time and skill, but in the intervening time since
the start of the Persian Gulf War we have been able to get ruth to
differenciate
between SAM's going up, stuff falling down, Anti-Aircraft Artillery, and
the
basic primary and secondary explosions that have been the boring staples
from
the night vision vantage point of the war to date.
So come on folks, if we are going to counter 'propoganda wars' - lets
start
by at least being truthful. Surface to Air Missiles were not a part of
the
1943 russian arsenal - those are "modern" inventions. I'm not asking
folks
to be able to recite the full inventory of soviet made radar systems as a
principle indicator of target acquisition and tracking systems for all of
the various SAM configurations, but let us at least be able to do better
than the Americans who Panic'd when 'the day after' was shown on TV and
rushed out to picket the american naval enlisted club that happened to
have a Satellite Dish up so that they could watch the american football
games.
I know, it takes some work, but a little practice, and a little
attention to
detail and you can do the basic leg work from what imaging is released.
Now as for the fun with nicaragua. Hello, take the time, actually go read
the reading of the World Court with regards to the Suit brought by
Nicaragua.
Hell most of the players at the time wanted the Reagan Administration to
post
the NOTAMs { Notice to all Mariners } which would have complied with the
Hague
convention on the use of Naval Mines. But while we are going down this
way, we
would also be well served to resolve some of the open questions like why
did
Commandante Zero walk on the Sandindistas.... not to mention the reality
space
that American Weapons Abandoned when the Saigon Regime fell showed up in
El Salvadore
and that Nicaragua did admit to supporting their Fraternal Socialist
Bretheran.
Wow, that was a lot of work - just like the american policy of using the
newly
freed up Egyptian AK's and shipping them off to Afghanistan.
But of course to go through all of this would really mean taking us back
through
the same social unpleasantry of actually LISTENING to the Red Army
Grunts who
served 'in country' and the fact that they got as screwed over as other
grunts
sent abroad to stop the 'evil menance' while back home those who had the
education
and the family connections to be able to 'avoid the draft' - or as the
current
round of popularized interviews on things like the discovery channel and
BBC
have been pointing out, a lot of Russian Grunts were sold the bag of
goods that
they were going in to help a fraternal socialist fellow state and that
they
would be directly combatting american troops.
Come On Folks. If we're going to do anything let us at least learn both
from our own history, and from the sheer absurdity of the rhetoric that
there
is probably not going to be a pony underneath that steaming mound of
DUNG.
I mean, how many americans KNEW on 9/10 that the USA was still legally at
war? Clearly the trendy leftists of the 'anti-war' cabal were not running
up there protesting the american war with Iraq - and now clearly feel
that
they should do something about their silence.
ciao
drieux
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