Let them shoot

[Big RR]

I took it to mean that Americans were unfit and stupid. I stand corrected.
ex-khobar Andy Posts: 1023Joined: Fri Dec 18, 2015 11:16 pmLocation: Columbia, Missouri via Leighton Buzzard, Beds.

nah, they just have too many tattoos, have smoked (gasp) marijuana, or have taken Ritalin.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Good news, lib! Congress to take action:

The establishment of a well-organized militia system is one of the most important subjects that will demand the attention of Congress. This subject has already received careful consideration, and it is believed that, after conference with the appropriate committees, a practical system may be agreed upon.

Ja nie. That was Secretary of War Edwin M Stanton, Nov 22, 1865

[liberty]

So what?

You would be a lot happier in England. So, why don’t you go. It is more of your kind of country.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Nie! South Africa is my kind of country. You should visit - there's more to worry about than chimerical Russians

[liberty]

Nie! South Africa is my kind of country. You should visit - there's more to worry about than chimerical Russians

No thanks, not a country for old ( white) men.

And as far as the Russians are concerned if this country is too stupid to see a potential danger you liberals deserve what happens to you. Remember what happened to the German women?

[RayThom]

... And as far as the Russians are concerned if this country is too stupid to see a potential danger you liberals deserve what happens to you. Remember what happened to the German women?

Do you allude to the Red Army and mass rape during the last days of WWII? If not -- what?

[Bicycle Bill]

Nie! South Africa is my kind of country. You should visit - there's more to worry about than chimerical Russians

No thanks, not a country for old ( white) men.

And as far as the Russians are concerned if this country is too stupid to see a potential danger you liberals deserve what happens to you. Remember what happened to the German women?

Pretty much the same things the Wehrmacht, Waffen SS, and SS-Totenkopfverbände were doing to the women in occupied countries....
So that's your thinking now ... we gotta go to war to protect the sanctity, virtue, and purity of our womenfolk.
You've been reading "Gone With The Wind" again, haven't you?

-"BB"-

[liberty]

... And as far as the Russians are concerned if this country is too stupid to see a potential danger you liberals deserve what happens to you. Remember what happened to the German women?

Do you allude to the Red Army and mass rape during the last days of WWII? If not -- what?

That is what I was referring to, but both as a fact and a metaphor. If you pee them off you had better win or at least avoid to total defeat.

As far as Syria is concern war with the Russians there could be a good thing. There we would most certainly win and that could make the Russians less aggressive; provided that we went to great pains not to humiliate them. We should apologize profusely and even pay damages for a sad situation that got out of hand.

[Sue U]

Nie! South Africa is my kind of country. You should visit - there's more to worry about than chimerical Russians

No thanks, not a country for old ( white) men.

But ....

Nevermind.

[liberty]

Nie! South Africa is my kind of country. You should visit - there's more to worry about than chimerical Russians

No thanks, not a country for old ( white) men.

But ....

Nevermind.

I know that Meade is an old white man, but he is a servant not an old white farmer.

[Lord Jim]

Of course the POS-In-Chief won't give a fuck...

Marine Corps commander: Using troops at southern border an 'unacceptable risk' to readiness

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller has warned Pentagon leaders that President Trump’s deployment of active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border and transferring Defense Department funds to support the administration’s border security efforts is creating “unacceptable risk” to the service’s combat readiness.

Neller's is the strongest warning yet from a military leader about the dangers Trump’s border security efforts pose to military readiness.

In two memos sent March 18 and March 19, first obtained by the Los Angeles Times, Neller said that he has canceled or reduced planned military training in at least five countries as well as delayed badly needed base repairs due to Trump’s “unplanned/unbudgeted” border deployment last fall and emergency declaration funding efforts.

The Marine Corps will not be able to participate in planned training exercises in Indonesia, Scotland and Mongolia, and will reduce participation in joint Australian and South Korean exercises, Neller wrote to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer and acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan.

Neller warned that Marines “rely on the hard, realistic training” of such drills “to prepare for high-end combat,” and canceling or diminishing such exercises comes “at a time where we are attempting to double down on strengthening alliances and attracting new partners.”

Trump, shortly before the midterm elections last year, ordered active-duty troops to the U.S. southern border, claiming that a caravan of asylum-seekers traveling north from Central America was a risk to national security.

There are now roughly 6,000 military personnel currently at the border, which include 2,100 National Guard and 3,900 active duty forces.

Trump also declared a national emergency in February in an attempt to allocate funds for his promised border wall after Democrats refused to provide the full $5.7 billion he had requested for the effort.

The administration is now seeking to move about $6.1 billion from Pentagon coffers — $2.1 billion from its counterdrug efforts and $3.6 billion from military construction — to put toward building the border structure.

Neller also writes that because of the planned reprogramming he is limited in his ability to transfer money for needed repairs after hurricanes Florence and Michael, which is adding to the readiness strain.

The two hurricanes severely damaged Marine facilities and housing in North Carolina and Georgia, and the service is currently short $1.3 billion for recovery operations this year.

“The hurricane season is only three months away and we have Marines, Sailors, and civilians working in compromised structures,” Neller writes.

Congress passed a resolution that would block Trump’s emergency declaration, though the president vetoed it last week.

Following the report on Neller's memos, Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member Jack Reed (D-R.I.), said he hoped Trump would not ignore "clear warning flags" from military officials.

"President Trump has ignored the facts, ignored the experts, and ignored a big bipartisan vote against his views on boarder security. I hope he doesn’t try to ignore this memo. [Oh he will, bet on it. Either that or he'll denounce the memo and claim he knows more about the needs for Marine readiness than the Commandant of the Marine Corps] Decorated, senior military leaders are raising clear warning flags and trying to prevent our military from being damaged," Reed said.

Lawmakers now want to know which military construction projects would be postponed or canceled should Pentagon dollars be redirected to a wall.

The Pentagon on Monday delivered to Congress a 21-page list of military construction projects with funding that could be up for grabs, and includes everything from equipment maintenance facilities to training areas to schools for military families.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4352 ... le-risk-to

The proper defense of the United States has never been the slightest consideration for Il Boobce; doesn't make his radar screen...

This costly and security-damaging charade will continue because he finds it useful for conning the xenophobic suckers in his political base, the defense needs of the United States be damned...