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Originally Posted by Red October1984
That's what I was thinking...But...In the movie, Soviet paratroopers land in Colorado. The IL-76 doesn't have that kind of range to get to Colorado and back does it?
Even if it did, how did it get past Radar? NORAD and stuff.... Would they have flown in the commercial lanes and pretended to be airliners? If they did that, how could they have gotten that far?
Cuba would make sense as an FOB but wouldn't you think they would go for the East Coast and Gulf Coast rather than Colorado?  |
You really expect Hollywood to think of that stuff? And they could simply go on a one way mission so its not outside the realm of possibility.The SAC B-52s that would have been a one way mission.
As you say an enemy would target industrial areas if they where planning on taking control of another country.
An internal war is much more feasible all though even that would be unlikely because there just are not enough truly dedicated combatants the people
really into such acts right now a total wing nuts and only in small numbers and they would lack the support of the general population not because they dislike the government but because they typically racist organizations and most people have a problem with that.
I for one would be more than willing to resist an oppressive government but I have as much of a problem with racists so if they where active in a fictionalized US civil war situation they would be in my sights just the same as someone wearing the uniform of a tyrannical government in that case the enemy of my enemy is not my friend.One tyrannical ideology replacing another sounds bad to me.
I had a "friend" in the USAF once tell me all sorts of things "Turner Dairy" sort of things and things about how wonderful Hitler and the Nazis where.I guess he thought I felt the same way as he did not sure why at the time I was married to a Korean woman and he knew this.
Of course some Koreans are a bit racist.
Anyway I did not say anything to him nor did I mention it because there where others like him got to watch your back and all.Thier where also a lot generally anti-government folks in the military that where not wing nuts or racists and there there where also hard core government loyalists.So myself in my experience I dont put faith in the idea that every vet will be on the same page if certain events where to happen.In the end you have to believe in what you believe in and stand up for it.