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Old 03-31-07, 12:11 PM   #24
greyrider
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Originally Posted by 1mPHUNit0
No America not only underestimated
but was very stupid too...like nazi Barbarossa Operation

But...and there is always a but
some peoples was getting richer
then not all was stupids
i dont know what country you live in 1mPHUNito, but i was in germany in 1973, and while waiting for a train at the bahnhof, i met a gentlemen, about 55 years old, who walked with a limp. his name was DR. Carl ZELTER.

he started a conversation with me, by asking me if i was an american. he was a real happy go lucky guy, who was a young german soldier on the eastern front in ww2.

after fighting the russians for months, he was finally wounded and captured, and spent the next 3 years in a russian POW camp.

the russians gave him no medical treatment, none! thats why he walked with a limp.

he also told me there are alot of people in germany that thought american troops
in germany should go home, but he said he didnt think the u.s. troops should leave germany, because of russia.

did he know his enemy well? i think he did.

but i told him, and i still believe it, that if germany had just fought russia alone,
germany would have wiped the russians out, period.

russia and china are still the problem today, just like yesterday, they protect dirt bag countries like the persians, embolden them, and so they do things like ambush
a row boat full of sailors, lightly armed.

why not take on HMS cornwall?

its looking alot like pre world war two out there, i am resigned to war, its comming.
dont expect your enemy to all of a sudden become people of good will, its not gonna happen, and tho russia and china walk the walk, and talk the talk, its still a protracted conflict between them and the west, just as it was in the cold war.

and you know what? they have almost won, because the west is shaken in thier boots.

but i'm not, i already count myself as dead, now i can fight for my children, like a demon from hell, and i will!

the ghosts of darius and xerxes are rising again, but so isnt the spirits of Thermopylae and marathon.
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Her gun crew had guts, however, for from her canting bow came a half dozen well-aimed rounds. How they pointed and trained their gun on that tilting platform will long remain a wonder, and their dedication in keeping up the fire until they went under would be a matter of pride to any nation.

O'Kane, Richard. Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang
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