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It is never "easier than you think." The M1 Abrams is powered by a jet engine. It is really heavy and really complex. Recovery vehicles, loaders to move it, as well as normal consumables and normal maintenance for its operation are way more complicated. Leopard tanks from Germany and Challenger tanks from the UK make way more sense.

Not interested in what Boris Johnson has to say about this. Headlines for the ignorant. Providing front line, near state of the art arms to the Ukraine is a complicated issue requiring many levels of competency for success. Boris isn't the guy to deliver an accurate or realistic approach.

I'd be glad to, when that exists. Point it out with real quotes, not made up ones that eliminate essential words. Know what? It aint gonna happen. You and your partner are going to continue quotidian efforts, and it doesn't matter what happens in disagreement, because you will continue to invent posts, misrepresent policy and view and do what you do. Everybody knows it.

I'm not digging, I'm accusing. You are a fool and a liar. Quite clear.

Put your money...... Short the $ and see where that takes you. I think both right and left are quite awake.

No. You didn't "bust" me on anything. Your first lie is stating I claimed, ever, to be a Biblical scholar. Your second mistake, or lie, is claiming I said something I didn't, on a subject that anyone with a modicum of knowledge would know, except you. Your third lie is misstating what McCarthy said, which was not a cut, but a cap at 22 levels. Your fourth ignorance is repeatedly misspelling Testament. You are either so immersed in partisan nonsense that your ability for discernment is corrupt, or you are simply not smart enough to interpret English.

You are simply too ignorant. I never said the old Testament rules don't apply. I said there are items in the "Law," outlined in the Old Testament that Jews were to live by that do not apply to Christians, and I pointed many out. You seem to have forgotten that, as well as misquoting me. Here's an example as it may be easier for you to understand. In the 1967-68 NCAA basketball season, dunking was ruled illegal. If someone said, in 1980, that the NCAA basketball rules had been modified, and dunking was now legal, only an idiot suggest that that person said no rues prior to 67 existed in '80. Is that too complicated? Read the suggestions from McCarthy about leaving defense spending where it was weeks ago. See his suggestions? Eliminating woke classes/seminars that are expensive and time consuming. Ceasing to fund expensive and thus non productive weird fuel programs was mentioned. By the way, some have promise, not that you would know. Suggesting that run downs in US weapons inventory below acceptable levels need not be worried about because there are fewer targets is all one needs to see to determine your level of knowledge.

This is utter nonsense . The "number of targets" is a specious suggestion. The "GOP trying to cut defense spending," is a great idea if you actually read the link. The cuts suggested were in non effective, wasteful issues, and would take us "back" to a few week's ago defense spending. Not real cuts. Few know it, but the mandate that the US military has is to be able to fight a two front war. The locations change, but that is now thought to be a European/NATO thing, and a South China Sea thing-anyone can figure out who that is directed at. In order to do that, you have to have the manpower, equipment and logistics.

Regarding inventories, I posted this on Dec. 9 in this forum: "First on an inventory note, I was watching the CEO of Raytheon on CNBC the other day and he mentioned that in the first ten months of this war, Ukraine had gone through ten years of Javelin production and fifteen years of Stinger production. Obviously, we need to get those, or replacements back up to acceptable inventories."

Don't have to "do Biden." Biden is not only done, he's being done by his own party as they abandon ship. Glad to see both he and Trump gone, if it works out that way.

Whoever the "cult" is, perhaps they were moved to serious personal reflection after hearing Biden sermonize about his life long serious approach to such matters just months before they were discovered in every property he owns.

You are digging deeper. You don't simply throw classified material in a box, and pack it like any moving item. Further, you are required that anyone who has access to it has appropriate security clearances, and depending on level, a need to know. This is gross negligence. It is this attitude that permeates the gov including Congress and their staffs, and it's exactly why we get less cooperation from the Brits and more specifically the Israelis in security and intel matters. There is a view that the US doesn't treat this stuff with anywhere near the level of importance that other countries do, and our porous history is embarrassing, and ultimately expensive if not dangerous.

The "facts?" The facts are that intentional or not, he was responsible for properly handling them. The political "class" in this country has diferentiated itself form others, who are sworn to uphold these type of responsibilities. The "feelings," true or not, are yours's.

Gross, seemingly uncaring negligence by both him and his staff all of which he has decried and claim he was above in the recent past. Gets you potentially court martialed and in jail in other, less privileged but supposed to be just as responsible organizations. Totally irresponsible and stupid. I had one experience with this during service time. We had a safe where the stuff was stored, and materials were logged in and out. One guy checked out a TS document which was not allowed out of the squadron building. We do doing an Air Force thing at Nellis, and somebody spotted the red cover and binder in the back of a rental. The guy was not prosecuted, but offered a deal he couldn't refuse. He was out of the service in one month. The items likely discussed in the presidential/vice presidential nonsense were likely briefing documents that are prepared by intel orgs for reading. Staff members should be tasked with providing them and returning them. Just gross failures and negligence.

Ya. Good job. I've got an idea. How about respecting and conforming to the laws, directives and protocols involving handling thee documents, the way everybody is supposed to? If you do that, you don't have to worry about "cooperating with law enforcement." Instead, we have one guy who has sensitive documents strewn all over the place, and another who absolutely failed to respect established protocols in declassifying materials. One points to having the individual and his staff being grossly negligent, and the other playing some legal game. Shame on both of them, and their staffs.

The money we spent changing the name of the NOTAM system from Notice to Airmen, which was evidently sexist and offensive, to Notice to Air Missions, which makes absolutely no sense as non military aviation is never a mission, could have been spent enhancing the software. But no. You get the results you get when you put political friends in leadership roles instead of people who have knowledge, experience and talent in those areas.

I have a fully developed and functional "conscience." The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs advises the Secretary of Defense who then serves the president. The services do not form military policy. They advise on what is possible and recommend how that they would prefer to carry out directives given by the national command authority. Regarding this suggestion of what Trump said, I wouldn't doubt it at all. The guy has no normal, disciplined control over his mouth and has said countless stupid things. I'm quite certain there was never any realistic threat to perform a nuclear strike on North Korea.

I am always pleased to be called names by you. As a "clown," I do alright,

I'm not Chef, but we've used induction for over ten years. Wouldn't do anything else. Same goes with tankless water heaters.

The "military leadership," if you even understand your words, does not commit to military action by the US. The "military leadership" is given a task by our government and attempts to carry it out. By the way, do a little research on Congressional support, and Biden on particular, before you make stupid assertions.

I think they did pretty well in Iraq one and two and Afghanistan. What happened after has little to do with military leadership. I think "gross incompetence" is lack of awarness.

"Today, 95 percent of our school busses are fueled with diesel fuel. Which contributes to very serious conditions that are about health and the ability to learn." Goodness what an idiot.

There's a thread in the "Off the Wall" forum that goes over this in a bit more detail. "Jay Rosen. Air Traffic Controller." Either way, this is so predictable. Sect. of Transportation Beetlejuice remarkably non camera worthy today, as his boys fail miserably. Yet.....Last couple of weeks there wasn't a camera in the nation that didn't have him mugging about how he was going after Southwest for their meltdown, which was inexusable. Today, as his FAA causes a nation wide ground stop.....Not much. This is what causes rational, sane people to desire smaller government. No matter how much money you throw at them, they screw it up, as there are no consequences. Same for the usual two Biden admin rationalists here. Strangely, sickeningly quiet on this.

They spent the redundancy money to change the name, because Notice to Airmen was sexist.

Is there ever a point where we stop comparing and politicizing gross offenses that would result in military people losing their commissions/jobs and perhaps facing criminal charges? This recent generation of the political class, regardless of party affiliation, leads a life devoid of any accountability for basic law abidance. Doesn't matter which party, these are grossly negligent and potentially criminal acts that get other folks put in jail.