tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post1912763880677328336..comments2023-12-17T19:35:07.459-08:00Comments on Bouphonia: The Unspoilt Beauties of NaturePhilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-23838387492484223572007-04-12T19:00:00.000-07:002007-04-12T19:00:00.000-07:00Use of stealth attack platforms to gain unique fir...<I>Use of stealth attack platforms to gain unique first-strike capability? Brilliant!</I><BR/><BR/>Yeah. Funny how that works...Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-48308361460849731462007-04-12T09:40:00.000-07:002007-04-12T09:40:00.000-07:00though it's not a realistic attitude given our fon...<I>though it's not a realistic attitude given our fondness for landmines and napalm.</I><BR/><BR/>We're good at that kind of rationalization:<BR/><BR/>Sneak attack on the US forces? Perfidy! Treachery! Those knaves!<BR/><BR/>Use of stealth attack platforms to gain unique first-strike capability? Brilliant!Joseph Dietrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13126078371303833881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-41426321880649260502007-04-11T18:04:00.000-07:002007-04-11T18:04:00.000-07:00Just in the last month here in my local area they'...<I>Just in the last month here in my local area they've found one bomb at a hospital construction site, as well as an entire British HP Halifax bomber (which may or may not still have it's 13,000 lb. payload) submerged between the two boat docks at the popular tourist spot of Maria Laach.</I><BR/><BR/>I didn't know that...fascinating.<BR/><BR/>There was talk for a while of putting an LNG terminal in a munitions-strewn portion of (I think) the Irish Channel. Don't know if plans have moved ahead...Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-26840537072617636722007-04-11T18:02:00.000-07:002007-04-11T18:02:00.000-07:00I can't back that up with any data; it's just a gu...<I> I can't back that up with any data; it's just a gut feeling.</I><BR/><BR/>You're probably right, though it's not a realistic attitude given our fondness for landmines and napalm.Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-6049723039972242362007-04-11T13:04:00.000-07:002007-04-11T13:04:00.000-07:00announcing that we're comfortable with.I think the...<I>announcing that we're comfortable with.</I><BR/><BR/>I think there's a certain sense that bullets and bombs - conventional weapons, however horrible - are the weapons of honorable men who stand and fight (or at least fly into the range of your interceptors) and chemical weapons are employed by cowards and other sundry evil folk. I can't back that up with any data; it's just a gut feeling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-40730353376892969512007-04-11T09:57:00.000-07:002007-04-11T09:57:00.000-07:00But they are scary - and too many people I know wh...<I>But they are scary - and too many people I know who should have known better (including a former Army chemical weapons disposal officer - the guy who gave me the information I repeated above!) bought into that Iraq war rationale hook, line, and sinker.</I><BR/><BR/>Yeah, they are. Although what's really interesting to me when we identify something as "scary" is what we're announcing that we're <I>comfortable</I> with.Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-58434116588480761072007-04-11T09:22:00.000-07:002007-04-11T09:22:00.000-07:00Chemical weapons have always seemed to be more eff...Chemical weapons have always seemed to be more effective psychologically than physically; they're scary. But not when you start to think about it - a chemical attack in New York City would have a hell of a time dispersing, and since most chemical weapons are heavier than air anyone above, say, the third floor of a building in the area is pretty safe. In suburban or rural areas, they'd have the opposite problem - they'd disperse too quickly. <BR/><BR/>But they are scary - and too many people I know who should have known better (including a former Army chemical weapons disposal officer - the guy who gave me the information I repeated above!) bought into that Iraq war rationale hook, line, and sinker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-524574483005710412007-04-11T04:37:00.000-07:002007-04-11T04:37:00.000-07:00As an American living in Germany, it amazes how ma...As an American living in Germany, it amazes how many bombs they <B>still</B> find here from the Second World War. Just about every month they find one or two <I>Fünf-</I> or <I>Zehn-Zentner-Bomben</I> (500 or 1,000 lb. bombs) somewhere in the <I>Bundesrepublik</I>. Last October a road worker was killed on the A3 Autobahn when the machine he was running exposed and detonated a 500 lb. bomb. Just in the last month here in my local area they've found one bomb at a hospital construction site, as well as an entire British HP Halifax bomber (which may or may not still have it's 13,000 lb. payload) submerged between the two boat docks at the popular tourist spot of Maria Laach.Joseph Dietrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13126078371303833881noreply@blogger.com