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Racer X wrote:
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No other organization in the world plans or does logistics better than the US military.
I'm humbled and amazed by those courageous soldiers at Kabul airport. They are putting their own lives at risk from violent medieval mofos in order to save other people's lives. Most of us never do anything remotely that brave, or significant.
Don't forget the retired, or at least not directly in US Armed Forces service anymore, who are doing the REALLY dangerous stuff, simply because it's the right thing to do. :patriot:
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I purchased a 10" Ruger pistol upper yesterday from a Boeing employee. He is headed to Qatar next week for a 56 day straight rotation to support C-17 maintenance. The Air Force has been putting SERIOUS hours on those airframes under essentially combat conditions. Corckscrew takeoffs and landings, with chaff and flares to hopefully defeat any SAMs or RPGs. I think one is on the way from the Malaysian Air Force to help out.
This last part has made me so nervous just thinking about it over the last weeks. It probably wouldn't take much given the chaotic situation. Ugh.
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Biden has been a total disappointment his entire career
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decocritter wrote:
Biden has been a total disappointment his entire career
Joe Biden was also known as the Senator from Mastercard for his unyielding support for banks, the finance industry and the infamous
"Bankruptcy Reform" bill. During the run-up to the original Afghanistan invasion he fully supported "nation building" from this
Twitter thread with Chris Matthews as well as a future war with Iraq.
That being true it must be said that the qualities needed to achieve and effect power aren't the same qualities needed to exercise power. So far I've seen a Joe Biden who has decided he no longer needs to kowtow to the needs of special interests or political expediency. LBJ's "War on Poverty" and support for civil rights legislation might be an example of that.
The office can and sometimes does change the man and that might be even more so with a man facing the final stages of life. You don't get to be where he is through blunder or naivete` and he appears to know how to surround himself with competent people; those people, not he, are who will decide if his administration succeeds or fails.
He wasn't my first or even third choice to be the nominee but to this point in time he's surpassed all expectations and shows promise to prove his long time ambition to become President wasn't just another Washington power trip.
