Re: A dream I had last night

Geeman wrote:

> I'm walking along the sidewalk near my house.
> There's a tank on the sidewalk parallel to the street.
> It turns it's turret toward me, keeping me in it's sights
> as I pass by.
> Then I pass another which does the same.
> Two steel dinosaurs with artillery.

It was just a dream, the Soviet Union exists no more.

> In real life tanks are very large and terrifying.

Like you've actually had some experience.

> Many brave men have lost control of their bodily
> functions at the sight of rapidly approaching tanks.
Maybe I was wrong. Personal experience?

> I segue to the Middle East.
> A cross-armed hawkish manager of some kind stands before
> three large tanks parked neatly in a row.

Hussein's gone too.

> He's yammering about American might and ingenuity as the
> tanks extract oil.
> (Physical laws don't apply in dreams, but symbolism does.)

Yeah, I bet America gave Hussein the whim whams.

> They remind me of giant, frightening ticks pressed against 
> the earth, sucking hydrocarbon blood.
> Instead of sand, they're parked on neatly manicured grass,
> each one set on the short grass of a golf course hole.
> The hawk yammers on.
> Suddenly I lose my temper and shout,
> "I don't care HOW powerful we are, they're gonna wipe us OUT!"
Never had a drean where I was an Iraqi. Must be awful.

> I don't know what the chances of that are, but we have enraged
> the entire Muslim world and there are a LOT of Arabs in
> the Middle East.
> Remember Custer before you laugh.

I know Custer was outgunned. Little known fact. The seventh cavalry were 
issued single shot rolling block rifles. The indians were equipped with 
Winchester seven shot lever action repeaters. Puts things in a whole new 
light, doesn't it?

> And watch as our soldiers are picked off one, two, seventeen
> at a time.
They volunteered. Who are you to criticize their choice. You anti-choice 
or sompin.

> American might allowed US to invade Iraq in cake walk fashion.
> American arrogance has turned the entire Muslim world against us.
Oh? You wouldn't happen to know how many broke diplomatic relations with 
us, do you?

> BTW, the reason why Custer's men were slaughtered was because
> he ordered them to box up all their sabers so they wouldn't
> rattle as they "snuck in."

Like sabers would have helped them against Winchester rifles. I was 
wrong. You've had no personal combat experience or you'd know how 
ignorant you sound right now.

> Six shots from each Colt Percussion Revolver, then they were 
> defenseless.  If they had had their sabers they might have prevailed.
> The Sioux Nation were actually watching them as they tried
> to sneak into the Little Big Horn.
Yeah, you're an idiot. A pistol has an effective range of about 50 yds. 
A winchester with a range of 300 has them just slightly outranged. And 
again with the sabers? A saber has an effective rabge of four or so feet 
depending on the lenght of the arm. You really are massively ignorant. 
The folks at the civil war interest group will get a good laugh out of 
this. Excuse me while I print this out.

I'm back.

> Sounds very much like Iraq.
> Little or no resistance as "We" rode in, but now the small arms
> are out and guerilla war is in full swing.

Oh, our troops boxed up their sabers. Gee, I was never issued one. Maybe 
that's why we lost in Vietnam also, huh? But wait a minute, the Japanese 
had sabers and they got beat awfull bad. Banzai attacks by saber 
weilding officers got wiped out to a man. Maybe you just might possibly 
be wrong about those fearsome sabers, ya think?

> How do you defeat a Super Power?

Arm your team with sabers? Now there I think they would be effective, 
but isn't there some silly rules about weapons?

> --Let them invade you first...
>
> Remember my old rantings about how Iraq would become
> another Vietnam-like quagmire?
> Was I right?
No. You're so massively ignorant you can't tell the difference between a 
war and minor skirmishing.


> One more question:
> Does anyone believe the the Iraqi resistance is simply
> the work of "terrorists?"

Yes. Hussein was a terrorists and so are the people fighting American 
troops. Why do you think its all in the Hussein triangle dumpling?

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an 
equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
Carl Schurz (1829-1906)