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Of course. Moral outrage over wrongs on a personal level is and should be very different from state policies. National interests should be the goal of state policies.

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What would Sturgis be without a trip to the Buffalo Chip? :D Warning: NSFW self delete

This view? :D Lufthansa A380, 1-100 sec at f - 5.3, ISO 400, 52 mm by ArgusPanoptes007, on Flickr

I can agree with all of that. My only correction was about the use of non metallic materials in the early U-2s. _________________________________________ You may find this interesting...

Sorry, I thought you had a different opinion about it. My bad.

The nose is designed relative to its relatively large fuselage diameter for its cruising speed, and the tall rudder is designed relative to its relatively short double-decker fuselage. Form follows function. The wing is over-designed for longer variants to come later.

My "we" includes the Army too, the real decision-maker in this regard.

Back then, aluminum alloys were the lightweight materials until honeycomb panels were developed for the Hustler. Shiny unpainted aluminum is very much a metal and does not absorb radar waves. Absorbent coatings and composites were added much later. Early U-2s were NOT made from "nonmetallic...

Why should any Muslim's sentiments, who is fasting by his own choice, be hurt in any way at all if someone else is having lunch by their own choice? I may choose to fast. Someone may choose not to fast.

Yea, nice shiny unpainted aluminum.

This sentence is incorrect for early U-2s. Here it is in nice shiny aluminum:

The 10 soldiers every other day is part of the cost that is being accepted for the "greater good". All for the nation, of course. Why has that "going all out" not happened till now? Because we do not want it to happen. That is why.

No Sir. The Army is hiding because it has decided to let Pakistani society absorb all these deaths caused by its own pet snakes so that it will have a trump card to play against its adversaries. Sounds cold and harsh, but that is the way it seems to me.

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Do either of you think that our present crop of leaders have the brains to provide the strategy that is more than "Kill & Dump"? We tried that in 1970 too. We still have not learned anything.

Let me allow others to propose something to stop it lest I be called a pessimist yet again.

It is not just economics or social development and it is not just Baluchistan. This is a budding civil war that will tear apart the whole country if we do not stop it. The Beginning of the End, as they call it. We have only a little time to do this.

Yes, he can share it with all his new boyfriends in jail for years to come.

So how well is this "nuanced approach" working out so far?