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I am not posting this in order to dis the Philippines. I am just honestly shocked at several of the statements of the Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte. Say what you will about Trump, but what the heck is up with this guy? o_O First he makes a joke a about the looks of an Australian...

In brief; the Iraq militia. They are under the Iraqi Army's sponsorship but they are local militia. There are Shia, Sunni, Christian, Yazidi, units, all dedicated to defeating ISIS/ISIL.

Fyi, if the whole world already knows about it before Trump has even taken office, it's not really a Nixon-Kissinger type strategy. It also misses where the pro-Russian sentiment with many of us conservatives, (that Trump just latched onto.), comes from. Just a clue; it has nothing to do with...

But you have yet to explain how the US took note of it in regards to the bin-Laden raid, before China ever made such a pledge to Pakistan. So I'm to believe that some vague, unnamed, "members on the forum" are the definitive authorities on this issue? How about we look at what we actually do...

Have a Blessed Advent and a Merry Christmas, Vikings! Try and keep the rampaging to manageable levels.

Huh, I had no idea Pakistan had crocodiles. As an American, you think "Pakistan", you just don't think, "crocodile". o_O

I'm sure the US didn’t think anything at all about China in relation to the raid. Indeed, China's reaction was to issue this statement... "The People's Republic of China (PRC) said on Monday evening that the death of Osama bin Laden was "a milestone and a positive development for the...

Thanks! :tup: I'm not really a "Paulite" though. I'm more of a traditional conservative/right-wing Catholic and I actually voted for the Constitution Party nominee for president, Mr. Castle. And I actually like @gambit 's posts and I to, wish the communist were gone from beautiful Vietnam...

Except Pakistan didn't know OBL was there. Heck, we weren’t completely sure he was there. As for China, they only made their pledge to defend Pakistan after the raid, not before it, so it could not have deterred the US from anything.

It would be had that happened, but it didn't really happen that way. SEAL team 6, is not some fixed team with the same members. For one thing, the "SEAL team 6" that was on the bin-Laden raid, was drawn from DEVGRU's Red Squadron. The "SEAL team 6" involved in the Chinhook helicopter...

Well, like I said, and made the point to Gambit, I am not an isolationist. The problem though, is that that is always the label fixed to anyone in America who questions whether we should intervene in country "x". The interventionist flip side is that we are so fixated in our WW2 mindset that...

I think you mean the Neutrality Act of 1939. The 1937 Act had to do with Spain. In any event, what contributed to British appeasement was British memoires of the carnage of WW1 as well as British internal politics. Had the allies not been so ghastly to Germany after WW1, they wouldn't have...

I hope they can retake Palmyra now. Godspeed to them.

Well, first of all, I would not call myself an isolationist, as in WW2, we were attacked by Japan and Hitler declared war on us, so I have no problem in going to war against them, but I don't know how America could have stopped the rise of Nazism or the Japanese Empire, by being interventionist...

How?

I haven't the foggiest idea what a "futurist" is, and frankly, I don't think I would put much stock in what they say, but I for one, hope that my country does develop a much smaller footprint in the world. We Americans have gotten so used to be the "world's superpower" since the end of WW2 and...

As the pictures in the post above demonstrate, naval aviation from carriers, is extremely hazardous even in peacetime. Plus, the Admiral Kuznetsov is much smaller than American carriers and that makes operations even more difficult. Operating full size fleet carriers is something that takes a...

His body was buried at sea for very specific reasons, so as not to make his grave site a "shrine". The United States could care less, frankly, what anyone else believes. They only care that we caught up to the bastard and killed him. I don't know what China said about defending...

I don't think you understand that the F-22 & F-35 were designed and built for very different missions.

Some posts here seem to suggest that the F-35 is still an uncertain thing. There are already more F-35's that have been built than F-22's. They are already flying in active service in the USAF. Hundreds more of them have already been ordered around the world, and nothing is going to replace it.