This is why, it's a decent excuse for some education on how war and military engagement even work, which is incredibly rare in CY+06, when everything is couched in weird "my gun is the biggest gun" terms because no one's fought a real war in 80 years. I honestly assumed this thread would get shunted to Deep Thoughts by now, but it looks like it wound up in Tommy's cult page instead.
I would like to thank everybody for their thoughtful opinions and fart in the general direction of the mean and stupid. There is a reason for this that has been going on a lot longer than kiwi farmers have been milking me for laughs. the last thing the predator class wants is for me to become an influential "gedanken fuehrer" , my knowledge of actual history and the way the natural world works are much too dangerous to their control in the minds of too many people. They have been keeping me well contained away from the mainstream press since 1982.