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Title: could history be repeating itelf?
Post by: hawk220 on August 02, 2002, 09:33:14 AM

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html

Title: could history be repeating itelf?
Post by: HFMudd on August 02, 2002, 10:14:01 AM

Since the gist of the article/book seems to be "Bad Ideas Came up but Cooler Heads Prevailed", let's hope that history continues to repeat itself.

Title: could history be repeating itelf?
Post by: midnight Target on August 02, 2002, 10:16:04 AM

BS. All scenarios are considered by strategic specialists. I bet we even have a plan for a war with Canada. This article is nonsense.

Title: Ah, but midnight...
Post by: Upchuck on August 02, 2002, 12:23:13 PM

But do those other potential strategic scenarios you mentioned include overt acts of treason against the people and soldiers of the United States of America in an effort to bring that particular scenario to pass?  

Has anyone ever taken one of these strategic scenarios, passed it by the Joint Chiefs and seriously presented it to the President saying, "We ought to do this."

Title: could history be repeating itelf?
Post by: Maverick on August 02, 2002, 01:46:47 PM

Nice premise. Sensational basis of the book. Where is the proof? Anyone can print just about anything in a book, it doesn't make it true.

Hell, Tom Clancy has had better ideas that those in this article. He doesn't claim that they are true either.