"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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: Andrew Chaplin wrote in message
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: Kevin Brooks wrote:
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: (Evan Brennan) wrote in message
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: snip various rants
:
: We deployed our British and Australian hirelings because no
one else
: was willing. And because Moe always brings Larry and Curly
when he
: goes on a road trip.
:
: I had thought Evan to be just rabidly anti-British, but now he
has not
: only extended that irrational thought process to include the
Aussies,
: but apparently also our own forces (Moe?!). It is probably
appropriate
: that he engages in this kind of discourse with the likes of
: Aerophotos/JGG--kind of "worst meets the worst" from both sides.
Too
: bad they can't take their respective prejudices into a private
: chatroom of some sort and (hopefully) knock both of themselves
out...
:
: The posts he writes are factitious -- a lot of what he writes is
true,
: but strung together so present his targets in the poorest light.
He is
: a cynic and ready to impute the least charitable motives to anyone
: about whom he writes. It seems unlikely he has ever read a
: historiography text, since he always seems to miss the basic bit
about
: putting yourself in the place of those of whom you write in order
to
: understand why they acted the way they did.
:
: You are probably mostly correct, though he also has demonstrated a
: marked ability to ignore reality when it suits him (i.e., his past
: violently argued contention that SFOD-Delta was *not* based upon the
: SAS when it was formed--which claim he made just before the
: publication of the newest Delta-founding member's book (Haney,
IIRC),
: who like every other Delta guy who has written on the subject quite
: openly admitted to the SAS influence). As to putting himself in
their
: place-- I find it a bit odd that he continually berates British,
: Aussie, etc., military personnel, and has never apparently even worn
a
: uniform himself.

He is one turkey who has his own selective view of history and
somewhat of a strained agenda..
And, as you state, some-one who has little firsthand knowledge of the
military..