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In article , "Pete"
wrote: "Tuollaf43" wrote Where you are promptly arrested and shipped stateside on charges of impersonating an officer of the US armed forces and for conducting an unauthorised attack on a friendly nation(Japan wasnt at war at the time you stuck the carriers) in an UFO with USAF markings. At the end of the day you receive a letter of reprimend from FDR for wreaking his awesome 'day of infamy' and 'unprovoked attack' speech he was preparing for so long, for just such a day. You go down in history as the mysterious madman who triggered war in the pacific by attacking the peaceful, friendly japanese fleet who had been conducting freedom of navigation excersices in the vicinity. With 20/20 hindsight, and the means to preventor seriously inhibit the war in the Pacific, I think that's a reprimand I'd take. Again, with 20/20 hindsight, if you could shoot (name your favorite dictator), knowing it would land you in jail, but but also knowing it would prevent X thousand or million deaths, would you do it? I'd like to think I would. One of my mentors took his doctorate in Germany. He told me that in, oh, 1937 or so, he was presented to Hitler. While he was an academic, he was also a wrestler, and felt he could have done great damage -- if he had only known. I remember watching him shake over the memory, and the only words I could offer him were that he couldn't have known -- and wrestling doesn't give you the skill to kill someone in seconds. |
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"Howard Berkowitz" wrote One of my mentors took his doctorate in Germany. He told me that in, oh, 1937 or so, he was presented to Hitler. While he was an academic, he was also a wrestler, and felt he could have done great damage -- if he had only known. I remember watching him shake over the memory, and the only words I could offer him were that he couldn't have known -- and wrestling doesn't give you the skill to kill someone in seconds. Please don't take this as a jab at your mentor but did he talk about why he and others "didn't know"? After all, Kristalnacht for example was four years in the past at that point. |
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In article , Paul F Austin wrote:
"Howard Berkowitz" wrote One of my mentors took his doctorate in Germany. He told me that in, oh, 1937 or so, he was presented to Hitler. While he was an academic, he was also a wrestler, and felt he could have done great damage -- if he had only known. I remember watching him shake over the memory, and the only words I could offer him were that he couldn't have known -- and wrestling doesn't give you the skill to kill someone in seconds. Please don't take this as a jab at your mentor but did he talk about why he and others "didn't know"? After all, Kristalnacht for example was four years in the past at that point. I thought it was in 1938. |
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"Fe"wrote Paul F Austin wrote: "Howard Berkowitz" wrote One of my mentors took his doctorate in Germany. He told me that in, oh, 1937 or so, he was presented to Hitler. While he was an academic, he was also a wrestler, and felt he could have done great damage -- if he had only known. I remember watching him shake over the memory, and the only words I could offer him were that he couldn't have known -- and wrestling doesn't give you the skill to kill someone in seconds. Please don't take this as a jab at your mentor but did he talk about why he and others "didn't know"? After all, Kristalnacht for example was four years in the past at that point. I thought it was in 1938. Sorry, you're right. The anti-Jewish laws and policies started in 1933. |
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In article , "Paul F
Austin" wrote: "Howard Berkowitz" wrote One of my mentors took his doctorate in Germany. He told me that in, oh, 1937 or so, he was presented to Hitler. While he was an academic, he was also a wrestler, and felt he could have done great damage -- if he had only known. I remember watching him shake over the memory, and the only words I could offer him were that he couldn't have known -- and wrestling doesn't give you the skill to kill someone in seconds. Please don't take this as a jab at your mentor but did he talk about why he and others "didn't know"? After all, Kristalnacht for example was four years in the past at that point. You may be thinking of the "Night of the Long Knives," the 1934 purge of the SA and other inconvenient sorts. Kristallnacht was in 1938. I can't say I would have seen that as more than thuggery and lack of central control. Given the information I had at the time, would I have sacrificed myself -- for certainly that would happen -- to kill someone whose monstrosity was not yet well known? Remember that one of the issues of the SA purge was that they were running internment camps independently of the SS, police, etc. While the "euthanasia program" certainly preceded the Final Solution, the latter was formalized at the Wannsee Conference in 1942. |
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Scott Ferrin wrote in message . ..
On 1 Jun 2004 20:05:13 -0700, (WaltBJ) wrote: A series of sonic booms would sure as hell wake up Pearl Harbor. Is a Beagle able to carry Harpoons? The Korean ones will carry the SLAM-ER but the impression I get is that your standard E can't. AFAIK the B-52 is the only USAF aircraft that can carry them. F-15E can carry SLAM ER. In fact, an F-15E is being used to do SLAM ER integration testing while the F-15K is in work. But there is a lot of inter-service politics and the Air Force does not want SLAM ER on F-15E because it is paying a lot of money to develop the similar JASSM missile. If SLAM ER was put on F-15E, it could be called JSLAM-ER and Congress might mandate that the superior JSLAM-ER, developed by the Navy, replace JASSM. The Air Force is still smarting from the Navy's Tomahawk taking over some of the land attack role, and it doesn't want the Navy SLAM-ER to repeat that embarassment. BTW I was one surprised 104 driver when my AIM9B growled nice and loud at a C47. Coming in from the portside low it had a good look at #1's exhaust stack. But then it was first conceived as a kamikaze-killer. Walt BJ |
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Scott Ferrin wrote in message . ..
On 1 Jun 2004 20:05:13 -0700, (WaltBJ) wrote: A series of sonic booms would sure as hell wake up Pearl Harbor. Is a Beagle able to carry Harpoons? The Korean ones will carry the SLAM-ER but the impression I get is that your standard E can't. AFAIK the B-52 is the only USAF aircraft that can carry them. F-15E can carry SLAM ER. In fact, an F-15E is being used to do SLAM ER integration testing while the F-15K is in work. But there is a lot of inter-service politics and the Air Force does not want SLAM ER on F-15E because it is paying a lot of money to develop the similar JASSM missile. If SLAM ER was put on F-15E, it could be called JSLAM-ER and Congress might mandate that the superior JSLAM-ER, developed by the Navy, replace JASSM. The Air Force is still smarting from the Navy's Tomahawk taking over some of the land attack role, and it doesn't want the Navy SLAM-ER to repeat that embarassment. BTW I was one surprised 104 driver when my AIM9B growled nice and loud at a C47. Coming in from the portside low it had a good look at #1's exhaust stack. But then it was first conceived as a kamikaze-killer. Walt BJ |
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Scott Ferrin wrote in message . ..
On 1 Jun 2004 20:05:13 -0700, (WaltBJ) wrote: A series of sonic booms would sure as hell wake up Pearl Harbor. Is a Beagle able to carry Harpoons? The Korean ones will carry the SLAM-ER but the impression I get is that your standard E can't. AFAIK the B-52 is the only USAF aircraft that can carry them. F-15E can carry SLAM ER. In fact, an F-15E is being used to do SLAM ER integration testing while the F-15K is in work. But there is a lot of inter-service politics and the Air Force does not want SLAM ER on F-15E because it is paying a lot of money to develop the similar JASSM missile. If SLAM ER was put on F-15E, it could be called JSLAM-ER and Congress might mandate that the superior JSLAM-ER, developed by the Navy, replace JASSM. The Air Force is still smarting from the Navy's Tomahawk taking over some of the land attack role, and it doesn't want the Navy SLAM-ER to repeat that embarassment. BTW I was one surprised 104 driver when my AIM9B growled nice and loud at a C47. Coming in from the portside low it had a good look at #1's exhaust stack. But then it was first conceived as a kamikaze-killer. Walt BJ |
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