Major McSally takes command :)

Jim Thomas wrote:

However, it is also true that trying to keep up with our
strategic weapons during the Reagan administration-- Peacekeeper,
Small ICBM, stealth technology, and others-- had no small part in
breaking the bear's budget and hastening the collapse of the Soviet
Union.

Let's not forget Mathias Rust


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"

On 10 May 2004 21:48:28 GMT, (BUFDRVR) wrote:

Ed Rasimus Wrote:

Snapping your fingers will keep the elephants away, if they aren't
coming anyway. Going where the elephant lives and kicking him in the
balls will get him to move out of the region.

In this case, the conventional world may have been kicking the elephant in the
nuts, but the nuclear guys had a knife at his throat allowing that to happen.

Without torturing the metaphor too much more, let me suggest that
while the blade was sharp, the willingness to be deluged by the
barrels of elephant blood that would have generated made it a fairly
certain thing that the slice wouldn't have occurred.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8

Ed Rasimus Wrote:

Without torturing the metaphor too much more, let me suggest that
while the blade was sharp, the willingness to be deluged by the
barrels of elephant blood that would have generated made it a fairly
certain thing that the slice wouldn't have occurred.


Not unless the elephant broke out his blade first. Rest assured, had the
elephant taken out his blade the deluge of blood would have been a secondary
concern. I herby declare this metaphor dead. Let me finish by saying Ed that I
believe the balance (however rough it was at times) between our conventional
force and our nuclear force combined to successfully win the Cold War.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"

(BUFDRVR) wrote:

Ed Rasimus Wrote:

Without torturing the metaphor too much more, let me suggest that
while the blade was sharp, the willingness to be deluged by the
barrels of elephant blood that would have generated made it a fairly
certain thing that the slice wouldn't have occurred.


Not unless the elephant broke out his blade first. Rest assured, had the
elephant taken out his blade the deluge of blood would have been a secondary
concern. I herby declare this metaphor dead. Let me finish by saying Ed that I
believe the balance (however rough it was at times) between our conventional
force and our nuclear force combined to successfully win the Cold War.

BUFDRVR

A very interesting little play...
--

-Gord.