Jack,

Snip the self-agrandizing rhetoric.

My first post to this subject challenged the previous poster to substantiate
his assertion which contradicted my empirical experiences. The subsequent
responses to my first post have been littered with opinion and emotion, and
have lacked objectivity. Furthermore, none of them have substantiated the OP's
emotional assertion. Nor have you.

I have made the point that danger is not an absolute concept, but a relative
one. None of the posts addressed this point. The responses, including yours,
miss this salient point.

Your post lacks civility, something that frequent visitors to this newsgroup
observe with regularity from certain other posters who have established their
poor reputations. At the least, it is insulting (is this deliberate?), and it
borders on being imflamatory and a personal attack. You would do well to adopt
a more conciliatory tone in your postings. Furthermore, if you wish to offer
your personal military flying experiences as a basis to defend a position that
you care to assert on this subject, then all of us could benefit from them.




Kurt Todoroff


Markets, not mandates and mob rule.
Consent, not compulsion.