ORIGINAL: Ursa MAior
Well it is 3.50 AM here and I am lazy to dig up your 'We can be arrogant we have a scoreboard message' but this does not fit into what you imply above along with rune's first comment to my post starting with you are a nazi. You get back -bile and stuff- what you, Doggie and co started spitting. As of best the thread is called favorite.
IMHO if a weapon system makes the enemy scared beyond rational it is THE BEST since it has achived its purpose without even appearing on the battlefield see tank shock in WWI.
well I was stating that we can afford to be arrogant we have scoreboard, since "Yankee arrogance" seems to be the EUtopian starting position as regards my nation. Further I could not really give less of a damn what the majority of posters feel as regards my nation in their fits of picque and jealousy at our power. Never ceases to amuse me that in order for the US to get "allies" we are expected to prostrate ourselves and damn near apologize that we were attacked on 9/11.
It was a ludicrous baseline that had its start here on 9/11 as our buildings were smoldering. Kind EUtopians were explaining that "you guys sort of deserved it", "maybe this will teach you humility", and "our job now is to make sure the Americans don't respond". The pity is/was that the archives lack those charming positions as one of our "evil little crew's" favorite pastimes was throwing those words back in our "betters'" faces after the dust settled.
So now we get to the point that the US deserves to lose the GWoT because I am not ashamed we won ww2, do not have the proper deference to older cultures, etc etc etc. Well "ok", this may shock you but it is not as if EUtopia has a lot more to offer other than moral cover, and cheerleading for the most part. There are several nations in Europe who are doing a workman's job of helping us their ally and there are several who "forgot their honor in their other pants".
Beneath it all I am ashamed that our leadership sold your nation and other Eastern European nations down the river to Ivan instead of killing the snake quickly. Of course it is oddly enough the same party preaching restraint, the same side of the ideological pole who valued peace over all that sold the future Warsaw pact down the river back in the '40s. Turns out the communists had infiltrated our senior leadership to the point it may as well have been called "the Uncle Joe State Department Auxilla".
There is good and there is evil on this Earth and if there is one lesson my perusal of history has taught me over the years it is that when you do not deal with evil evil deals with you. The United States while not perfect, does not immobilize itself with endless navelgazing or self-delusory intonations that evil can ALWAYS be bargained with. You seem fond of faux orientalist pith allow me to respond with my personal favorite from Cao Cao, "I would rather betray the whole world than allow the world to betray me."
He got scoreboard as well.
