tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post5291748940911673822..comments2024-01-25T12:33:03.851+10:30Comments on Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is: NEOCONS WANT LIBYA TO BE A ‘WESTERN-STYLE DEMOCRACY’ – ENFORCED BY WESTERN BOOTS ON THE GROUNDDamian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-76197941197817772112011-08-28T11:38:54.848+09:302011-08-28T11:38:54.848+09:30So in the end the struggle is really about sex, dr...So in the end the struggle is really about sex, drugs and pop music. It better be, that is all they will get.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-79921702828468048452011-08-25T15:03:22.471+09:302011-08-25T15:03:22.471+09:30This notion is absurd and won't happen as the ...This notion is absurd and won't happen as the struggle to hold Afghanistan numbers attests.<br /><br />I was recently reading that the much vaunted U.S navy (invariably and repeatedly over-rated by the ill informed) is struggling in maintenance of its current ships, with rust buckets becoming the norm and even cannibalisation of parts to maintain some operational level.<br /><br />Reminds me of the rapid decline in the Royal navy in the post war years which went from some 11 carriers in the early 1950's to just HMS Hermes (commando/Anti sub/Harrier carrier) and old 'Rusty B' HMS Bulwark by the end of the 1970's before the Invincible class entered service.<br /><br />Doubtless the 'old boot' is just fantasising with troops entering Libya, with big cuts to the Pentagon soon to emerge as its economy flops about like a walrus trying to climb a step ladder!.<br /><br />Nylon ShirtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com