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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: unclewest who wrote (113046)5/9/2005 8:24:54 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793647
 
In two or three of your rebuttals, you explained my experience was and is a handicap to me when evaluating combat Operations.

Your "bald-faced" assertion that I said something doesn't make it so.

One more time, your experience, your preoccupation with combat operations, is a handicap in grasping that I was not talking about combat operations, a subject I know nothing about, have no interest in, and about which I do not even hold let alone express opinions. Your experience is also a handicap in grasping the regard of the rest of us for the Israeli experience with terrorism.

You explained, on the other hand, yourself being unencumbered with such knowledge and experience could certainly see more clearly to make wiser technical decisions, than I, on matters like which unit would be the best to use when attacking terrorists at a German AF Base in 1972.

You continue to make stuff up.

Yet you find me unqualified or at least not technically capable to make comments worth listening to about SF Operations at the time, including what SF units and other units had the proper gear, organized units and training to take down that group of terrorists, so you routinely tune me out.

Where did you ever find a shoulder chip that big?

I carefully read your comments about the SF operations at the time, which BTW are not what I meant by "technical." I found them very credible, just irrelevant to the subject I raised. Please don't confuse my dismissal of your off-target points with lack of respect for your expertise on the subject. When arguing an issue, I'm usually pretty efficient. I sift through extraneous points and look for on-point rebuttal. My doing so does not imply disrespect for your experience in the extraneous subject area you introduced.

I have been sharing your comments with other SF veterans... They luv it.

Of course, if you refer it to others with the same preoccupation, they will give my words the same narrow read. I also shared with a couple of friends and they were dismayed by your inability to accept the simple logic that a successful hostage rescue is conclusive evidence of the capacity for hostage rescue. (BTW, my friends don't laugh at or make fun of others.)

I've had enough of your imagination. If you care to refute my actual arguments rather than your distorted read of my arguments, I'll engage. Otherwise, I'm not interested.
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