Do Republicans Have a Plan for the Future?

[Stace]

Yeah, and when the enemy's EMP weapon obliterates all battlefield electronics and storms your position in a surpise maneuver, suddenly you're back to knifes, pistols, and clubs.

For some reason my submarine had quarterly drills on repelling boarders, and the orders were to grab any convenient blunt object and stand by the various access trunks with them. I preferred the fire axe, myself.

Funny how in the modern era the Navy still considers hand to hand fighting to be a concern. How good are you at swinging a axe?



I'm assuming your average woman the passed the military's watered-down-for-women physical requirements. And yeah, there's bull dykes out there stronger than many men. We're talking average females, average males, here. Don't start calling out the genetic freaks as some kind of proof.

Actually, I'm pretty handy with an axe......but that's neither here nor there, along with the rest of your post.......and this whole subject, as related to this thread. I'm already debating this issue on two other threads, that actually have some relevance to the thread topic.

 

[Scarecrow Akhbar]

Actually, I'm pretty handy with an axe......but that's neither here nor there, along with the rest of your post.......and this whole subject, as related to this thread. I'm already debating this issue on two other threads, that actually have some relevance to the thread topic.

I'm just marking time, waiting for a Republican to say if they have a plan for the future.

I may have missed a post, but I don't think any Republicans have had the gonads to post their party's blueprint for the future yet.

Wonder why that is?

 

[Stace]

I'm just marking time, waiting for a Republican to say if they have a plan for the future.

I may have missed a post, but I don't think any Republicans have had the gonads to post their party's blueprint for the future yet.

Wonder why that is?

Because aside from their usual plundering......they don't have one.

 

[Caine]

Isn't is just amazing how the illiterati can consider the current war as the only war, and that all wars will be the same? As if an enemy with an RPG and some automatic weapons can't pin a squad down and the sergeant is left with the choice of abandoning a wounded mate or hauling his ass out on his shoulders.

That could just never happen in today's warfare. :shock:

Damn, study the history of warfare. Sh!t happens. Damn, if my ship got nailed by a torpedo, I'd want my shipmate to haul my unconscious body out of the burning engineroom, not stand around wringing her hands waiting for the DC squad, which may not come.

The history has no influence in a debate on women in combat, since women are not in combat now, this must mean we are talking about the future.
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And, point in case for your first paragraph, all squads that leave the confines of a base leave with communications, and they would call whenever they recieve contact, and something that they call a "QRF" Quick Reaction Force, would drive out to thier location and give them backup.
In the case of awounded person during that time, they would usually get dragged to a place out of the way, rather than lifted up on a shoulder (rendering the soldier defenseless) just to move them a few feet.

 

[Scarecrow Akhbar]

I believe their are alot of republicans who do have a plan for the future. What I would like to see is a plan presented by each party on how to pay off the national debt.

1) Cut federal spending to the bare minimum. That means something on the order 3 trillion dollars in cuts and would include:

Ending Socialist Security
Ending the welfare society
Ending federal subsidies for art and other crap
Ending public subsidies for TV and Radio
Ending the War on Drugs
Closing the Departments of Agriculture, Education, Energy, and others, ending also all grants and loans programs and subsidies associated with them.

2) Figure out what the "debt" really is.

3) Sell federal assets, mostly land, to cover that debt. Camp Pendleton and the Presidio would bring in truckloads of money. So would other facilities in other high-value real estate markets.

Auction off all broadcast licenses held by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, should be worth billions.

With the end of the War on Drugs, implement sales and user taxes on non-prescription drugs to support rehab/treatment centers, and jails for drug abusers who can't stealing for their habits.

Establish other user fees for other functions people want, ie raise the drive-in rates at national parks until they're self-supporting. Citizens that don't go to Yellowstone shouldn't have to pay to keep it. Otherwise sell them to Disney and Six Flags.

When one reduces taxes on capital gains, the economy grows. Just a hint.

 

[Scarecrow Akhbar]

The history has no influence in a debate on women in combat, since women are not in combat now, this must mean we are talking about the future.
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And, point in case for your first paragraph, all squads that leave the confines of a base leave with communications, and they would call whenever they recieve contact, and something that they call a "QRF" Quick Reaction Force, would drive out to thier location and give them backup.
In the case of awounded person during that time, they would usually get dragged to a place out of the way, rather than lifted up on a shoulder (rendering the soldier defenseless) just to move them a few feet.

When the enemy is overrunning your position, many times the retreat is hundreds of yards if not miles. Depends on circumstances, which I haven't defined since the case is a general one and worst case circumstances should be considered.

 

[Caine]

When the enemy is overrunning your position, many times the retreat is hundreds of yards if not miles. Depends on circumstances, which I haven't defined since the case is a general one and worst case circumstances should be considered.

LOL......These insurgents don't 'overrun' positions... maybe your not getting it.

They aren't an Army whose purpose is to invade an occupy.
They focus on killing troops and Americans in the purpose of spreading "fear" or "terror". You probably don't know much about this conflict.

Now, in the case of women not being able to carry wounded men away from combat, tell that to these women.

If we hold all females that would obtain combat duty positions to the Male 17-21 PT standard, and ensure that during training they are capable of better physical abilities as even the weakest male, then by all means there is no reason for them to be denied.

 

[Scarecrow Akhbar]

LOL......These insurgents don't 'overrun' positions... maybe your not getting it.

They aren't an Army whose purpose is to invade an occupy.
They focus on killing troops and Americans in the purpose of spreading "fear" or "terror". You probably don't know much about this conflict.

You certainly don't "get it".

I'm discussing "war".

You're babbling about a minor conflict in a toilet. When you manage to get you head above the rim, you can see that the world is a far bigger place than you imagined and that there's a reason why the marines and the army still train on hand-to-hand combat.

You must think Iraq is the last war the US is going to get into, or that all future wars will be fought like Iraq was. Amusing, but ignorant.

 

[Caine]

You certainly don't "get it".

I'm discussing "war".

You're babbling about a minor conflict in a toilet. When you manage to get you head above the rim, you can see that the world is a far bigger place than you imagined and that there's a reason why the marines and the army still train on hand-to-hand combat.

You must think Iraq is the last war the US is going to get into, or that all future wars will be fought like Iraq was. Amusing, but ignorant.

Nope, never said that. I thought we were on the issue of Iraq and The Republicans Plan for the future, so when speaking about women in combat, I was referring to in THIS conflict.

To discuss the issue of women in combat in general, go to that thread with your sexist remarks. Its a poll.

 

[Napoleon's Nightingale]

I answered no because the Republicans have forwarded policies without thinking about their implications for the future. First it was the Patriot Act and now Newt Gingrich is running around saying that we should expand the powers of the executive branch. Then we have the border control issue. Bush promised several times to do something about it but so far nothing has been done on the federal level to plug our porous borders. To be fair, I don't believe the democrats have or will ever do anything about it either because everyone wants those precious latino votes. Then we have the war in Iraq which has become a long term commitment which seemingly has no end..I also tie it into the massive and inexcusable spending practices of the GOP particurally spending billions to give 25 million Iraqis free universal healthcare for a year and other outrageous expenditures related to the war. The GOP must think that the taxpayers have a bottomless purse and deficit continues to rise by the billions. I also don't like the fact that the president is using scaretactics ie if we don't do exactly what he says we're all going to die at the hands of terrorists (which sounds more like a threat than a warning) to counter progress with the Patriot Act's revision amoung other things. They're not thinking about our future..they're thinking about the present. Thats the difference between democrats and republicans.

 

[vergiss]

I was attacked by a man once - and won. Despite being 5'2" and 110 lb.

Do not underestimate the power of learnt technique and adrenaline.