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Originally posted by fastpat
Yes, I like expensive military hardware too, lots of fun.
Still, it's just more machine gunning the natives because they can't stop you. As the British troopers used to say in Africa, "We shall not fear the Hottentot because we have the Maxim gun and they have not".
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Fair fights are for the movies Pat.
If they could "machine gun" us from the heavens, they would too.
"When you lie dying on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, and go to your God like a soldier."
~Kipling
Platforms like the AC-130 exist to make sure no American poet ever has to write a poem like that about our boys.