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2020-01-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-07 02:11|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Jesus that's a lot. What the fuck? What are we, World Police? Nope.

"vital to American interests in the region"

We don't *have* any interests in the region. Not any more. We're self-sufficient in oil and those dirty camel-fuckers can choke on their dirty crude while we develop electric cars. Looking forward to seeing them fall back to poverty and irrelevance.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-01-07 06:37|| 2020-01-07 06:37|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm with Herb. If the camel-etc. thought English was hard, wait til they try to learn Mandarin.

Posted by Mercutio 2020-01-07 06:56|| 2020-01-07 06:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Jane you slut! How many?

Posted by Punky Wheregum8959 2020-01-07 08:57|| 2020-01-07 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Why round numbers for every entry on the chart except Oman, which is listed at 606 headcount?

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-07 08:58|| 2020-01-07 08:58|| Front Page Top

#5 ..cause its +/- some at anyone time due to rotations, tdy, med evac, et al.

So, I take it the Israelis have taken full manning of the Patriot systems in country and no MAG teams?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-07 09:28|| 2020-01-07 09:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Really not that many. The US combat division is usually 12,000-18,000. Most of those are base personal and defense units. Having 7,000 soldiers to run an air force base is normal.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-01-07 11:03|| 2020-01-07 11:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Trump administration's decision in October, which has decimated their numbers from an estimated 2,000 in September to currently around 800

Dumbshit "Journolist" might wanna look up "decimated" in a dictionary

Posted by Frank G 2020-01-07 11:08|| 2020-01-07 11:08|| Front Page Top

#8 "which has ~~decimated~~ (du-ified??) their numbers from an estimated 2,000 in September to currently around 800"

Posted by Lex 2020-01-07 11:26|| 2020-01-07 11:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Wait, don't sell the wunderkinds short. I'm sure they use "literally decimated" for the legacy meaning.

Also (haven't checked, but I'm probably the millionth person to suggest it... sure miss the old days when you couldn't walk to the outhouse without stubbing your toe on a hapax): destimate.

Posted by Harry Lover of the Gepids1344 2020-01-07 14:31|| 2020-01-07 14:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Decimate... *SIGH* it was during the frenzied stories about Hurricane Katrina that it was forcibly brought to my attention the linguistic drift of the term "decimate". No, "1 in 10" has become an archaic definition™ ....

Posted by magpie 2020-01-07 17:24|| 2020-01-07 17:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah, "decimated"? Come on. Enough of the hyperbole. "Reduced [by 40%]" would have worked just fine...maybe kinda-sorta "drastically reduced" to be nice.

Posted by DooDahMan 2020-01-07 17:30|| 2020-01-07 17:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Foxnews has breaking: missile attacks on US troops across Iraq.

Posted by Frank G 2020-01-07 18:24|| 2020-01-07 18:24|| Front Page Top

#13 I just threw up a post on it, Frank G...

Posted by Raj 2020-01-07 18:34|| 2020-01-07 18:34|| Front Page Top

#14 I had as well

Posted by Frank G 2020-01-07 18:39|| 2020-01-07 18:39|| Front Page Top

#15 Trash mine, then.

Posted by Raj 2020-01-07 18:40|| 2020-01-07 18:40|| Front Page Top

#16 TW can take care of mine. Yours already has comments

Posted by Frank G 2020-01-07 18:52|| 2020-01-07 18:52|| Front Page Top

#17 Frank G’s article deleted. Good job, both of you.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-07 22:39|| 2020-01-07 22:39|| Front Page Top

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