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Originally posted by LtColCarter View PostDude...why would Puerto Rico participate in US elections?sigpic
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Originally posted by Ben 'Teal'c would WIN!!' Noble View PostThey are a US territory and can vote in primaries but not presidential elections.
Puerto Rico is an insular area — a United States territory that is neither a part of one of the fifty states nor a part of the District of Columbia. Insular areas, such as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam, are not allowed to choose electors in US presidential elections or elect voting members of the US Congress.sigpic
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Originally posted by LtColCarter View PostUmmm...no...
Puerto Rico is an insular area — a United States territory that is neither a part of one of the fifty states nor a part of the District of Columbia. Insular areas, such as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam, are not allowed to choose electors in US presidential elections or elect voting members of the US Congress.
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Originally posted by DigiFluid View PostI find the 'owning guns protects me from the gubmint!' absolutely hilarious. Yeah, it worked fine two hundred years ago when the hostile government was an ocean away and everyone over here was on home soil. But in an era of brilliantly trained special forces equipped with the most amazing military hardware known to man (ie: SAS, SEAL Team 6), the age of government-approved warrantless domestic spying, and the Wacos of modern history--the idea is ludicrous. Laughable at best.
Your ideas about warfare are outdated, you still think, as so many people do, in terms of 3rd generation warfare. Mechanised armies that win wars by defeating their opponent on the battlefield. But we now live in an age of 4th and 5th generation warfare, where the violent non state actors hide amongst civilian populations, use cyberwarfare and other unconventional tactics to bridge the gap in capabilities. A group of insurgents armed with rifles can be a major threat to a government, if they gains the support of even a relatively small part of the population they can integrate and hide themselves, becoming very difficult to deal with, without causing the rest of the population to side with the insurgents.
The elite special forces can kill many insurgents and their leaders, but that simply does not win the fight. If it did we would have won in Iraq and Afghanistan long ago. Shoot one insurgent and two more will remerge from the populace in their place. The centre of gravity in any insurgency is the support of the population for the insurgency, and in order to win you need to pull the two apart, once isolated from popular support an insurgency will wither and die. That means hearts and minds, reconstruction, something most militaries still aren't very good at. The insurgents simply force the fight down to their level, negating the advantages of your tanks, jets and special forces and makes you fight for the support of the populace instead.
Originally posted by Rudy Pena View Post
No, just no. IEDs cause way to much damage, you are welcome to such youtube and see how powerful they are and what it destroyes. Not to mention the shockwave can even kill people.
IEDs are nothing but pure terror tools.
Speaking as someone who was in a combat zone where IEDs are used, they scare the crap out of me. They are nothing people friendly, they cant tell friend from foe once its been planted. You would have to let every one in the area know there its at to they dont get killed.
They allow often poorly trained and equipped insurgents who could never win in a conventional fight a way to strike at the enemy without being hit back. If makes the conventional force get bogged down in long, difficult and often very demoralising operations in order to clear IEDs. It also leaves them weakened and open to further attacks such as snipers or ambushes.
The IEDs also have an effect on the civilian population, often they are planted in full view of them, but they do not report them, fearing reprisal from the insurgents. This, along with the feeling of being hit by a faceless enemy who hides amongst the populace, fuels anger and distrust of the civilian populace in the conventional forces, which in turn drives the civilians into the arms of the insurgents.
Its these capabilities that make IED's a key weapon in any successful insurgents arsenal.
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Originally posted by Goose View PostThey're not allowed to vote in Preseidential elections nor Congressional elections, you're right. But they are allowed to take part in primaries.sigpic
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Originally posted by LtColCarter View PostThat just seems stupid since they don't have a vote in the electoral college.
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Originally posted by LtColCarter View PostNo "perhaps" about it...its useless.
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Originally posted by mad_gater View PostI would also argue that instead of running here to the US people in these countries where conditions are so bad should take a page out of our book (dated 1776) and actually rise up against tyranny instead of just running away from it...our resources are not infinite.....we can't afford to just keep bringing in increasing numbers of foreign immigrants...it's why we have the system we do.....so that we can control the flow of people we accept....could the system use a little tweaking? sure but that's no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater
My point is that there will never be a solution where everyone will be happy.
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Originally posted by The Mighty 6 platoon View PostYour ideas about warfare are outdated, you still think, as so many people do, in terms of 3rd generation warfare. Mechanised armies that win wars by defeating their opponent on the battlefield. But we now live in an age of 4th and 5th generation warfare, where the violent non state actors hide amongst civilian populations, use cyberwarfare and other unconventional tactics to bridge the gap in capabilities. A group of insurgents armed with rifles can be a major threat to a government, if they gains the support of even a relatively small part of the population they can integrate and hide themselves, becoming very difficult to deal with, without causing the rest of the population to side with the insurgents.
The elite special forces can kill many insurgents and their leaders, but that simply does not win the fight. If it did we would have won in Iraq and Afghanistan long ago. Shoot one insurgent and two more will remerge from the populace in their place.
The centre of gravity in any insurgency is the support of the population for the insurgency, and in order to win you need to pull the two apart, once isolated from popular support an insurgency will wither and die. That means hearts and minds, reconstruction, something most militaries still aren't very good at.If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.- Abba Eban.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stor...tigation-.html This story just gets better and better.If you wish to see more of my rants, diatribes, and general comments, check out my Twitter account SirRyanR!
Check out Pharaoh Hamenthotep's wicked 3D renders here!
If you can prove me wrong, go for it. I enjoy being proven wrong.
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Originally posted by lordofseas View Posthttp://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stor...tigation-.html This story just gets better and better.sigpicOhhhhhhhh WHAM BAM THANK YOU MA'AM
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Originally posted by LT. COL. John Sheppard View Posti haven't got time to read it all but it is about voting and campaigning right?If you wish to see more of my rants, diatribes, and general comments, check out my Twitter account SirRyanR!
Check out Pharaoh Hamenthotep's wicked 3D renders here!
If you can prove me wrong, go for it. I enjoy being proven wrong.
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Worship the Zefron. Always the Zefron.
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