Arf, applauds.
Well said Mr Rodent. How hard would it be for Johnny Afghan to hit a Marine commando in Arbroath from Helmand?
This is why I frequent your abode.
Not to be picky; but there is gravity in a vacuum. There is no air but there is gravity.
There is, however, very little gravity in space. Though as was pointed out on QI, a) pencils wouldn't work, cos of bits breaking off and floating around getting into delicate machinery / people's eyes, and b) actually, ordinary ballpoints work perfectly well in zero gravity, rendering the American space pen an even bigger waste of money than was thought. (Though I suppose being able to write upside down when there IS gravity is pretty neat.)
"This proposal is conditional on several factors, the most important being that I'll go back to the drawing board and start from scratch if the Powers That Be have, at long last, come up with some kind of detailed proposal or set of commands for achieving victory"
Does anybody even have a viable working definition of this "victory" we're supposedly trying to achieve? Preferably with some sort of specific, objective metrics, so that we can tell if we've achieved it?
Successful warfare step 1: define your war goals.
Even the underpants gnomes had a better plan - at least they knew what they were trying to achieve. Fuck it, Wile E. Coyote could come up with a better plan.
Mild annoyance at elementary errors offset by basic truth of story - it all balances out in the end.
Slightly concerned that I've stopped attracting the OMFG the leftist traitors want us to stop fighting unwinnable wars without a plan links from nutters that I used to get - either I've dropped off the wingnut radar, or Afghanistan isn't making them as crazy as Iraq did.
I'm pretty sure that there was a headline saying "Will Afghanistan be Obama's Vietnam?" in my Guardian Weekly recently.
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