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War footing | 210 comments (210 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: The Halys thing again (none / 0)

Put them on planes and fly them out. Moving people is quick and easy, moving stuff isn't.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Oct 25th, 2007 at 05:47:57 PM EST
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Re: The Halys thing again (none / 1)

You do know that you're way into the Donald Rumsfeld mind-set, don't you? None of the military types that I've read on this matter are anywhere near as optimistic as you.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Oct 25th, 2007 at 05:54:27 PM EST
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Re: The Halys thing again (none / 1)

That's because they are thinking in a political (or you might say, reality-based) mind-set.

I'm here in the Genghiz Khan no restraint mindset.

The rest of the world would protest immensely against this kind of WW2/Vietnam blow everything up style, but since has worldwide protests fazed the Americans?

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Oct 25th, 2007 at 06:26:26 PM EST
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Re: The Halys thing again (none / 1)

Where are the planes going to land if there are big craters in the runway of Baghdad airport?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Oct 25th, 2007 at 06:04:15 PM EST
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Re: The Halys thing again (none / 0)

Repairing runways is SOP.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Oct 25th, 2007 at 06:35:40 PM EST
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Re: The Halys thing again (none / 1)

So is getting the crap blown out of you while you're waiting for a runway repair.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Oct 25th, 2007 at 09:22:59 PM EST
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Re: The Halys thing again (none / 0)

That's war for you.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Fri Oct 26th, 2007 at 12:39:30 PM EST
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