Sorry for my rant, I’m sure I’ll get crucified for it, but as one of the members on the forum who likely has more enemies than friends here…. ….

That’s not true Coop, people on this forum who are genuine aviation enthusiasts respect those who post interesting threads that add to our aviation knowledge (someone springs to mind…;) ) . Also, I would add there must be only a tiny handful who don’t actually like the US or Americans (don’t ask me why:p) but there is also a fair number that see nothing wrong with disagreeing with some aspects of US foreign policy (no different from some Americans who do the same thing!).

You have to stand up to tyranny and oppression and terror or they will never go away….

I agree with you. However, I would also add that I voted for Blair (:eek: ) but I admit I was taken in and in hindsight would not vote for him again. Similarly, only a few Americans were against the Viet Nam war in the beginning in the late sixties (pinko liberal degenerates!…) but the general consensus by 1975 came to be that it was a good thing for the US to pull out and stop the losses at 50,000 servicemen.