CAS aircraft are on the back-burner till some major military force looses a large amount of grunts becasue there are no aircraft that can loiter and strike and restrike a mobile enemy force that is turning a ground force into candidates for body bags.

There are tactical victories, and strategic victories. You clearly have no understanding of which is which.

NO You are ignorant of the fact that had Nixon not screwed himself up it is well known here that Ford was a incompetent replacement.

Those who knew Nixon say had he remained president the result for South and North Vietnam would have been totally different.
As I said, the N. Vietnamese leader knew how U.S. politics operated and used it to his advantage.

Cambodia paid the penalty for the failure of U.S. politicians.

Maybe the problem as they see it isn’t so much that there is a black on black crime problem (if they didn’t have access to guns…;o)) but that the US police appear to withdraw their guns and fire them for the simplest of reasons. They are almost like a toddlers security blanket – something to grip on to when there is a scarey problem. Worldwide there will always be a lot more interest in a story with a video of a cop shooting a man in the back for running away from a traffic stop, complete with the false claim that he had made a grab for the officer’s weapon, which makes police all over the world look like they were in on the lie. Man shoots other man outside a bar happens all the time, but the cops being caught out and seen to be caught out is newsworthy.

Wasting my time telling you this, but the others who read it can make their own minds up so don’t forget that when slinging racial stereotypes around…

There has been a problem with the way law officers are trained for long, long, long time. The first people to tell me this were former policemen and sheriffs.

One said they have to deprogram them when they come out of the academy but at the same time the politicians who control the police force have taken away the discretion officers used to have in enforcing the law. They are told my way or the highway.
If two gents had a scuffle, it used to be the law would tell them unless they want to be arrested to go home and cool off; now, even when the fact is obvious and witnesses loudly cry so, BOTH are handcuffed and arrested and taken to jail.
I am not saying that law enforcement in the country is not becoming the very thing some movies show from utopian societies where every thing is illegal but guns are not the heart of the problem nor a major factor in changing how police work is done.

Gen YEager retired in 75, not 1997 and he spent the last few active years as an adviser to the Pakistani Gov.

His last command of a US unit ended in 71, prior to the F-16 ro F-16 goring IOC, so he had no experience with them.

The only thing he did post 75 was maintain his active flight status, which was more political than anything else.

Yeager is fully retired from military test flying, after having maintained that status for three decades after his official retirement from the Air Force. On October 14, 1997, on the 50th anniversary of his historic flight past Mach 1, he flew a new Glamorous Glennis III, an F-15D Eagle, past Mach 1. The chase plane for the flight was an F-16 Fighting Falcon piloted by Bob Hoover, a legendary air-show pilot who had been Yeager’s wingman for the first supersonic flight.

He flew the F-20 and and the F-15 so why would he not have flown the F-16?

Yeager was an active Air Force pilot, not just a desk jocky untill he retired in 1997, he is not ignorant of the capabilities of U.S. aircraft that have seen combat, i.e. the F-15 and f-16 as he has flown both and not in the back seat.

I thought RpR had disappeared up his own Motherf**king ass. Never mind perhaps he will be a victim in the next mass killing.

No that trick is yours and yours alone.
Now have at it, you are so good at it.

What it does do though, which you can not deny, is to show exactly what I was talking about before in sharp relief. The earlier attacks I mentioned were no more ‘islamic’ than the guy in Japan with his victims. They were nutjobs out on their own agenda and that agenda was their own secular grievance….denied asylum….mass-killer fixation….etc.

OK, please, what is your proof that what you say here is fact other than your wishful thinking?

What about the freedom of those who were the targets and their right not to be killed? Or does that not count if it infringes on the rights of gun owners?

I put such a silly notion of freedom in the same category as those killed in a accident by a driver who is not legally intoxicated, go to the hospital and die due to medical errors, etc.;
life is a bitch, get used to it.

Do not give me some numbers that are the same as saying life does not matter till at least x die from it, as that is the same as saying till x die from it you do not count.