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Lurker Deluxe

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21. Yea ... they being the key word.

Tue Aug 6, 2013, 03:48 PM

Aug 2013

They ...

Iran? No

Iran and Syria? No?

Who? Hellifiknow. But it would surely be a they.

A sneak attack? Doubtful. A direct attack? Even more doubtful.

Some sort of planed diversion which leads to an incredible chain of mistakes that leaves a carrier vulnerable and a lucky attack by "them" which somehow leads to the vessel being damaged enough that is eventually scuttled? Good luck with that.

"they take out an aircraft carrier" would most likely leave them in such bad shape militarily that the US would not need to retaliate more than simply putting another vessel in the same spot and offering up a "round two?" sign.

A direct hit by a modern nuke would not sink a super carrier, which is all we have floating now. Attacking it with conventional means is suicide by anyone less than ... well, us.

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If you, apropo of nothing, bomb one of our aircraft carriers, you have declared war on us. [View all] closeupready Aug 2013 OP

And we will nuke your children. Phillyindy Aug 2013 #1

Not necessarily, but if you are imposing thousands of casualties closeupready Aug 2013 #2

You just justified Phillyindy Aug 2013 #4

The decision to nuke civilians in another country was certainly popular here. Orsino Aug 2013 #13

Just to get the facts correct, Jenoch Aug 2013 #3

Real Nice. Way to ruin a perfectly good nonsensical rant. cleanhippie Aug 2013 #5

I thought so, perhaps the OP should check their history quinnox Aug 2013 #6

I think it's a warning to Syria and/or Iran.... Junkdrawer Aug 2013 #9

Yea ... they being the key word. Lurker Deluxe Aug 2013 #21

It wasn't over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor nt geek tragedy Aug 2013 #11

True we got lucky that they went after the battleships. Rex Aug 2013 #12

They sank the Arizona nadinbrzezinski Aug 2013 #18

I understood his point as well. Jenoch Aug 2013 #20

That logic can go both ways cpwm17 Aug 2013 #7

Really? We should have taken 911 as just due for our "aggressive foreign actions" treestar Aug 2013 #16

No, I'm saying what Osama did to the towers and the US did to cities in Japan are both terrorism cpwm17 Aug 2013 #17

They bombed everything but our aircraft carriers--they bombed the United States itself. nt geek tragedy Aug 2013 #8

America started a war and invaded a country under false pretenses quinnox Aug 2013 #10

NONE of our carriers were at Pearl that day. hobbit709 Aug 2013 #14

Don't bomb Pearl Harbor... awoke_in_2003 Aug 2013 #15

How about blowing up passenger jets or murdering elected officials CBGLuthier Aug 2013 #19

Actually, the OP is understating reality. Socal31 Aug 2013 #22