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I've read a lot about Congo's civil war --don't remember much about Americans being involved, even as mercenaries. Unless you count the CIA's assassination of Moise Tshombe . . . the only real fighters there were the mercenaries. The Simbas ran away when they realized that the mercs' bullets...

Clancy's plan wasn't to have the Swiss running Jerusalem, it was the Swiss Guards--of the Vatican. Of course, in his book the IDF doesn't open fire on peaceful Palestinain protestors--what a crock.

The most powerful Christian faction, led by Michel Aroun, is actually allied with Hezbollah. The Druze won't fight unless they're attacked.

Grimm's just making stuff up again. Javitz lost the Republican primary to D'Amato. What does the general election have to do with that? Everyone with two eyes and two ears who was alive at the time knows why Javitz lost that primary--because of Camp David. Liberal Jews were ready to jump...

What does many mean? I've only counted two dead Israeli Arabs (both kids, I think--brothers; they were Christian too)--the news ALWAYS mentions it when Israeli Arabs die in the rocket attacks. One rocket, two dead by my count.

If Israel hadn't given back the Sinai: they wouldn't be getting that 5 billion dollars a year of American taxpayer money (3 billion dollars a year to both Israel and Egypt was the original deal--Egypt still only gets 3 though); they would still be at war with Egypt (Sadat might not've been...

Norwood makes that kick and the Bills don't see another Superbowl. I think Kelly is actually better off being 0-4 in the SB than he would be 1-0. Afterall, I notice that you didn't mention Jeff Hostetler--the winning QB of that game. Parcells would still be regarded as a genius just for...

The entire political leadership of the US are Domestic Enemies of the Constitution. Therefore, military people are required by their oath to overthrow that political leadership.

If the Bills had won the AFL champoinship that year (they lost 31-7), they'd've faced the Packers in SBI. The Bills stacked-up much better against the Packers: KC was the AFL's best offensive team (about 90 more points scored than Buffalo), but Buffalo's defense was head and shoulders above...

Corinth is the best place. Dig a canal through the city and ships can go from the Agean to the Adriatic without going through the Ionian.

There WAS a Great Man--Tenskawatana, Tecumseh's brother. He led the failed attack at Tippacanoe. He still had followers when died of old age in OTL. (I think a better ATL is that Tensky's plan worked and they managed to kill Harrison at the start of the attack. The newspapers would've...

But South Africa WAS occupying lands belonging to other nations, the Xhosa, Zulu, and several others (a nation is a cultural entity, not a political one)--the whites then granted the various tribes "independence," so that they could vote for the gov'ts in their "homelands" or bantustans without...

The situation isn't exactly the same: Israel still hasn't fully instituted the whole apartheid thing. The primary argument of the South African whites for not doing away with apartheid was the same: "If we allow the blacks to share power, they will kill us. There are too many bad feelings...

20 Years ago, everyone was saying that about South Africa. The Truth Commissions worked pretty well there . . ..

The next gun upgrade the USN actually puts on its ships will be electromechanically fired ones--they'll be propelled by flux.