American Aircraft Carrier To Arrive In Phuket

[Payboy]

I played battleships with a group of sailors in Sydney once.

I guess the term "hard astern" popped up often during this game.

[SimonGruber]

When sailor come I am very happy

[iSabai]

Bad enough to be expending Trillions of USD on frivolous wars in the Middle East, when the US Taxpayer is continually being hammered by all the corrupt US Politicians. Better to spend that sort of discetionary US Navy Personnel Incomes in a place that actually appreciates, instead of exploits the ever gullible US Government. Send those sailors home and cut back all US Military spending drastically. It might improve the US financial outlook, which currently indicates severe bankruptcy. Even the Thai Baht is a better currency than the decrepit USD.

The military complex is a huge employer. Unemployment would skyrocket at a time when it is already high. Military spending can be cut by making a more effective, streamlined, technological military with less money. More oversight and budgetary discretion on projects that clearly wast money or are impractical would also help greatly. (Think Bradley)

US Navy is bigger than the next ten largest Navies combined. Politics aside, it's necessary in todays world as much as ever. Now, as long as we can keep republicans out of the white house so they can't lie and fabricate to create any more imaginary reasons for wars.

I agree. The democrats are far better at lying and fabricating. Your Mr. Obama has certainly been a man of his word.

[NomadJoe]

Bad enough to be expending Trillions of USD on frivolous wars in the Middle East, when the US Taxpayer is continually being hammered by all the corrupt US Politicians. Better to spend that sort of discetionary US Navy Personnel Incomes in a place that actually appreciates, instead of exploits the ever gullible US Government. Send those sailors home and cut back all US Military spending drastically. It might improve the US financial outlook, which currently indicates severe bankruptcy. Even the Thai Baht is a better currency than the decrepit USD.

The military complex is a huge employer. Unemployment would skyrocket at a time when it is already high. Military spending can be cut by making a more effective, streamlined, technological military with less money. More oversight and budgetary discretion on projects that clearly wast money or are impractical would also help greatly. (Think Bradley)

US Navy is bigger than the next ten largest Navies combined. Politics aside, it's necessary in todays world as much as ever. Now, as long as we can keep republicans out of the white house so they can't lie and fabricate to create any more imaginary reasons for wars.

I agree. The democrats are far better at lying and fabricating. Your Mr. Obama has certainly been a man of his word.

That's just the problem, I sometimes wish Dems were as crafty and diabolical as the republicans. The GOP are such good liers, I think sometimes even they believe their own lies. Obama has been blocked at every stage of the game during his presidency. Wether a law o policy was good for the country or not, the GOP would block it to make him look incompetent. The easiest way to understand this is to look at Paul Ryans RNC speech. Not only full of i inaccuracies but also several charges against Obama that he himself is actually guilty of, namely he:

"Accused President Obama’s health care law of funneling money away from Medicare “at the expense of the elderly.” In fact, Medicare’s chief actuary says the law “substantially improves” the system’s finances, and Ryan himself has embraced the same savings.

"Accused Obama of doing “exactly nothing” about recommendations of a bipartisan deficit commission — which Ryan himself helped scuttle."

- FactCheck.org is a non-partisan, nonprofit website that describes itself as a "'consumer advocate' for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.

[SeaVisionBurma]

This thread still going? Thought the carrier group would have been long gone..... Why not start a new thread - can't see a single reference to Phuket or the arrival of an American aircraft carrier (2 weeks ago) in the posts above....

[LivinginKata]

Oh well - if this topic is going to spin off into US politics then