The Worst Jobs in History - The Maritime Age - Part 3

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[electropopprincess]

thats because hes not a member of the american army. hes a writer and broadcaster. (and not as young as he used to be)

and not a big fan of heights :)

[ellie9311]

tony is 62 years old also he is abit scared of heights also he has never done this before, i was in tony shoes i wouldn't be able to manage either

[elevanesc]

As an American, Tony has taught me two new vocabulary words on this show:

1) knackered

2) manky

[Jcolinsol]

@MikeTMerciless

Case in point.

[MikeTMerciless]

@Jcolinsol "For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." - Marcus Cicero

[MikeTMerciless]

@Jcolinsol "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."

continued...

[MikeTMerciless]

@Jcolinsol Not paranoid when the enemy themselves admit to doing so. Also, it's not paranoid when you understand just how asymmetrical warfare works when it does. The target isn't necessarily the soldiers or the bureaucracies, but those that support them financially and politically. Subversion is often a great alternative when you cannot viably defeat the enemy on the battlefield, because it erodes the enemy from within, makes him doubt himself, and distracts him from ultimate victory.

[Jcolinsol]

@MikeTMerciless

That is a terribly paranoid perspective.

[MikeTMerciless]

@Jcolinsol Now, I know that last message sounded harsh, but that is the nature of assymmetrical warfare. The target of the guerrillas is not an enemy army. That would be suicidal. The '68 Tet Offensive was a tactical failure at every level. But not even the NVA could count on the likes of Walter Cronkite and the Democrats in Washington to undermine the American war effort in Vietnam. Because that was instrumental in their success, not anything they ever did militarily.

[MikeTMerciless]

@Jcolinsol cont...because we have elements who do not want us to do what is effective, to make the war as short as possible, to do what it takes to see our enemies for who and what they are accurately and defeat them, we won't win. Because that is precisely what the guerrillas count on. In other words, the target for their agenda is YOU, or those who hold opinions like yours. They count on this fundamental lapse of character. Because otherwise, they could never win.

[MikeTMerciless]

@Jcolinsol cont....See, what we have going on in America is an element that desires desperately to see America fail for various and altogether mythical reasons. Because, in truth, if we were less cordial to the enemy as we have already been, al Qaeda and the Taliban would've been destroyed, its leaders and their families ruthlessly murdered, and the government leaders that support such elements would also be dead. But because of subversive elements who tie our hands behind our backs...cont.

[MikeTMerciless]

@Jcolinsol No. Winning a guerrilla war means that the enemy must eventually give up. That means that the enemy must be willing on some level to concede the field. Guerillas, believe it or not, have rarely been successful against a foe that's not only determined, but strong and got their act together because they know what they want. The problem with America is that we have subversive elements in our culture that would not want us to know anything about what we want wherever we go....cont.