RE: Merc Guild

Keep in mind, those same Shermans fought in armies that beat back Tigers
and Panthers.  Your comments aren't getting any less revolting, mind
you.

Eli

>Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:36:42 -0800 (PST)
> John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> RE: Merc Guild
gzg-l@csua.berkeley.eduReply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>
>
>--- Bob Makowsky <rmakowsky@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> John,
>> 
>> I listen to you on this list and hold my replies but
>> I have to respond to
>> this.  It may be that all Arabs that you have met or
>> know of are poor
>> tankers.  However this does not mean that "All
>> Arabs" are poor tankers.
>
>When was the last time an Arab nation won a tank
>fight?  Fer crying out loud, they can't beat Israelis
>driving Shermans with T-55s and the advantage of
>numbers.  They have brigades chopped up by AMX-13
>batallions.  The Lybian tankers got clobbered by
>Chad--who's main force units were driving Toyota
>pickup trucks with Milan launchers bolted to the beds.
> And the performance of the Iraqi Army was so bad that
>the only troops who were even slowed by their defenses
>were Syrians and Egyptians.  
>
>Sure, there are US tankers of Arab descent--but the
>vast majority of them are no more culturally Arab than
>I am.
>
>John
>
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