" If you plow your guns into plows, you will be plowing for those that didn't'

[BruSan]

Originally Posted by Glitch

Winter works best for Alaskan civilians, nmot the military. We are use to the winters here, the US military is not. They send troops to Fort Greely and Fort Wainwright for cold weather training. Alaskans are already acclimated to the climate and the conditions in Alaska.

Without fuel, beans, bullets, and band-aids, the military would run out of supplies quickly. They would be overwelmed in short order.

As would Alaska if any effective embargo were implemented. Where would you get your beans bullets and band-aids from; Russia? You got your very own navy up there?

[whogo]

Originally Posted by Memphis1979

Conventional Bombs beat AR15's, hunting rifles, and handguns, most days.

So do nuclear weapons

Nuclear weapons are pretty useless in domestic warfare. Why have we not nuked the Taliban?

[baxendale]

Can I jump in on this?
"A bird in the hand gathers no moss"
"People in glass houses shoudn't get stoned"
"Some men are born to greatness, others have it thrust into them"

[BruSan]

Something else needs mention: are foreign powers just going to sit idly by and watch this internal U.S. strife or would they get involved in a myriad of clandestine ways. Would they indeed be more than willing to support an uprising OR assist in quelling one at the request of your sitting government. Can you say for sure?

Mexcio just going to sit there, looking askance at California ripe for the picking? might you folks have to watch your back door in Texas lest those angry Latinos take the opportunity to right a perceived ancient slight or two. Canada going to attempt to enforce a no-fly zone over it's sovereign territory if so, who might jump at the opportunity to help them enforce her borders, an ally or an enemy?

It'll never happen folks. The rebellion talk is limited to a bunch of whannabe's who will never leave the barca-lounger to threaten your standing military. Plinking soda cans on a fence row does not a rebel make.

[KUchief25]

"Heil Hitler"

Germany said it.

[jjwebbster]

Originally Posted by whogo

Nuclear weapons are pretty useless in domestic warfare. Why have we not nuked the Taliban?

Great question. Think it could have anything to do with the poppy (opium) farms ?? I always wondered why
the military didn't use that to pay for it's war. (I know, I know, it's way off topic)

[cruxan]

Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948

yes the us military is the almighty isnt it? yes that is why loosely connected bands of local militia with surplus russian weapons and cell phones have kicked our posterior for 10 years in the mideast isnt it?

if the military was off the chain we would have left there in the first few months, remember how fast we kick sadam's ass when no chains were attached..

[hotair2]

Originally Posted by HistorianDude

Actually, neither Jefferson nor Franklin ever said.

Yep, thread fail.

[Glitch]

Originally Posted by BruSan

As would Alaska if any effective embargo were implemented. Where would you get your beans bullets and band-aids from; Russia? You got your very own navy up there?

First, there is no such thing as an "effective" embargo. Second, Alaska already gets a great deal from Asia and other nations, and we sell our products to other nations as well (22 nations in total). Japan buys most of our fish, and we sell some oil to both Taiwan, South Korea, and Russia. There is no reason we could not buy products from Asia just as easily as the lower-48.

You may recall that it was a Russian tanker that supplied Nome, Alaska, with oil this past winter. I am more than willing to buy products from other countries, just to break the current monopoly Washington State seems to have on Alaska.

[Roaddog]

Nobody likes a chocolate cake more than a fat girl, yup I said it