January 30, 2004

You Can't Make These Things Up

Let me get this straight: Belgium's Minister of Defense is criticizing the US military for inefficiency:

According to Flahaut: "The Americans throw so much money at their army that it simply can no longer act efficiently. If they have to get fifteen men from point A to point B, they will use three planes to be certain that it succeeds. We would send one plane, or even betterl [sic]: first examine if we cannot fly along with an ally'', says the minister.

Minister, Minister, what you fail to realize is that we don't just move 15 men (which is what? the entire strength of Belgium's deployable force?); we move 15000 - for a medium-sized deployment - and we then fight at the other end. It may not be efficient, but it is effective.

It must be nice to live in a country where the only threat you face is from yourself, since you have a large, powerful ally that protects you from the world, while you debase yourself in pointless criticism of irrelevant concerns.

Not that I'm bitter.

OK, maybe a little bitter.

Posted by Jeff at January 30, 2004 09:36 AM | Link Cosmos
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Sorry about the typo in the translation. I fixed it...

Posted by: Maarten Schenk on January 30, 2004 09:45 AM

Belgium would send one plane, because that's all they have!

And is he telling us the Belgiums car pool to war?

But hey, the Belgiums do know about efficiancy in war. The Germans rolled through in what - a week?

Posted by: Brian on February 2, 2004 01:48 PM

My God, stupidity rules here enormously! Do Americans really believe that they are the ones who protect Belgium and other "allied" countries from "evil"? If tomorrow they find oil in Belgium, Bush will immediately declare war and invade. Of course he will justify this with reports of mass destruction biological weapons found in Brussels (expired meat in McDonalds?). He asks Blair to support him and offers him a mansion in Texas. And later on request an audit about the misleading information he received. To cover his ass. In the meantime Haliburton is building oil rigs in Belgium.

Anyhow I personally think that the Belgian army is more cost efficient than the American army. And Belgians have a much lower casualty score in friendly fires.

Posted by: Joe on February 3, 2004 09:07 AM
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