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Inflection is the rise and fall in pitch and the tone changes of the voice.
a. The preparatory command is the command that indicates movement. Pronounce each preparatory command with a rising inflection. The most desirable pitch, when beginning a preparatory command, is near the level of the natural speaking voice. A common fault with beginners is to start the preparatory command in a pitch so high that, after employing a rising inflection for the preparatory command, it is impossible to give the command of execution with clarity or without strain. A good rule to remember is to begin a command near the natural pitch of the voice.
Yes, bloody really!
I'd like to point out that inflecting is a verb , or something close to a verb, (kind of wished I'd payed attention in english class now so I could appear smart) and inflection is a noun .
I was keen to use this opportunity to multi-quote , but nope, I'm too stupid to use a button on a web page :(
One day I can be smart like...Frazzled.... and then I'll be a lawyer.... He's my idol
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Manchu - "But so what? The Bible also says the flood destroyed the world. You only need an allegorical boat to tackle an allegorical flood."
Shespits "Anything i see with YOLO has half naked eleventeen year olds Girls. And of course booze and drugs and more half naked elventeen yearolds Girls. O how i wish to YOLO again!"
Rubiksnoob "Next you'll say driving a stick with a Scandinavian supermodel on your lap while ripping a bong impairs your driving. And you know what, I'M NOT GOING TO STOP, YOU FILTHY COMMUNIST"
Inflection is the rise and fall in pitch and the tone changes of the voice.
a. The preparatory command is the command that indicates movement. Pronounce each preparatory command with a rising inflection. The most desirable pitch, when beginning a preparatory command, is near the level of the natural speaking voice. A common fault with beginners is to start the preparatory command in a pitch so high that, after employing a rising inflection for the preparatory command, it is impossible to give the command of execution with clarity or without strain. A good rule to remember is to begin a command near the natural pitch of the voice.
Yes, bloody really!
I'd like to point out that inflecting is a verb , or something close to a verb, (kind of wished I'd payed attention in english class now so I could appear smart) and inflection is a noun .
I was keen to use this opportunity to multi-quote , but nope, I'm too stupid to use a button on a web page :(
One day I can be smart like...Frazzled.... and then I'll be a lawyer.... He's my idol
Maybe I typo the "e" instead of the "i" being I use the word "inflect" more then the word "inflict" eh or
maybe I set you up to be a "Spelling Nazi"
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I think the spelling error is more likely, since half your posts are so riddled with them they are one step away from being unintelligible. He made light of an error of yours, then you tried to correct him on a joke he made about inflicting the pain of a US accent on them.
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motyak wrote: I think the spelling error is more likely, since half your posts are so riddled with them they are one step away from being unintelligible. He made light of an error of yours, then you tried to correct him on a joke he made about inflicting the pain of a US accent on them.
Motyak , you are right but never fear for I have skewered Jihadin with the lance-like power of my razor sharp mind. He reels before me using the Godwin defence in a pathetic effort to cast aside the shame of being beaten like the 20 week old turtle carcass hanging disconsolately in the the afternoon sun with it's fly-blown cloaca swinging in the wind that knows himself to be.
Manchu - "But so what? The Bible also says the flood destroyed the world. You only need an allegorical boat to tackle an allegorical flood."
Shespits "Anything i see with YOLO has half naked eleventeen year olds Girls. And of course booze and drugs and more half naked elventeen yearolds Girls. O how i wish to YOLO again!"
Rubiksnoob "Next you'll say driving a stick with a Scandinavian supermodel on your lap while ripping a bong impairs your driving. And you know what, I'M NOT GOING TO STOP, YOU FILTHY COMMUNIST"
I really hate to get on topic , but it always seems to me that for some reason the Sunni side of Islam seems to me to be more organised than the Shi'a one. I always thought Shi'a was the dominant sect but it appears I'm very wrong. I am quite concerned about a new Sunni state butting heads with Iran.
Manchu - "But so what? The Bible also says the flood destroyed the world. You only need an allegorical boat to tackle an allegorical flood."
Shespits "Anything i see with YOLO has half naked eleventeen year olds Girls. And of course booze and drugs and more half naked elventeen yearolds Girls. O how i wish to YOLO again!"
Rubiksnoob "Next you'll say driving a stick with a Scandinavian supermodel on your lap while ripping a bong impairs your driving. And you know what, I'M NOT GOING TO STOP, YOU FILTHY COMMUNIST"
Bullockist wrote: I really hate to get on topic , but it always seems to me that for some reason the Sunni side of Islam seems to me to be more organised than the Shi'a one. I always thought Shi'a was the dominant sect but it appears I'm very wrong. I am quite concerned about a new Sunni state butting heads with Iran.
It's why Iran is in Baghdad right now offering them military aid. They do not want ISIS taking control of the nation.
Manchu - "But so what? The Bible also says the flood destroyed the world. You only need an allegorical boat to tackle an allegorical flood."
Shespits "Anything i see with YOLO has half naked eleventeen year olds Girls. And of course booze and drugs and more half naked elventeen yearolds Girls. O how i wish to YOLO again!"
Rubiksnoob "Next you'll say driving a stick with a Scandinavian supermodel on your lap while ripping a bong impairs your driving. And you know what, I'M NOT GOING TO STOP, YOU FILTHY COMMUNIST"
While America was busy getting all hot and bothered about an American-for-Taliban prisoner exchange, the nation of Iraq has been collapsing. News broke from Iraq today that militants have seized the town of Tikrit almost without a fight. This comes on the heels of the fall of Mosul earlier this week to the same group—the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). For those without maps, Tikrit lies between Mosul, the second-largest city in the country, and Baghdad, the largest. Samarra could be next, and then the capital will be imperiled. Half a million Iraqis have been displaced since January. This is, no doubt, a historic foreign policy failure.
No one likes to think about Iraq anymore. If we did, people would know terrible things are brewing there and not be shocked by today's events. Now the nation is in crisis, and hundreds of thousands of war-weary people are once again on the front lines of revolution and repression. This time there is no major power to help them keep it together—unless Iran or (less likely) Turkey decides to move in.
Here are four things to consider as the bad news rolls in.
1. U.S. politicians are washing their hands of this—which is bad news for the Iraqi people.
Colin Powell's famous Pottery Barn rule about invasions—"you break it; you buy it"—assumes there are people in D.C. who feel obligated to make good on that promise. These days, there are not. Democrats will say, rightly, that a Republican administration made this mess by invading and mishandling the insurgency that followed. They will say Iraq was doomed to fail and support the Obama administration’s choice to pull troops from Iraq. Republicans will point out, rightly, that the Obama administration made a major error by leaving Iraq without a security agreement in place. This left Iraq without vital assistance. As recently as 2011 there was talk of leaving as many as 10,000 troops as training and intelligence assets; that could have helped keep the ISIL in check.
This is the worst situation for inspiring progress from Washington D.C. No one feels responsible, no one feels like salvaging the situation, and everyone can blame someone else. President Bush was willing to risk a new strategy in Iraq during his famous surge there, probably because his legacy was on the line. It worked. But now there's nothing to prompt a bold plan to help Iraq. Intervention is unlikely. The Iraq central government doesn’t seem to be a reliable partner. And so the winner is ISIL, which wants to create a theocratic caliphate, much like the one Al Qaeda dreamed of, and now controls wide swatches of Syria and Iraq. The losers are any U.S. personnel who fought and died for Iraq, and even more so, the Iraqis who supported democracy and equal rights in their nation.
2. This is linked to a wider mess in the Middle East, particularly Syria.
ISIL was founded in 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Iraqis didn’t like their bloodthirsty methods (even Al Qaeda complained against ISIL brutality) and thought the group was made of meddling foreigners. After some notable high ranking deaths, and flashes of political progress, the ISIL drifted into war-torn Syria to fight the regime of Bashar Assad.
ISIL made its terrible mark there, killing hundreds in other rebel groups, seizing territory from government control, and executing those who didn’t subscribe to their religious views. This is when Al Qaeda dumped them as a client, but ISIL was growing in clout and attracting a new crop of ambitious, super-religious adherents. They are now the top dog of the militant world.
3. The collapse of Iraq puts ISIS on the map. And they may not like how it feels.
A common enemy is one of the best way for two nations to forge a deeper relationship. The current Iraqi government is close to Iran; Tehran has had hooks in Iraq ever since Saddam fell, and supported insurgents during the U.S. occupation. On Wednesday, Iranian officials "extended Tehran's full support for the Iraqi government and security forces in their fight against the ISIL."
Being top dog is not a good thing. The ISIL will find itself hunted by Iran and its proxies, who are not known for fighting humanely. They can expect a full spectrum of war aimed their way: Warplanes and assassinations, spies and barrel bombs, helicopters and car bombs—the works.
4. This will inspire a Vietnam-esque narrative of failure.
Back in the U.S., the failure of Iraq will color military and political thinking in ways that will leave the nation less prepared for future fights. The lesson could go like this: Invasion only leads to chaos, and counter-insurgency is a dead doctrine because reliable partners are impossible to create within reasonable timelines. Therefore the United States should divorce itself from power politics in the Middle East, ceding it to Iran as America focuses on the tense but comparably stable Pacific Rim.
These ideas are simplistic, and they are dangerous because they take options out of the foreign policy playbook, leaving the United States with few options to stave off future crisis or respond to atrocities. If the U.S. can’t intervene or support proxies, it would cede the field to nations that are not shy about using such tactics, like Russia and Iran. If insurgencies are seen as effective against U.S. military might, more will spring up. It would be wiser for the U.S. to study the missteps. Learning from mistakes is how the aviation industry reduces airline crashes. Why should foreign policy be different?
motyak wrote: I think the spelling error is more likely, since half your posts are so riddled with them they are one step away from being unintelligible. He made light of an error of yours, then you tried to correct him on a joke he made about inflicting the pain of a US accent on them.
Motyak , you are right but never fear for I have skewered Jihadin with the lance-like power of my razor sharp mind. He reels before me using the Godwin defence in a pathetic effort to cast aside the shame of being beaten like the 20 week old turtle carcass hanging disconsolately in the the afternoon sun with it's fly-blown cloaca swinging in the wind that knows himself to be.
I won WITH proof! I AM KING OF THE INTERWEB!
Back to skool i go
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While America was busy getting all hot and bothered about an American-for-Taliban prisoner exchange, the nation of Iraq has been collapsing. News broke from Iraq today that militants have seized the town of Tikrit almost without a fight. This comes on the heels of the fall of Mosul earlier this week to the same group—the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). For those without maps, Tikrit lies between Mosul, the second-largest city in the country, and Baghdad, the largest. Samarra could be next, and then the capital will be imperiled. Half a million Iraqis have been displaced since January. This is, no doubt, a historic foreign policy failure.
No one likes to think about Iraq anymore. If we did, people would know terrible things are brewing there and not be shocked by today's events. Now the nation is in crisis, and hundreds of thousands of war-weary people are once again on the front lines of revolution and repression. This time there is no major power to help them keep it together—unless Iran or (less likely) Turkey decides to move in.
Here are four things to consider as the bad news rolls in.
1. U.S. politicians are washing their hands of this—which is bad news for the Iraqi people.
Colin Powell's famous Pottery Barn rule about invasions—"you break it; you buy it"—assumes there are people in D.C. who feel obligated to make good on that promise. These days, there are not. Democrats will say, rightly, that a Republican administration made this mess by invading and mishandling the insurgency that followed. They will say Iraq was doomed to fail and support the Obama administration’s choice to pull troops from Iraq. Republicans will point out, rightly, that the Obama administration made a major error by leaving Iraq without a security agreement in place. This left Iraq without vital assistance. As recently as 2011 there was talk of leaving as many as 10,000 troops as training and intelligence assets; that could have helped keep the ISIL in check.
This is the worst situation for inspiring progress from Washington D.C. No one feels responsible, no one feels like salvaging the situation, and everyone can blame someone else. President Bush was willing to risk a new strategy in Iraq during his famous surge there, probably because his legacy was on the line. It worked. But now there's nothing to prompt a bold plan to help Iraq. Intervention is unlikely. The Iraq central government doesn’t seem to be a reliable partner. And so the winner is ISIL, which wants to create a theocratic caliphate, much like the one Al Qaeda dreamed of, and now controls wide swatches of Syria and Iraq. The losers are any U.S. personnel who fought and died for Iraq, and even more so, the Iraqis who supported democracy and equal rights in their nation.
2. This is linked to a wider mess in the Middle East, particularly Syria.
ISIL was founded in 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Iraqis didn’t like their bloodthirsty methods (even Al Qaeda complained against ISIL brutality) and thought the group was made of meddling foreigners. After some notable high ranking deaths, and flashes of political progress, the ISIL drifted into war-torn Syria to fight the regime of Bashar Assad.
ISIL made its terrible mark there, killing hundreds in other rebel groups, seizing territory from government control, and executing those who didn’t subscribe to their religious views. This is when Al Qaeda dumped them as a client, but ISIL was growing in clout and attracting a new crop of ambitious, super-religious adherents. They are now the top dog of the militant world.
3. The collapse of Iraq puts ISIS on the map. And they may not like how it feels.
A common enemy is one of the best way for two nations to forge a deeper relationship. The current Iraqi government is close to Iran; Tehran has had hooks in Iraq ever since Saddam fell, and supported insurgents during the U.S. occupation. On Wednesday, Iranian officials "extended Tehran's full support for the Iraqi government and security forces in their fight against the ISIL."
Being top dog is not a good thing. The ISIL will find itself hunted by Iran and its proxies, who are not known for fighting humanely. They can expect a full spectrum of war aimed their way: Warplanes and assassinations, spies and barrel bombs, helicopters and car bombs—the works.
4. This will inspire a Vietnam-esque narrative of failure.
Back in the U.S., the failure of Iraq will color military and political thinking in ways that will leave the nation less prepared for future fights. The lesson could go like this: Invasion only leads to chaos, and counter-insurgency is a dead doctrine because reliable partners are impossible to create within reasonable timelines. Therefore the United States should divorce itself from power politics in the Middle East, ceding it to Iran as America focuses on the tense but comparably stable Pacific Rim.
These ideas are simplistic, and they are dangerous because they take options out of the foreign policy playbook, leaving the United States with few options to stave off future crisis or respond to atrocities. If the U.S. can’t intervene or support proxies, it would cede the field to nations that are not shy about using such tactics, like Russia and Iran. If insurgencies are seen as effective against U.S. military might, more will spring up. It would be wiser for the U.S. to study the missteps. Learning from mistakes is how the aviation industry reduces airline crashes. Why should foreign policy be different?
Iran wins.
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(CNN) - Iraq's government Wednesday indicated a willingness for the United States military to conduct airstrikes against radical Islamist militants who have taken over one large city and are threatening to fully control another, a U.S. official told CNN.
motyak wrote: I think the spelling error is more likely, since half your posts are so riddled with them they are one step away from being unintelligible. He made light of an error of yours, then you tried to correct him on a joke he made about inflicting the pain of a US accent on them.
Motyak , you are right but never fear for I have skewered Jihadin with the lance-like power of my razor sharp mind. He reels before me using the Godwin defence in a pathetic effort to cast aside the shame of being beaten like the 20 week old turtle carcass hanging disconsolately in the the afternoon sun with it's fly-blown cloaca swinging in the wind that knows himself to be.
I won WITH proof! I AM KING OF THE INTERWEB!
Wait... so is Jihadin sweating like a gypsy with a mortgage yet... or should he be busier than a one-armed brick layer in baghdad?
motyak wrote: I think the spelling error is more likely, since half your posts are so riddled with them they are one step away from being unintelligible. He made light of an error of yours, then you tried to correct him on a joke he made about inflicting the pain of a US accent on them.
Motyak , you are right but never fear for I have skewered Jihadin with the lance-like power of my razor sharp mind. He reels before me using the Godwin defence in a pathetic effort to cast aside the shame of being beaten like the 20 week old turtle carcass hanging disconsolately in the the afternoon sun with it's fly-blown cloaca swinging in the wind that knows himself to be.
I won WITH proof! I AM KING OF THE INTERWEB!
Wait... so is Jihadin sweating like a gypsy with a mortgage yet... or should he be busier than a one-armed brick layer in baghdad?
B aghdad
We started something...and its snowballing...
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Seaward wrote: Plus, why do they even want our air? I thought we were terrible, terrible sky-rapers who just drop on weddings and special needs schools.
Seaward wrote: Plus, why do they even want our air? I thought we were terrible, terrible sky-rapers who just drop on weddings and special needs schools.
Only on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Tuesday and Wednesday are reserved for POV vehicles
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Seaward wrote: Plus, why do they even want our air? I thought we were terrible, terrible sky-rapers who just drop on weddings and special needs schools.
Only on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Tuesday and Wednesday are reserved for POV vehicles
Sunday Game of Thrones is on, so everyone is at home watching TV so no bombing civilians Sundays either.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Time Outs though for Longmire, Penny Dreadful, and Power
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KamikazeCanuck wrote: So what will the history books say about the 2nd Gulf War? Will it be simply that America "lost" the war in the same way it lost the Vietnam War?
The historical view on Vietnam is more complex than that.
As far as the Middle East goes, can anyone deny that all of our war aims have failed to be accomplished? Except for the removal of Saddam which was not a primary aim anyway, and could have been brought about by waiting and doing nothing since he would have died naturally.
Given that the Baathist remnants are allied with the Isis, we may well see a Baathist regime headed by one of Saddam's ex-henchmen in a couple of years and the circle will be complete.
What did the US Military fail in Iraq? We met all goals as directed. Do not point to Iraq military that we trained. Some crazy "purges" happen to it after we left.
We all knew this was going to happen when the bingo date to withdraw was issued. In fact I pretty much stated this was going to happen.
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KamikazeCanuck wrote: So what will the history books say about the 2nd Gulf War? Will it be simply that America "lost" the war in the same way it lost the Vietnam War?
The historical view on Vietnam is more complex than that.
As far as the Middle East goes, can anyone deny that all of our war aims have failed to be accomplished? Except for the removal of Saddam which was not a primary aim anyway, and could have been brought about by waiting and doing nothing since he would have died naturally.
Given that the Baathist remnants are allied with the Isis, we may well see a Baathist regime headed by one of Saddam's ex-henchmen in a couple of years and the circle will be complete.
I know the end of Vietnam was more complicated and the aftermath of the end of America's involvement in Iraq will be equally complicated but the popular lay narrative is that America lost the Vietnam war. I'm wondering if that will be the same outcome of the Iraq War.
I don't really see the argument for the US sending troops in again, or even lending support from the air. In terms of military power, Iraq has the men and gear to spank ISIS. The issue is whether there is the competent leadership and willingness to fight among the troops, and if those things aren't present then any US involvement will only be delaying the inevitable.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
Korean Conflict was a draw no one arguing that. Politics played into that but I am glad Eisenhower put a check on MacArthur to not expand hitting targets on China border
The term for Vietnam being used is "We lost the war but won all the battles." Politics though played very heavy in the conflict
First Gulf War was to evict Saddam out of Kuwait. I believe Bush did not want to kill Saddam due to that power vacuum it would have left
Afghanistan, well we went in and to get AQ and booted Taliban for harboring them
Iraq, I blame freaking everyone in congress since pretty much they all agreed to it. To remove Saddam and whatever WMD he had. All circumstantial but to some its not enough to convict the POTUS
Libya. Lead airstrikes into it for a turn over in regime. Yet no one I think fully understood what parties were in play there
Syria. Fighter groups there are totally questionable on who was supporting them
Ukraine. Same thing. What exactly are we supporting there being they have some questionable members in public positions of authority.
I think the "Bench Mark" the Iraqi's had to make to show progress to satisfy those in DoS and POTUS is going to come in play. Were the Field Commander reports influence by what those two entity want to hear or were they willing to put their career on the line and state out right its a "No Go". I know of three commanders removed because of that
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sebster wrote: I don't really see the argument for the US sending troops in again, or even lending support from the air. In terms of military power, Iraq has the men and gear to spank ISIS. The issue is whether there is the competent leadership and willingness to fight among the troops, and if those things aren't present then any US involvement will only be delaying the inevitable.
To them, Iraqi Army, they are fighting their own can and have a strong sense of the outcome who be in charge in a year
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Jihadin wrote: What did the US Military fail in Iraq? We met all goals as directed. Do not point to Iraq military that we trained. Some crazy "purges" happen to it after we left.
We all knew this was going to happen when the bingo date to withdraw was issued. In fact I pretty much stated this was going to happen.
I don’t mean the armed forces did a bad job. I mean they were sent to do the wrong job which created a situation impossible to be solved by the military.
The War Aim was to break up the Baathist regime in order to:
1. Remove the WMDs.
2. Suppress extremist terrorism.
3. Build a stable democracy.
The Baathist regime was broken up quickly. The army was knocked out, the ring-leaders were captured or driven abroad and the party was suppressed which had the effect of breaking up the government. That military task was accomplished smartly and effectively. However it was merely a means to the three ends.
Looking at those we know that 1 and 2 were impossible to be accomplished as they did not exist. (This was known before the war but ignored and glossed over by our leadership.)
Objective 3 -- nation building -- is a political and social task not a military one. The key failure of the CotW was not having a plan in place for that task. The consequences as we have seen were dire.
"We need places to land, we need safe and secure airfields," one source said, noting that the militants are "seizing airfields and they have surface-to-air missiles, which very clearly threatens our pilots and planes if we do go into evacuation mode."
About that air support...
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It may surprise a lot people on this site, but technically, the Vietnam war wasn't actually a war. War was never declared.
Sure we had the situation of America saying yeah, we're killing tons of your guys and dropping bombs on your cities, and sure the North is killing tons of ours guys, but nobody is at war with each other
Anyway, I'd just like to say I'm pretty fearful for the future and here's why. A few months ago, I was reading about Ukraine in WW2...at the same time Putin kicked off trouble.
Two weeks ago I started reading a book about the British in Iraq in the 1920s and 1930s...and look what's happened.
The next book on my reading list is a biography of...
Spoiler:
stonewall jackson
I just hope something really bad doesn't happen to America involving certain states!
"Our crops will wither, our children will die piteous
deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky. But is it true?" - Tom Kirby, CEO, Games Workshop Ltd
"We need places to land, we need safe and secure airfields," one source said, noting that the militants are "seizing airfields and they have surface-to-air missiles, which very clearly threatens our pilots and planes if we do go into evacuation mode."
About that air support...
My desire to let Iraq get hoisted by its own petard and thus agree with this is countered by my desire to say, "It's called a flight deck, nimrod."
To the anonymous source, obviously. Not to you, Jihadin.
I bet they're really regretting say no to not extending that SOFA
Wonder if Karzai going to sign off on his or let the incoming one sign off on it who might not actually do it
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DE 6700
Harlequin 2500
RIP Muhammad Ali.
Jihadin, Scorched Earth 791. Leader of the Pork Eating Crusader. Alpha
