[geeks] Special skills draft?

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:05:03 +0100
  Mike Meredith <mike at blackhairy.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 02:22:53 -0700, Francisco Javier 
>Mesa-Martinez
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:46:25 +0100
>>   Mike Meredith <mike at blackhairy.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> I don't know where in my message you got the notion that 
>> beating the nazis in western Europe was a walk in the 
>> park. 
> 
> Well ...
> 
>> > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:02:37 -0700, Francisco Javier 
>> >Mesa-Martinez
>> > wrote:
>> >> Well, there is always the counter example of WWII. 
>>Where 
>> >> conscript US forces handled the battle seasoned nazi 
>> >>army 
>> >> their own ass on a platter with potatoes and gravvy.
> 
> I read that as implying that it was easy. I guess it can 
>be read in two
> ways, and of course I jumped the wrong way :)
> 

Battle seasoned usually implies experience, this makes for 
good troops. Beating "good troops" (regardles of the 
morality of the side they were fighting for) by a force 
without the same level of experience is a inmense feat. An 
ass kicking is not an easy thing when the people receiving 
the kick in the ass were ass kickers from way back IMHO.