Well lets start this out for everyone with who I am in the game.

Sinjay Seney is a new pilot whom I started the name is well just a mixture of nothingness. but it sounded like a fit.

Who he has become in the game thus far. After leaving flight school and flying through the Empire, into the WPR and then into the Federation and flying through the Federation. I developed a slight feel for how this characters views would be. In the Empire I flew freely and never had troubles with MO's or anything. In the federation I managed to find myself as a neutral blocked on MO's leading into Federation systems. I found myself blocked from useing player owned star bases in the federation space.

I then read the forums and was unimpressed with the Federation pilots with big mouths bad mouthing everyone and then I seen the same from the Union. The Union space is locked down to neutrals and I was unabel to enter. Through this all i gained the view that the only friendly Faction out there was the Empire.
The Empire pilots were not bad mouthing anyone and fighting with everyone in the comm channels and thus the decision was made. The thing then became where would I seek to find a group? Well as anyone fresh out of flight school I would seek out those whom were known as war heroes in the war which so recently ended while Sinjay was in flight school. It would only be natural to desire to be a part of something close to these people. Which is what led me here to all of you.


Now as to who I am. Well I will be brief if that is all that possible.
married father of 6 kids oldes 21 youngest 6 (2nd youngest is 12) So yes the last one was a surprise.
I am 40 years old. I have been in the United States Navy I was a cryptological technician and specialized in High Frequency Direction finiding. I worked directly with the teams as a support personnel. What all that means is I located (formerly USSR) ships and subs and passed intel on their location to my supervisors for possibel deployment of special forces. yes that is what I did. I also spent 10 years hauling yachts and cruisers (sailbaots and leisure cabin crusiers ) around North America.

I am no longer working because of disabilities. I have what is known as Elhers Danlos Syndrome. (I have instable joints that can result in dislocations in them easily.) I am alergic to the medications that treat the disease. I am also undergoing tests still as they think I may have M.S. (Now before anyone says OH MAN DUDE that sucks I am so SORRY!) Dont be. Others have it worse then I do in life. You get what you make out of it. I could sit around going oh boo hoo poor me. but I am more the type to state the world can go and **ck itself and i will never lie down and die. yeah that is me.

As to the message I left in the chat. I will explain quickly here what the world itself fails to realize about America. (Oh did I mention I have a major in History?)
Europe for the most part has always been a cast society bassis of seeing themselves as having a leader who terms then what is acceptable and what is not. (this is historicaly based not meaning currently we are talking the 1700-1800's)

When America was discovered most of those who disagreed with that cast system found ways to leave Europe they fled to America to the colonies. These people soon adopted a philosphy of self rule and that they would not listen to anyone tellt hem what they could ro could not do and that there was no way anyone could enforce their beliefs and rules and laws upon them. These people rose up and thus the Revolutionary War was faught for Americas Independence.

What America was telling the world simply was no one would tell us what we can and can not do and if they tried we would fight them with all we had to stop them from imposing their beliefs and systems upon us. This was tried several times in the first 50 years of Americas History. Each time the people not the government of the country rose up and smashed the efforts of those whom tried it. Then America split itself in two and we fought a war that was ugly and horrible yet it was based upon the same thing.

We arrive now into the 19th and 20th Century's where the world powers were forming their empires and America and England and even a few others were expansionist in theory. As the World Wars came to be the ideas of Empires crumbled and the World Powers began to realize that independence was probably a good thing. America still views these as a whole (the people not the governmet) as the fact if it had not been for America's willingness to sacrifice our sons and daughters for the good fo the world things would have gone a lot differently and poorly in most of our minds.

We as a country then went on to fight for the freedoms of others. Even amongst many of our own people disdain and that of the worlds too. america has always been a country of two sides those who are willing to do what it takes no matter what to see the country and people as a whole advance and those whom want to just accept whatever comes down the pike next and just go along and not cause any problems. They have a view of "Can't we all just get along?"

So this leads to this last election. Many in the world and Europe I have spoken too are thrilled to death and think that America has finaly grasped what they and the rest of the world think we have failed to see and understand. That we should have views in line with Europe and the others in the world. Well I hate to tell you all. America is not about to become Europe. We faught a war to get away from your views and beliefs and such. America is misguided and screwed up right now yes. However this election of Barak Obama is not America comming around to your way of thinking. In fact trust me when I tell you good ole Barak Obama is about to make a whole lot of people in the world unhappy.

Some facts for everyone. Barak Obama could not have done my job in the United States Navy he could not have recieved the security clearance I held.
Barak Obama was making promises and campaign speaches to get elected without the inteligence and knowledge he needed in order tp promise what he was.
Barak Obama just got the inteligence briefing this week and is now pondering how the hell he can possibly do what he has promised. Fact is he can not.
This will anger Democrats in America, It will anger Europe and others with a more liberal view of things. Barak Obama is just now relaizing that he is doomed to be blamed for everything. The American Economy is in trouble and it will not be repaired in 4 years. America is not a patient country he will quickly come under the blame of everyone when things dont get better in a matter of a couple months. The Iraq issue is going to be problematic for him and he will find his own supporters turning on him. Should he begin to strive to make changes as he would desire half this country will turn against him and he will find himself in trouble there.

So Barak Obama has been given a 4 year scentence where he will be stuck and unable to do much of anything that he or many of the liveral viewpoint would wish he would do.

As to my personal take on it all. Its simple America has basses in Germany and Japan. The war ended in 1945 that placed us there, guess what we are still there. We are in Iraq since 2002 hmm I see us being there a very very long time. I disagree with the way the war in IRaq has been faught. As a former military person. My plans would be simple. You shoot at us you have 24 hours to get out of the city and I commence High Altitude bombings. Your people become casualties they had a warning to get out too bad. I dont believe in Collateral damage of anyone or anything. I was triend to kill. No questions asked. I have no problems with what I did when I did it or to whom.

Often in Pardus people have asked me especially during the war about my strategic actons and views I held. Thwy were convinced it was strictly an issue of In Character behavior. I then explained to them I am exactly as I play when it comes to war. I have the ability to almost flip a switch inside myself. I am very compasionate and very open minded to everyones feelings until it comes to combat. Then I have one thing and only one thing. I will do anything including kill myself or all of those under my command in order to complete the objective. If it gets in the way the policy I held and still do is kill it. We can sort it all out later.

For those whom know who I was in the war and were friends this will explain a lot to you. For those who dont well welcome to who I am and how I will play in order to advance our goals.

Welcome aboard...

I agree with you on Obama, its going to be a tough few years - and his hands will be tied... current global economic conditions and the massive deficit don't exactly leave much room to manouveur. I expect some protectionist legislation pretty early on.

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Personally I liked Reagan, for all people said about him...

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The entire world operates a form of caste system, look at how few people control so much and how this is tied to certain families, certain schools, etc.

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As to Iraq - should've been dealt with first time around in '91 when there was a clear mandate.

A free press and fighting wars subject to public opinion is massively ineffective. As you say, when you have the ability to stand off and obliterate without casualties on your side, why get in close and fight the battle the enemy wants?

Eradicating areas to remove a potential flashpoint strikes me as strategically sound, but moralising gets in the way - and if you consider yourself at war, surely winning should be the priority?

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As all politicians do Obama has bought into the supporting Israel doctrine, unfortunately now things have gone as far as they have there are very few choices.
IMO Israel was a mistake borne of a guilt trip by Britain and the US after WW2; its now almost a rogue US colony, but due to oil reserves int he region is of strategic importance, even though supporting its apartheid regime and frequent breaches of international law undermines the moral credibility of many western countries.
It is a great recruitment poster for those wanting to twist religion to support hatred for their own personal aggrandisement; but while the world's key resource is in the region, not having a foothold their is unthinkable.

At least Obama made it clear he supports ignoring lines on a map if the enemy just happens to be at the other side - Pakistan's "tribal region" seems like a liability for world security; if it doesn't serve any constructive purpose would the world be better without it?

I don't go for the "crusade" of imposing our beliefs on others, (after all how can we talk about democracy when Britain is ruled by a party that got about 1/3 of the vote - that system is supported by the 2 parties likely to get into power as it serves their interests - a continuation of the caste system Sinjay mentioned) but but removing threats if you can at limited cost makes sense.

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The US is the remaining superpower - but it risks doing what Britain did with its Empire and over extending.

They've been late for the last 2 WWs, Bush at least wanted to be in at the start of the next one


but as the remaining superpower (unless China calls in the mortgage) the US doesn't need to do what anyone else wants; other than the need to import the likes of oil and the growing dependence on imports from China (like most of the west) the US can pretty much internalise its economy - which would make the rest of the world a much poorer place.

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Sinjay - I know what you mean about switching mindsets, I do similar - dealing with individuals on a personal level is one thing, cold hard analysis and "what needs to be done" is something entirely different.

If Obamam is worse than "Dubya" its time to pack up and leave the planet...

still he'll probably be bad in different ways.

He's coming in at a time when I think anyone will look bad - the world's in a mess due to awful strategic economic planning - dependence for key resources on countries the west doesn't exactly see eye to eye with (Middle East and Russia) - and an economy financed by China...
There are serious downsides to a global market...

& then there's the security situation, where identifying the enemy is part of the problem

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Given the state of the economy and Bush's approval ratings, McCain was probably the only Republican with half a chance...

..unfortunately it was probably 8yrs too late for him..

He seems a decent guy, but resorted to the negative approach (probably from advice) - but by then Obama as in the lead and could be seen to be presedential and rise above it.

The only people truly experienced are those that have done the same job before... but the experience line played into the hands of the "change" bandwagon - it suggests inertia and looking backwards... if people are feeling bad saying "change" and selling dreams, potentially lacking in substance is a lot easier.

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Obama wants to move the troops from Iraq to Afghanistan - but there's the problem of disengaging from Iraq (the country is much less stable than when the west went in - and without strong leadership will tend to split - Shi'ite, Kurd and Sunni - probably strengthening Iran - i.e. a worse overal regional situation).
Afghanistan has a historical record of being almost impossible to invade and occupy, and when the opium poppy harvest can provide finance for guerillas; its not an easy target - especially if Pakistan can't secure its borders and the gets in the way of troops pursuing insurgents who've just hit them and run.

Not an easy situation at all - either militarily or politically... [obliterating the poppy harvest would be a start - regardless of who gets in the way]