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Originally Posted by DWB
Look on a map, you can see all the neighboring nations there. Some of them are full of Muslim extremists. All of them have incredibly corrupt governments and military.
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I've been to Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia (which has the world's largest Muslim population, including many folks that have no use for westerners), but I'm not pointing fingers, I'm just about possibilities and capabilities.
Dollars to donuts everything is being looked at, including how feasible an Entebbe style raid on GITMO would be, if you just had a big enough plane -- of course, folks with the financing for something like that could just buy an aircraft without making all this public fuss...
On the Alaska example, TheSquealer is quite correct in that landing an aircraft on a short runway is a very different challenge than taking off again -- but I've been to Saba as well, and when it's a choice of "fly or die" wishful thinking has a certain anti-gravity effect
