On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:23:57 -0700, m9mckinle wrote:
> July 10 Airpower Summary: Bitter Irony: Invader Tankers 'fuel' the
illegal
> colonial wars for oil and gas, pipelines and bases
> http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123060273
114 Bombing raids on
Afghans
> and Iraqis today, to lose more hearts and minds
>
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Winning hearts and minds won't matter much if Islamic extremists are not
defeated. In fact it will be worse.
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> Death from above
> http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG12Ak01.html
>>From Dresden and Tokyo to Hanoi and now Iraq's Baquba and
> Afghanistan's tribal villages, the US military has been "hooked on air
> power". The addiction will only grow stronger as US ground troops
> gradually withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, increasingly leaving
> civilians, not insurgents, to continue to take the heat. - Tom
Engelhardt
> (Jul 11, '07)
>
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An excellent argument for increasing the number of troops in Iraq and
Afghanistan especially now with positive re****ts about the surge in troops
in the provinces surrounding Baghdad and al Qaeda safe houses being
discovered, secured, or destroyed.
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> A fallacy that bombs - literally
> http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG12Ak06.html
US and Israeli
> reliance on air power to fight urban guerilla warfare has unintended
> consequences. Dead civilians, decimated homes, schools and hospitals
> strengthen and unify opponents and ****tend an ominous future for US
> geopolitical goals. (Jul 11, '07)
>
> Michaell McKinley - USA
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Geopolitical goals will not even be a consideration if Islamic extremists
are allowed to run wild and spread their destructive influence. By the
way, air sup****t has always been a key element to the ground troops and
with improved technology collateral damage has been minimized. Lets not
forget that those extremists hide in schools and hospitals since they
don't care about the lives of the young or the sick. Indeed they cowardly
hide
behind them knowing that the Air Force is much less likely to attack if
schools and hospitals are in the field of fire.
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