Re: Copper theft

In article <jkh1h2hrnu6i3lu9triajcek1q7q7dhe21@xxxxxxx>,
<gfretwell@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:52:44 +0000 (UTC), kensmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Ken Smith) wrote:

But simply bombing never really wins a war. Two Nukes in 1942 would
not have stopped Japan.

We aren't talking about "winning a war". We are talking about punishing
the Taliban for supporting OBL and perhaps getting them to turn him over.
That is what I said the goal was.

You can't really hurt these people much by bombing them, they don't
have much to lose and you end up killing more innocent people than
those you can prove were terrorists.

There are cities in Afghanistan. There are bridges and roads and at least
one airport. They also have livestock you could take out with strafing
etc. There may be less targets in Afghanistan than Iraq, but you can't
say there are none.

That makes more terrorists and a
stronger resolve to support OBL.
You should know that if you a student of UK history. Using the V-1s
and V-2s on London was probably one of the worst mistakes of the war
for Hitler. It just hardened the Brits and assured they were coming
back with a "vengence" of their own.

The nukes made Japan give up. It doesn't always work like that.

When Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris was bouncing the rubble in German
cities long after they were taken out as military targets the
sentiment in UK was ***'m.
Islam felt the same way when the towers fell, larely because we
thought we could bomb them with no danger to ourselves.

I dispute the notion that "Islam" felt that way. Indonesia is an Islamist
state. A lot of people reacted with sympathy and support when the World
Trade Center was attacked. This has been squandered since but at that
moment, there was a lot of support.

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