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Originally Posted by reve893
The bigger the boom the better. America's response to numbers is firepower. We need bigger guns, and bigger nukes.
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Watching the Military Channel, they show all kinds of enormous explosions. They showed the MOAB (Mother Of All Bombs) and the Russians claim they have come out with a FOAB (Father Of All Bombs). Though we have had the Daisy Cutters for years and even in WW II we had the Block Busters and Tall Boys.
That's fine if all your enemy is clustered in one spot and no civilians are around. But that's not the enemy we are facing today. In the first Gulf War the Battleships were very useful in taking out concrete bunkers, gun boat anchorages, etc. But that's only when few or no innocent civilians were about.
Today the radical Muslims are scattered all over the place hiding behind women and children, converting Mosques into Fortresses, gleefully blowing themselves up one by one but killing scores of "non-believers".
The ONLY way to use large explosive ordnance is to evacuate the town of all women, children, old folks, etc. Surround the town with Abrams, Challengers and Leopards with a squad of Foreign Legionaires in between each tank. Funnel the citizenry through secure check points and pick out any person that looks like he might be a radical "on the run" and take him to Osaka for questioning.
If the chieftan (mayor, governer, city manager or whatever) doesn't tell you exactly where the insurgents are hiding and where their weapons caches are, then it's time to take REAL action.
In central Europe in WW II we merely started leveling the "safe" towns with the tank guns until somebody "suddenly remembered" where the Nazi sniper was sleeping, eating, going to the toilet, etc. After doing that to two towns in a row the Burgermeister was at the gates with a list of places to "visit" first (as related to me by a welder at the shipyard who was a tank gunner then).
Today, we either use the 120mm HE firepower of the tanks surrounding the town, if it's small enough, or call in for a Tupolov to drop a couple of FOABs for us.
No town. No insurgents. No worry. No casualties on our side. Go to the next town. Before long, the town leaders will be sending you names and addresses of all the guys in the black ski-masks.
Don't say it. I know. I was referring to France, Germany and Russia to join up with us (we already have England and Japan) and bring this terrorism to an end once and for all.
Because if we leave, Al-Sadr will immediately become dictator and worse than Sadaam. That's all he really wants and he's using misinterpreted readings of the Koran to keep his terrorists going. His teacher in misinterpretations, Osama, must be proud of him.