yea but it doesn't operate on beetlejuice rules
syria?
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unless someone actually puts a thermite device on the CW itself, it wouldnt be used since napalm bombs (which use thermite) are no longer used iirc, especially near civilians
a shockwave isnt going to destroy a chemical weapon. a thermobaric will essentially destroy anything and everything in its path.
then again, i could be wrong
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IIRC in Gulf War 1.0 FAE's were used on CW sites followed quickly by a "traditional" high explosive. The thinking was the FAE would rupture the containers and the HE would incenerate the CW. That link I posted yesterday talks about a weapon using darts to puncture the containers and WP to incenerate the CW.
that's it...a couple bunker busters that busts bunkers under the bunkers you just busted with a dozen thermobaric chasers should do the trick.
this is (may sound) heartless. but the UN Report isn't public (yet) and snippets of that report doesn't give definitive proof that Assad's forces doled out the chem attack. I say, we stay out of syria, and them sort it out.
We send in some cruise missles, piss off rebels because it's too little too late, or worse, kill civilians by accident. We do nothing, piss off rebels because they think the West supports Assad. We're damned if we do, and damned if we don't. Those fcukers will find a way to hate America.
A significant percentage of those rebels are AQ (or AQ sympathetic) anyways. The enemy of my enemy...is still the f-ing enemy.
Use that new fangled spy satellite we just launched, if we see Chems being diverted or falling into non-governmental hands and potentially used against us, then bombs away. Until then, enough with the warring when there is no immediate US threat.
this is (may sound) heartless. but the UN Report isn't public (yet) and snippets of that report doesn't give definitive proof that Assad's forces doled out the chem attack. I say, we stay out of syria, and them sort it out.
We send in some cruise missles, piss off rebels because it's too little too late, or worse, kill civilians by accident. We do nothing, piss off rebels because they think the West supports Assad. We're damned if we do, and damned if we don't. Those fcukers will find a way to hate America.
A significant percentage of those rebels are AQ (or AQ sympathetic) anyways. The enemy of my enemy...is still the f-ing enemy.
Use that new fangled spy satellite we just launched, if we see Chems being diverted or falling into non-governmental hands and potentially used against us, then bombs away. Until then, enough with the warring when there is no immediate US threat.
Exactly........I was listening to NPR yesterday and they interviewed some college age girls. They are less afraid of Assad than the rebels. They were recounting where the rebels were imposing strict Sharia law and killing of women for very minor "offenses" to Islam. So while I think we should certainly stay out, I'm afraid that if the rebels prevail it will turn into another Afganistan circa late 1990's with regards to the treatment of women.
that unfortunately hasnt stopped us before
What's funny is that Obama has stated he's going to Congress to get authorization for war... and OMFG are the righties upset.Oh Oh Oh!!!
I know the answer...
Cause the tea party has been posting it all over face book!
And you know Rand Paul and the other Libertarians are going to vote no. Looks like Obama just outmaneuvered the Republicans.... again?
i think the evidence gathered is insufficient to prove without a reasonable doubt. this is obama's way out from military action.
while i'm hopeful that US stays out of this war syria, Obama royally f-d this up in terms of political strategy and foreign policy.
This.
At first the republicans were against any action...now they are ready to go to war. All this just to be opposite of whatever position the president takes.
Something something repeating history something something
chickenhawks aren't smart?
^^^^Exactly, so we "topple" the Assad regieme........now who takes over? Several of the splintered rebel groups have AQ ties, so we create a new Afganistan circa 1997??
The evil you know vs. the evil you don't know............
If we do anything, I'd say destroy any CW and leave it at that. That way the Assad regieme can't use them, and if the Jihadist rebels come to power neither can they.
The evil you know vs. the evil you don't know............
If we do anything, I'd say destroy any CW and leave it at that. That way the Assad regieme can't use them, and if the Jihadist rebels come to power neither can they.
Well, if we invade Chicago, at least the schools will be taken care of and something will get done about the crumbling infrastructure.
is it sad that detroit is probably safer...
Hey....I am from Chicago....
And you work for an outfit that's really into guns and shooting folks.........
must spread
So whaddaya trying to say? Guilty by association...I am a legitimate businessman as are all my associates...
Wanna buy a watch? Car? Truckload of cigarettes?
Well that works for most cops, fox commentators and politician's.
Who am I to argue.
apparently ABC news is saying the US will use B2's and B52's flown from the US to "launch missles during a air attack." 
on that long a voyage, there should be a swarm of a-10s to refuel themapparently ABC news is saying the US will use B2's and B52's flown from the US to "launch missles during a air attack."
that sounds as credible as what someone from abc would say
maybe battleship?
OMFG, it's the end of times, gasp, I agree with lunatic Michelle Bachman.
Time to put together a bug out bag full of spare bike parts, snacks, and weed.
Time to put together a bug out bag full of spare bike parts, snacks, and weed.
Don't worry, she doesn't *actually* feel that way, she's just using it to bash Obama. If the President was a white guy with an (R) after his name she'd be underneath the podium blowing him as he was announcing how we'd already sent in ground troops to "protect freedom®".
...and if she wasnt blowing him, that husband of her's would be.
Now that popular opinion is that we should be isolationists that means we can slash the military budget rught?
only if we can still win hearts and minds....
Hell, even I hate 'Mericans. Maybe national policy should be 'pretend we are Canadian'.
Nah like people lump NZ in with being Australian, a lot of the planet tend to consider Canadians to be Americans.