New U.S. Tactic: Bomb Roads, Before The Iraqis Do
January 11, 2008 8:57:00 AM
Courtesy Of: Wired.com
Since the Iraq insurgency started, I must have heard a thousand idea for beating roadside bombs -- from lightning guns to radio-controlled toys to mine-mashers to microwave blasts to new roads to just plain walking.But this NPR report reveals a brand new tactic for dealing with deep-buried improvised explosives: fly a B-1 overhead, and bomb the living crap out of the road itself. Detonate all those weapons, in other words, before the insurgents do.It's all part of an absolutely ginormous U.S. assault on Sunni insurgent strongholds north and south of Baghdad -- seven battalions, in an region that was once patrolled by just 500 soldiers, Phil Carter points out. Phil spent a year where all those troops are now. He's confident that American forces can kick around any insurgents they find there. But he's still pessimistic about how far this war can move beyond wack-a-mole. Or bomb-a-road.Posted by: Sparks Jan 11, 2008 3:52:37 PM
Comment To Above Post:
Why the Iraqi's will win..Ah Americans aren't really very smart are they. All the Iraqis really need to do to win the war is turn a few americans soldiers into piles of steaming catfood along some road everyday. Same technique the VC used, same thing the Iraqis used to defeat the british. We are spending billions upon billions we don't have to chase shadows and they just need to keep us there long enough to bankrupt us, same way the Afghans beat the russians. The dollar is falling because the world is moving away from it as a default reserve currency. The bretton woods conference in 1971 replaced gold with oil as the US dollars intrinsic value component. With more and more oil producers selling oil for euros the dollar is loosing it's foundation and being seem more amd more as just a worthless piece of paper. Sooner or later it will reach a tipping point and the dollar will collapse. Game over.Posted by: Fred Jan 12, 2008 5:54:12 AM
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