Not right now, but you’d be surprised. Kids in Afghanistan would go around and collect the brass shell casings to melt down and turn into stuff. In a war zone, you can’t say with 100% accuracy that some kid wouldn’t be out there trying to find/scavenge stuff.

6 - media gets distracted, forgets about investigations into Trump-Russia ties.

7 - Raytheon stocks go up. Oh wait, you already covered Profit in #5.

Ever been to Cambodia? Even 30 years later, it’s still a problem there. At least try to keep the problems to our own generation.

Isn’t that exactly what ISIS wants?

It’s the decoy. It has kept Trump’s connection to Russia as a lesser news item.

Sigh... it’s not on Jalopnik. Articles on the Gawker network are occasionally cross-posted. Check the URL - this is Foxtrot Alpha, not Jalopnik.

Got links to such stories? If a dumb bomb was dropped on a sarin gas cache (which shouldn’t have existed in the first place), would it destroy the gas? Also, why would there be so many people next to an ISIS weapons cache?

Do they really need a reason to make oil prices go up anymore?

Haven’t they only been in it for the money anyway?

Another thing to consider: drugs go one way, money likely goes the other. I know there’s been some pretty big cash loads found by border patrol that were destined to go south. I bet all that cash is funneled back into budgets.

Is the USCG Station Seattle equipped with a poop deck? Or can any deck become a poop deck? :P

Isn’t that partially true regardless of who is in office?

Mostly curious here, but with something like the Osprey, why not use two sets of wings (so 4 engines in total)? Too much turbulence for the second set of wings/engines?

No wonder he’s so angry. :P

Arts and elicit drugs...

Also, how do you manage to take out the laser when it keeps blinding whatever looks at it?

I’ve wonder about this: what would prevent a defensive laser installation? Basically, it’d keep shining lasers at whatever tries to target it. I don’t imagine it’d actually take that much power to damage any sort of visual…

How about some polonium tainted cognac? Wait, that’d be the Russian approach...

That makes a lot more sense.

Pardon the ignorance here, but what good is a UAV against a ballistic missile? I thought Hellfire were primarily air-to-surface, not air-to-air...

Instead of military spending going to contractors, why not spend it on people? E.g.: lower education costs, reasonable public healthcare, etc.?