It doesn’t matter what the weapon is or how accurate it is if you don’t know where to aim it. The basic problem with a “clean” air war is that nobody is close enough or well informed enough to aim those bombs, so you just plaster everything in munitions and hope you get the right people.

I couldn’t agree with you more. And the hell of it is the same American power and wealth that gives them their legal Colorado marijuana, highest standard of living in the world, and freedom to live with their same sex partner leaves them with nothing more to whine about than how wrong America is.

The Russians are no saints, by any means. But we would regain the moral high ground if we were to call out ALL the dickheads.

We should return the refugees. Stop everyone at the border, separate the military aged males, give each one a rifle, 500 rounds and a backpack full of MREs and send them back to Syria.

If that’s the case, we should be bombing the everloving shit out of both Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the bloodbath that followed is the root of ISIS creation.US should not be there in the first place.

I’m not missing shit. They want you to believe that. If you go as hard as Russia does, then they think twice about fucking with you.

Why fight when you can just call America to cause your terrorist problems?

I’m thinking about a tenth of the size of the SDB, and with only INS and GPS guidance (A smartphone can manage both) to keep the cost down. For most of the targets you don’t need anything much bigger than a hand grenade.

I guess the problem is that somehow or other, despite 15 years of fighting this war, we’ve never planned to fight this war. The bombs and missiles we’re buying are for destroying a tank or a bunker, not a Toyota Hilux or a shack.

There’s a huge different between Desert Storm and fighting the Iraqi army versus fighting ISIS.

Too Late; Died Reading.

The C-5M climbs surprisingly fast for how big it is; I’ve seen climb rates greater than 7000 feet per minute.

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