tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post2634283227875747140..comments2023-08-16T12:07:22.995+00:00Comments on The Daily (Maybe): Air power and IraqJim Jeppshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-23047582077309981272007-01-07T16:09:00.000+00:002007-01-07T16:09:00.000+00:00ooh, I don't want to give PC a clean bill of healt...ooh, I don't want to give PC a clean bill of health, just the sources for this article. It's one of quite a lot of radical, anti-war, quasi-conspiratorialist web-sites that exist in the void of a larger movement. I didn't find the stuff on Paraguay, but would say that yes US forces are there in quite large numbers, special forces types, concerned with the whole cross-border thing in a triangle between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, which seems to be a strong focus for the international drugs business, but allegedly also as a conduit for terrorists - suspicions being focused on the quite large Lebanese diaspora, especially after the rather nasty bombing of the Buenos Aires synagogue in 1994, usually attributed to Hezbollah with Iranian involvement - although, of course, it remains murky.<br /><br />Sorry to miss your caveats. To be honest I think the Democrats will make things difficult as a means of helping themselves in 2008, so yes, Senate hearing, Scooter Libby trial, etc. But while Bush is responsible for an unpopular and losing policy their interest is in keeping him dangling in the wind (toi go back to a favourite Nixonian term) rather than effectively changing policy. You don't think they are principled opponents of the war do you?badmatthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16655688008055817617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-74437505913316486662007-01-07T15:13:00.000+00:002007-01-07T15:13:00.000+00:00Brave? That's me all over.
Anyway, I hope there a...Brave? That's me all over.<br /><br />Anyway, I hope there are enough caveats in there along the lines of "<b>if</b> this is true" to show that I'm trying to talk about what the consequence of the policy would be rather than to state definatively that is definately what the new approach is.<br /><br />What do you think? The Democrats are making life difficult demanding troop withdrawal - could this be a consequence?<br /><br />Oh and thanks for info on PCJim Jeppshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-78392921217123642142007-01-07T14:25:00.000+00:002007-01-07T14:25:00.000+00:00The Project Censored stuff is based on Seymour Her...The Project Censored stuff is based on Seymour Hersh and Dahr Jamail, both of whom are serious reporters. The stuff about the unreported airwar has had a bit of coverage I've seen. <br /><br />But really Jim when everyone else is talking about a surge in numbers of troops it's very brave of you to go for a more airwar perspective. It's always been element, just look for more airstrikes against supposed resistance sites.badmatthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16655688008055817617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-7827651035266819582007-01-05T23:25:00.000+00:002007-01-05T23:25:00.000+00:00You are exactly right about the indiscriminate, in...You are exactly right about the indiscriminate, inaccurate nature of air power as a weapon. Especially when wielded by the Americans.<br /><br />To this day, the USAF conventional bombing strategies come from information gleaned from Albert Speer, the Nazi armaments minister.<br /><br />But the US have never seemed to learn that air power is only useful in destroying conventional forces, it cannot be used to hold ground or defeat organised guerrillas. (Vietnam for instance.)<br /><br />Considering there are no more opposing conventional forces left in Iraq just how will jets and bombs police the vanquished below?<br /><br />As I said before, this war was aimed at destabilising Iraq more then any other motive and the whole game plan appears grossly incompetent until you realise that.The Sentinelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18407669804421969164noreply@blogger.com