Maybe I am stuck in the Viet Nam era, but maybe not. I clearly despise the 60's generation side that beat the draft and got away with it. It is no surprise to me that the draft dodgers and desertion crowd is the same group most willing to give amnesty to the illegal immigrants. I always am suspect of those with no skin in the game.
My position is rather basic. The amount of injuries and deaths from IEDs is unacceptable. The use of IEDs spreads because they are effective, inexpensive, deadly, dramatic and easily copied. Some observations:
1. Increase the size of units whose job it is to clear and secure the roads. If we cannot get enough US troops, then hire the equivalent of the TSA (they are good with blue haired white American grandmothers}. Iraqis could be used to supplement US forces, or mercenaries could be hired.
2. Use and develop 24/7 air and satellite based surveillance of roads cleared of IEDs.
3. Follow the network and source of internet videos of IED explosions. Be inclusive and set off some IEDs in internet cafes and supporting mosques. Flood the Iraqi market with cheap traceable video cameras.
4. I do not care how much it costs. If $10 billion is not enough, spend $20 billion. Have the political courage to raise a tax for the specific purpose. Call it a US IED prevention tax, and tax gasoline or trans-fats for all I care. Get the money for the technology. There has been no political courage in this department by the theorist architects and leadership of this administration, which is largely staffed by people that avoided military service when they had the opportunity and duty to serve.
5. Bob W., keep well.
"2. Use and develop 24/7 air and satellite based surveillance of roads cleared of IEDs."
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What's the point?
At Baquaba we had SUV imagery of targetable enemy assets days in advance, and did nothing about it.
WTF?
Less Money, More Bombs!
I forgot about that. Now I will never get back to sleep.
ReplyDeleteRemember, folks, Tuesday might be the last chance to save us from Amnesty.
ReplyDeleteKeep those cards, letters, calls, e-mails, and faxes coming.
40,000 innocent men, women, and children killed on el Presidente Bush's watch, and still counting.
In Afganistan avoer 100 formed up, rank & file.
ReplyDeleteIn a sanctuary.
But what happened when they left that sanctuary, when they walked out of that cemetary, into the open ground?
Not a damned thing.
No killing ground found
No, for the Taliban, unless actively engaged in offensive actions against NATO troops, all Afghanistan is a sanctuary.
Certainly seems to be.
Nurture the (Religious Fascist Death Squad) Insurgency!
ReplyDeleteNurture the invading hordes of welfare cheats, drug and flesh dealers, murderers, rapists, child molesters, and the terrorists associated with the unregulated flood of humanity and human scum!
ReplyDeleteViva el Presidente Bush!
A Compassionate Man Nurtures his Fellow Man!
ReplyDeleteEVERY MONTH 150,000 are stopped at the border, others escape detection.
ReplyDeleteThus EVERY MONTH the invasion on our border is greater than our troop committment in Irag!
Nurture the Invasion!
In Israel, garageniks that did business using parts of cars that were stolen to PA controlled areas and then dissembled, had their face punched into a pulp and their business vandalized. The police was never asked to investigate.
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