At 07:22 PM 10/8/01, you wrote: >At 04:33 PM 10/8/2001 -0700, you wrote: > > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >> > Behalf Of Gautam Mukunda >> >>[snip] >> >> > It is, of course, impossible to provide. One of the basic rules >> > of logic is >> > that it is impossible to prove a negative. It is literally impossible to >> > prove that no US weapons hit _any_ civilian targets. >> >>Let me preface the following by saying that I would hope that I would >>respond thus no matter *who* wrote that... It is *logically* possible, >>though difficult, to account for every bomb and the damage it did. I >>suspect you are thinking of the principle that it is impossible to prove the >>non-existence of a thing. The bombs exist and their effects are measurable. >>I pick a nit mostly because of the story it reminded me of. >> >>My friend Dan Ryder (call sign "Mad Dog" or "Pazzo Cane," when he was based >>in Italy), who, when I said we were working on a library for Sarajevo that >>"couldn't be bombed," corrected me by saying, no, it would just be very >>difficult. This was during the Bosnian conflict, when I was involved >>creating a digital library that would reside on servers in various parts of >>the world, after Sarajevo's library was destroyed. Dan, who was vp of my >>company, was a former Navy attack pilot with more than 1,000 carrier >>arrests, which fewer than 100 guys had ever done at the time. ><snipped> >> >>Nick > >your friend is absolutely right; anything can be bombed if the attackers >are willing to pay the price. >btw, just to nitpick a bit ;-), when a Naval Aviator (please don't call >them pilots) lands aboard a carrier, that is called a "trap", not an >arrest. however, the cables stretched across the after part of the flight >deck are called "arresting gear". > >john >(flight deck troubleshooter, VAW-121 aboard USS Eisenhower, 1979-1980)
An "arrest" is what the SPs perform after a night of liberty . . . ;-) -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
