On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 2:42 PM <[email protected]> wrote: *> Ok, here goes in 2001, I would have simply been out for revenge in the > sense of an extermination campaign.* >
I don't know about that but as much as I hate George W Bush for the Iraq war and his mythical "weapons of mass destruction" I can't really blame him for going into Afghanistan in 2001, I would've done the same thing and I think almost anybody would. > *> I would have used thermobarics to* > What's with you and thermobarics? Sometimes it can be a mildly useful weapon under very specific circumstances (no wind, confined space, low humidity) but it's certainly no world changer. *> the max for a full year to burn them and their supply chain from > Pakistan,* > Supply chain? This isn't World War Two, we aren't talking about tanks, fighter planes and submarines; the Taliban already have five dollar AK 47s, 25 dollar RPGs, improvised explosive devices made with fertilizer and diesel oil, and plenty of domestically produced goat cheese, and that and their silly religion is all they need. > *> I would have had bases facing Pakistan and the ISI for immediate > annihilation.* > Immediate annihilation of who? It's been shown historically that fixed military bases do not work, General Patton said “*Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity*". The Great wall of China was a wonderful architectural achievement but a failure militarily, so was Hadrian's Wall for the Romans, so was Dien Bien Phu and the Maginot line for the French, and Khe Sanh for the Americans in 1968. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> tf9 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0%2BRera9WftTgeRYoHtO23LQ6oHK%3D%2BeDGyzL_AN%2BBFD4w%40mail.gmail.com.
