Guided missles, unguided movies

I hope that at our military academies at West Point they're factoring in the law of unintended consequences. The negative side of smart bombs and precision guided munitions is that you could defeat a government, beat its military and the population has minimal to no sorrow or repentance that their country and their government was in the wrong. That is a consequence.

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Muslims have this reasonable fear of American culture. They look at the Taliban and covered women from head to toe and they might not be too thrilled with that but they compare it to Hollywood that strips a woman naked and puts video cameras all around her. And they say, "You know what? The Taliban is a lot less scary to us than Hollywood."

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I hope that at our military academies at West Point they're factoring in the law of unintended consequences. The negative side of smart bombs and precision guided munitions is that you could defeat a government, beat its military and the population has minimal to no sorrow or repentance that their country and their government was in the wrong. That is a consequence.

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Originally posted by Gerald

So, let's just go back to dropping napalm on civilians!

Or even better, just use nuclear weapons. You can wipe out even more civilians with those.

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Originally posted by Jefferson
Bob was not suggesting deliberately bombing innocent civilians. He was merely pointing out that smart bombs which kill very few civilians might cause no change of attitude among them which could cause more problems in occupying a defeated nation. It's now a new factor to consider in deciding whether or not to go to war with another country in the first place.

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Originally posted by Gerald

But remember that specifically attacking "innocent" civilians has an extremely demoralizing effect.

People become much more tractable when the alternative is extermination...

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Originally posted by Jefferson
Sure enough, that's what I get for disobeying scripture and answering a fool according to his folly. :doh:

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