32 fighter bombers and helos using precision guided isn’t “Devastating Raqqa with heavy airstikes”.
If we aren’t using B-52 with iron bombs, we aren’t serious about this.
Like 9/11 the destruction of ISIS was a golden opportunity that like 9/11, we will waste. That wasn’t just an opportunity to destroy ISIS, it was a chance to make them into an example that would shock the world and remind them that the USA is very dangerous to screw with.
But we will piss away this offered on a plate opportunity with deft little pinprick strikes that nobody will be impressed with.
COIN sucks. It always sucks, it’s never worked. Only a massive, insulting display of power will work here.
>But we will piss away this offered on a plate opportunity with deft little pinprick strikes that nobody will be impressed with.
COIN sucks. It always sucks, it’s never worked. Only a massive, insulting display of power will work here.
Indeed.
Outside civilian populated areas, they have used B-52’s. I saw the photos before.
Inside the photo’s were not small but they did not level the city.