Posted on 04/07/2017 3:23:43 PM PDT by springwater13
“bombing a country “
You should read some history on the Pacific war in WWII. The US military would bomb Jap airfields, sending 50 or 100 planes at a time, only to have the Japs using it again 8 hours later.
Stop looking for ways to put Trump down. If you can’t come up with anything better or some facts to support your garbage, then.....get the hell out of here!!
“Care to guess what a fighter jet or a radar unit costs?”
I did a back of the envelope calculation on the raid....easily $600 million in damage...not bad for $80 million worth of older Tomahawks that the Navy wanted to replace anyway...they have newer and much better versions.
“Stop looking for ways to put Trump down.”
Two days ago those planes were killing Jihadis, today they are not
If 59 cruise missiles can't destroy a runway, then I'd say they're pretty damn useless. Isn't the whole purpose of a first-strike weapon to incapacitate enemy military infrastructure like a runway? LOL.
No. The intelligence is from credible sources. What you have seen from the Pentagon briefs is all credible from systems that are very capable of following and analyzing these events.
“I’d say they’re pretty damn useless. Isn’t the whole purpose of a first-strike weapon to incapacitate enemy military infrastructure like a runway? LOL”
Stop pretending you know anything about military issues. They didn’t try to hit the runway and they can’t do it with this cruise missile. They destroyed over $600 million worth of military hardware and sent a strong message.
“The intelligence is from credible sources”
LOL, are you serious?
We are not planning on using this field or invading Syria. We don't bomb a runway because its easy to patch and not a high value target. We took out the means to support aircraft operations at the field. The field is out of action and that was the goal. At the same time we destroyed a significant chunk of the Syrian air force. No more threat and message sent. We pissed of the Russians just enough for a verbal scolding.
In addition, a Russian-made surface-to-air missile site and its associated radar was destroyed....
Er, wasn’t the radar supposed to detect incoming missiles?
I thought that was the whole point of radar :)
Might be just me but it seems the ones banging the war-drums and hootin’-n-hollerin’ in favor of starting a war w/ Syria, using the pretext of ‘vital national interests’ (whatever THOSE might be), would be the same decrying the Socialist use of ‘compelling govt interest’ to infringe upon our Rights...
Deja vu, no? Didn’t we have a pResident ‘winning hearts and minds’ w/ the ‘religion of peace’ (but promising NO ‘national building’....while nation building)? Damn the public mind has gone to sh!t, it can’t seem to remember anything past last week, let alone over 8yrs.
What a squandered opportunity: to shutdown the UN as the feckless quagmire that it is, pull the U.S. *OUT* and THEN show the World leadership by gathering an international coalition. Instead, we seem to have an intact runway, $$$ lost in 60’ish missiles on less than 24hrs of ‘intel’, from a prior-cnadidate who ran on staying OUT of areas the U.S. has not reason being...
Well, what’s done is done.
I don’t want more attacks. I didn’t want this one :)
But we got our supreme court justice and a lot more.
No point in crying over a decision that is over.
Who knows, maybe in a week’s or month’s time, I’ll look back and see that the pros outweighed the cons.
What’s next on the agenda?
Yes, I am and I know exactly of what I speak. I can lend my service history to my statement here, but you can either believe me or not, I don’t care. I don’t do loose lips. I just speak truth.
“believe me or not, I don’t care.”
Well it’s good then you don’t care
Not if in the short term you plan to use it.
“Not if in the short term you plan to use it. “
There is a Russian special forces unit stationed there, I’m pretty sure we won’t be using it
Keep your day job.
All your observations seem juvenile.
How old are you?
I would guess for a one time attack, or at least in a way that you aren’t going to send a missile at the runway everyday would make no sense. A runway is probably very easily repaired, better to take out the planes and command and control.
And you are 100% sure that this CW attack happened the way that it’s been reported?
Old enough to recognize when a punk tries to post something cute and fails.
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