Chris -- I believe, kindly, that you miss MY point. It's not about de-activating PS-2 sets. IT's about reducing the Arab world to a 18th century technology status.
No banks, no money. no phones. no mechanized transportation. no utilities. no centralized communications. no product and service distribution capability. no manufacturing capabilities. ... and no ability to generate cash from oil reserves. and on and on an on. They would be removed as a threat for years to come and rendered helpless and impotent. Thier governments would collapse. With no money and no digital loudspeakers, they would be what they were in the 1700s.
Think through the scenario. In an Armageddon-like, 1000-sun instant, the night sky is lit up for perhaps 30 seconds, and then nothing works. nothing. No information flows except rumors. No lights but lamps function, nor radios receive or transmit anything. And this goes on 'forever'. I think that would have more real impact than "threatening them with deactivation of their PS2 sets ..." Don't patronize me Chris. I know better, and so do you.
There's more to this scenario than I have posted, but do not belittle its efficacy.
How then would the West extract the ME oil required to function at our own 21st century level?
Go in post-strike to reconstitute the system, with occupational troops and contract oil workers?
A disruption of ME oil flows even for a matter of weeks or months would destroy the Western economies.
Look, if you don't threaten to kill people, Johnnie Jihad won't care what you threaten to do. They don't understand civilizational throwback. I understand where you are going with this, but it won't deter anybody. I was not trying to be patronizing, just pointing out the obvious.
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Chris
Chris -- I believe, kindly, that you miss MY point. It's not about de-activating PS-2 sets. IT's about reducing the Arab world to a 18th century technology status.
These idiots already live in the 14th century, taking them to the 18th would be a God-send. Neuk them all, don't let them live and teach their children the same stupididy that they learned. Let's start over in the a-rab world, they need to learn that their stupid so-called relion is a farse, stop spreading it, delete it! There is no alla, and his stupid phrophet, mohammed is a pedophile and an idiot.
I like your EMP attack idea, but moving the Arab world into the 18th century would actually be a huge leap forward for most of them. ;)