[dzzrtrock]

What puzzles me is why we spend a $1 billion to build 1 atomic-powered mouse trap instead of building a billion $1, spring-powered mouse traps. We are capturing thousands of these things from the tangos and blowing them up on an EOD range then shooting $15k rockets at the tangos. Why not just dispose of these by returning them to the tangoes in the finest point-and-shoot manner, carefully and lovingly delivered into the first mosque/school/hospital/whatever that fires on our troops? So, Abdul Mohammed Mohumud Abullah Finkelstein (III), you like RPG's? Here's one for you...and another...and another...etc....and about 1,000 rounds of 7.62mm Warsaw pact ammo, freely dispensed from a slew of captured AK-47s....(we fired our cannons 'til the barrels melted down and we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round...)

[Terabitten]

Why not just dispose of these by returning them to the tangoes in the finest point-and-shoot manner, carefully and lovingly delivered into the first mosque/school/hospital/whatever that fires on our troops?

Several reasons. If word got out that we were using captured ammo, why wouldn't the hajis start booby-trapping their caches? Or setting up their weapons as duds? It's what I'd do.

Secondly, nothing in the world sounds like an AK47 being fired at you. Experienced soldiers can tell what's going on on the battlefield just by the sounds of firing, and having different weapons on each side sure helps that.

I agree that we could use more simple, point-and-shoot weapons, but I wouldn't use haji ordnance.