Posted on 08/28/2005 8:27:29 PM PDT by arrow525
This is an an excerpt from an article on the Pentagon's use of nonlethal weapons.
www.washingtonpost.com
Xtreme Defense
Lightning guns, heat rays, weapons that can make you hear the voice of God. This is what happens when the war on terror meets the entrepreneurial spirit By Sharon Weinberger Sunday, August 28, 2005; W18 "This is very clandestine," Pete Bitar whispered, as his red Dodge Caravan idled in the parking lot of a Burger King near Fort Belvoir. "They called last week, and they wanted delivery this week." It did feel a little clandestine, if a bit unlikely. Yet there, in the Burger King parking lot, a small transaction in America's war on terror was about to take place.
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The 1st M-16's / Vietnam-1965
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
(See 1st Photo)
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Interesting.
An early FReeper named Boyd used to say whatever we see now of weaponry was developed and perfected 20 years ago.
Imagine what they've got now that they're not telling us.
That sounds like what me need. Our adversaries have been listening to Satan for some time now.
Your photo w/ Ted Kennedy cracks me up every time I see it!
I've been wondering about the story behind it. Care to tell?
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In October 1965 a young Sentaor TED KENNEDY, before he went a bit off the deep end, toured Vietnam with other members of Congress to assess how our offensive Military operations were affecting Vietnam's War Refugee population.
One of the members of his Congressional junket was from California, as am I, so I was thus picked to be one of those Soldiers who greeted them at our 1st Air Cavalry Division Headquarters. Thus my TED & Me Photo.
This in the presence of our 1st Cav's Commanding General, Gen. HARRY W.O. KINNARD, who 20 years earlier brought us the famous World War II "NUTS" reply to the Germans' ultimatum of surrender during the Battle of the Bulge.
Lots of History there, Lots.
The Vietnam Photo of TED & Me:.
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
(See 5th Photo down)
...was taken just a couple of weeks before our 1st Major Battle of the Vietnam War against Communist North Vietnamese Army Regulars.
http://www.WeWereSoldiers.com
(Paramount Pictures website)
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fyi.......:o)
OK ........why the title change from Nonlethal weapons to Xtreme Defense ?
Because that is the actual title of the article
The question is will the threat of not really hurting you permanently be a deterrent to those who want to really hurt us.
And when those bad people threaten the "innocent civilians caught in the middle", with lethal force, won't they have more of an effect than when the good guys threaten with non-lethal force?
Typical WAPO crap. Ms. Weinberger's superiority and dismissiveness percolated to the top. Her whole attitude sort of screamed, "Oh, those wacky Pentagon types!"
I'll read the article this evening. My first reaction is that I would much rather have a 120mm smoothbore round for sniper supression than a dazzler. Oh well, maybe I am just old fashioned.
Every lethal weapon will make you hear the voice of God. That's what happens when you die.
Fascinating stuff. Bump for a later read.
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