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To: Anvilhead

My thought exactly. Fighters usually travel in pairs. It’s senseless to even consider destroying a pilot and plane for some Al Qeada henchman.


9 posted on 04/03/2007 5:10:29 AM PDT by saganite (Billions and billions and billions----and that's just the NASA budget!)
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To: saganite

I wouldn’t call it completely senseless.

I can imagine a scenario where, if we were certain, the AQ leader was accompianing a nuclear device that such a maneuver should be considered.

Of course, were I in command, I would never court-martial a pilot for refusing to kill himself in order to stop it. However, valliant self sacrifice has been voluntarily performed in less extreme circumstances than this one, so I don’t see where it would hurt to suggest it.


10 posted on 04/03/2007 5:19:20 AM PDT by American_Centurion (No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
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