US concerned about world trade in American-made Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems.
We put a lot of these into the hands of the Taliban, when they were fighting the Soviets. Now we want them back.
To: Sleeping Beauty
Most of them (probably 999 out of 1000) don’t work any more. If they did, they would already have been used against us. I’d be more worried about the Soviet/Russian versions that they *still* sell to just about anyone with money.
THe older Soviet/Russian ones have problems targetting anything, but the newer ones are relatively capable.
2 posted on
05/24/2007 11:52:11 AM PDT by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Sleeping Beauty
They have expressed a willingness to send the missiles back to us.
To: Sleeping Beauty
We put a lot of these into the hands of the Taliban
That is incorrect. We gave them to the Mujahadeen. Different people.
4 posted on
05/24/2007 12:01:03 PM PDT by
true_blue_texican
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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