Posted on 08/25/2013 8:43:46 PM PDT by Errant
UK and US military chiefs are drawing up a list of targets for precision-guided bombs and missiles to strike at the heart of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. Defence correspondent Ian Drury looks at the options.
WHAT TARGETS WOULD THE COALITION HIT?
The favoured option among top brass is for limited Western action using ‘stand-off’ weapons from long distance to disrupt Assad’s ability to carry out chemical attacks and damage his military machine.
Intelligence on targets would come from pilotless drones patrolling the skies above Syria and special forces on the ground.
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What targets will the Russians hit in retaliation?
Still sounds like dog wagging...
GWB got us into an war we couldn't win in Iraq, and a war we chose not to win in Afghanistan. Guess it's time for zero to get us into an even more unwinnable war!
Thank goodness the country isn't broke and we haven't spent the last six years decimating the military.
That’s what I’m wondering too. Unless BO has some deal worked out with the Ruskies, like maybe giving then AK, this could turn into a very serious tit-for-tat...
F**k Obama, he is a madman. We have no business in Syria chasing trumped up chem war charges. The US is the aggressor nation in this and must be awoken to its error. But how?
The US has been the big p*ick screwing up the world for quite a while. I fear our nations judgement will be severe.
New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston
If the west hits Assad we have WW3. In addition to the prophecy the he fulfills.
Bring all troops home. Send the liberals that are for this stupidity.
Let Allah sort it out. Not American lives and treasury!
Military sources suggested the early hours of the 2011 campaign against Col Muammar Gaddafi could form a template for any operation. The Libya campaign began with a blitz of Tomahawk cruise missiles from US warships and from a British Trafalgar Class submarine.
The Royal Navy declined to comment on the current positions of its submarines, but they regularly pass through the area on their way to the Suez Canal.
America’s Sixth Fleet currently has four guided missile destroyers in the area, each of which could join the attack.
The Royal Navy also has its rapid response task force in the Mediterranean. The group includes two frigates and the helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious.
Navy sources said there were no plans to change the exercises, but the group provided “strategic contingency” if needed.
Agreed; ragheads killing ragheads, who gives a sh#t.
Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.
Just think of all the Christians the rebels can kill if we help them...This is not very smart Ozero.
Why bomb the crap out of Asshat, when the Muslim Brotherhood Al QuesdaLindsey Graham John McCain and free Syria Fighters did the Saran gas thing in Damascus?
Why make Syria suffer more, for the Obama Administration giving WMD tovthe Al Queda to use against civilians in Damasvus?
What do you think Obama was doing in Benghazi? Transferring missiles and WMD to Al Queda for use in Syria!
Asshat is no idiot, he did not gas his own people. Any moron can see this is a false flag provocation.
Please please no bombing of innocent targets in Asshats Syria.
It wouldn't start that way.
Since Obama has been projecting so much weakness, the Ruskies might try to humiliate Obama by sinking one or more of our ships thinking that we might not want to escalate the situation and run away with our tail between our legs.
If it were to come to that, I hope there would be a coup in the U.S. to dispose of our "regime."
He wouldn’t.
It’ very possible they will sink an aircraft carrier
It’s possible that the US supplied the chemical weapons to Al Qeada, who in turn used them and tried to frame Syrian troops.
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