Posted on 09/14/2001 6:16:03 PM PDT by oxi-nato
That has been my suggestion on other threads if he is located in the mountains. Not if it "gets really bad" but as a first option.
As to going in on the ground, just the altitude adjustment might take several months acclimitization for any troopies, even already young and in good combat shape. It's HIGH altitude there. It's no joke terrain, and remote as heck.
My solution is a war with bean counters. Yep, total economic devastation, track down the economics of his structure base and seize it, over and over, through all the holding companies. Not sexy or bloodthirsty, but it would work.
Taking a western, technological peoples and reducing them to goat herder status is devastating. when you are trying that with people who are already goat herders, it's really not much of a big deal. The amount of men and materiel to "conquer" afghanistan doesn't exist in the US at this point. If we tried it it could run over 100 billion bucks a year or more, real easy I imagine, just to attempt it. That's why I like use bean counters to fight the war, accountants and detectives. We are getting hit with unconventional warfare, we need to be as unconventional as it takes right back, and one thing the US people are good at is paper work and money dealings. We can bankrupt those people effectively and cheaply. It could work, and it would require some SERIOUS leanings on our so called ally, the saudi dictators, something we have needed to do anyway for a long time. Notice that list again who recognizes the taliban.
Next step domestically is total regaining of control over immigration and tourism and business here, end the open no borders concept, it's a disaster. Just been proven.
After that, manhattan project on energy independence for the US, total energy independence, complete, 100%. We are innovators, we need to innovate, do whatever it takes. We need to stop the money flow to the fanatics. these various regimes use a significant part of that oil money for weapons purchases and more research into WMD. This is nuts we still trade with them. This is hitting yourself with a hammer because it feels so good when you stop.
Today we mourn, tomorrow we bury, then.....it's your ass!
Eric Rudolph or Bin Laden?
You do realize, don't you, that Bin Laden is probably already on a beach in Cancun watching CNN?
THIS 'WAR' IS BS.
We will see.....we will see.....
I stand corrected that you are an American citizen of Croat/Austian descent. Thank you for clearing that up. I am making this a public post so I may state that I inferred from your earlier post identifying yourself as half-Croat and half-Austrian that you lived in Austria, and I was very wrong in that assumption. (I even managed to mangle your nationality into Austrian-Slovene, for which I apologise.)
Also, you did indeed say: I was proud of the German army during WWII. I was NOT proud of the SS.. Some people, such as yourself, see a sharp distinction. And I, myself, hardly think every single German conscript during WWII was a monster, even though my grandfather was mustard-gassed by regular German army units, and my father-in-law, at the age of five, was separated from his parents while trying to flee St. Petersburg when the regular German army shelled the refugees on the dock and spent several years at near-starvation afterward.
Likewise, perhaps you have me confused with some others who attacked you on the earlier thread. If you will go back and check, I think you will find I have always been very polite to you, and even said some very nice things about you. (So has getoffmylawn, BTW.)
Finally, your post #15 sounds like a young man who's never been in the middle of a war, who has fine sentiments and even finer hopes, while my post #27 in reply sounds like someone who has been in the middle of a war or two, and who wishes your fine sentiments would win out, but who bitterly knows they cannot...and is railing more against this tragic truth than at the young man with the bright hopes (which I so wish were realistic -- in a just world, they would be -- and my hope of hopes and prayer of prayers is that idealistic young people like you will continue to carry forth such a bright flame -- the world needs it!).
Perhaps the two of us should simply take into account our various histories, acknowledge our differences, apologise for our mistakes, and move on from here as fellow travellers, if not friends?
I'm actually a very nice lady, and I think you are actually a very nice young man.
In any case, I hope you will remain on FR, as there is much to be learned here, at least when folks don't let emotions get in the way ;)
Best regards, wonders
In short: The hard part is knowing where the caves are. I am now in the position of hoping that one of the more tinfoil applications alleged for HAARP is actually real--earth-penetrating tomography (EPT). EPT allegedly uses some exotic HF propagation factors to see underground. There is a patent out there--but it might not be worth the paper it's printed on (patents no longer require a working model to demonstrate the concept).
Once you have that data, there is a RANGE of nasty tricks you can play--FAE bombs, nukes, or drop a precisely timed series of JDAMs above the caves, and let resonance collapse the caves for you.
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