THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS … IS ABOUT TO GET ROCKY
Remember that narrow “humanitarian” bombing campaign in Iraq?
You know … the military intervention U.S. president Barack Obama launched because America’s nine-year occupation of the Middle Eastern country was such a rousing success?
Well guess what … it turns out (surprise) that the mission wasn’t humanitarian at all, but rather a sustained campaign aimed at weakening the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which according to the federal government is hiding under your bed ready to strike at your infidel heart like … any second now.
And the bombings in Iraq may soon spread to Syria – a country Obama and warmongering “Republicans” like Lindsey Graham wanted to invade last year (but couldn’t because public support for such a war was nonexistent).
Fast forward to now: According to the White House, bombing campaigns in Syria are not only “on the table,” but the administration has no intention of telling Syrian president Bashar al-Assad when it’s going to strike.
Apparently Obama also has no intention of seeking permission from the U.S. Congress for this latest expansion of the “War on Terror,” which celebrates its 13th birthday on October 7.
Here’s our question: Who, exactly, are we going to bomb this time? Last time we checked America was supporting ISIS in Syria …
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It’s a compromise with Republicans who say he’s not “doing enough” and think that diplomacy is a pointless exercise.
At least bombs don’t kill anyone.
I disgree.Muslim Obama supports the goals of ISIS…and for that matter , Hamas…and for that matter the New Black Panthers in Ferguson.
The violence by his friends just got out of control-he will reign it in until after the midterms.
I disgree.Muslim Obama supports the goals of ISIS…and for that matter , Hamas…and for that matter the New Black Panthers in Ferguson.
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Why didn’t *I* think of that (slaps forehead) of COURSE! How could I have missed something so OBVIOUS!!!
Think outside the box once in awhile. :-)
I used to think I did.
You obviously do most of your thinking in your “box”.
I’m surprised you didn’t throw in “Nazi” or “communist”.
Obama’s grandpa was a Nazi sympathizer and his dad was a communist.
Obama is a ‘closet’ Muslim with a Marxist world view.
Thanks .
That’ll teach him to smart mouth you! *thumps hand on desk*
Wasn’t Bush’s grandpa Preston a Nazi sympathizer of sorts?
Oh, is the king back from his trip to the ice cream shoppe?
forgot to capitalize The and King, please don’t forget again.
Ron Paul-FITS bass-ackwards foreign policy on display. Fail early and fail later even worse. Head burying does.not work.
Our nation would be more secure if you did not exist.
Actually, you give me way too much credit for influence. If I made that much of a difference, we would not be in the total mess we’re in now.
How many MOAR beheadings until ISIS is an intergalactic power?
They laughed about Bin Laden until they cried about 9/11.
Maybe if we give ISIS Mande and Liz they will leave us alone.
Lol! Better not.They both seem like nice people however the religion of Islam and followers ISIS might not think much of their apparently liberal views on abortion and gay marriage. :-)
It makes no difference to ISIS. ISIS doesn’t believe a women’s views require any consideration.
Something they have in common with the GOP.
Whatcha doing back, Sandi? I thought you were in the ward due to your paranoia a few days back. Your “lawyer” say it’s safe the come back to FITS? LOL!
Had a bad day-we identified who “hacked” my professional and personal email accounts.
It will all work out. :-))))))
Misunderstanding. When I said “leave us alone.” By “us” I meant the people who visit fitsnews.com and they refers to Mande and Liz. ;-)
‘Those pesky indefinite pronouns again.’
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I finally realized the equation.
Obama bomb——–BAD
Bush bomb———–Good
YOU BETCHA!
Oh, you don’t think Bush has been vilified for dropping bombs? That’s cute.
No you jumped the gun.
The ultra right all ways calls for more bombing, but seems to “vilify” Obama when he threatens to pull the trigger.
Go back and read the article, then maybe you can grasp the intent of the comment.YOU BETCHA!
Drop Bobby Harrell over Syria — justice served to both SC and the Assad regime.
Let Glenn McConnell put on his Confederate uniform and drop him to.
Will, really dude can’t you lose the freaking pastel, baby puke and juicy fruit colored hyperlinks?
I do love that plane – the B1B aka “The Bone”, repurposed during its lifetime from a high altitude supersonic penetration bomber (insert penis joke here) to a low altitude NOE bomber to it’s current role as a general purpose delivery truck for conventional munitions. It was designed before “stealth” was the “end all be all of airplane styling” but it still has a radar cross section smaller than a ‘Nam era F4 Phantom II and can fly well over Mach 1 clean.
What’s so great about it? The Bone can deliver almost every form of aerial munitions we have, from dumb to ultra smart. It can deliver the weapons reliably (these days anyway) in a hurry and on target. Why’s that important – because it says to every enemy we have “piss us off and we can hurt you – badly”.
The rub in all that? We have to have the will to do it. Making bug splats out of terrorists accomplishes nothing unless you kill every last one of them. Damn the collateral damage, full speed ahead and kill them all or kill the head of the snake. If you only kill the head, you’ll be back at it in a while but you’ll have some peace and quiet for a while.
Plinking trucks is a half measure.
Half measures bring disastrous results.
“Will, really dude can’t you lose the freaking pastel, baby puke and juicy fruit colored hyperlinks?”
The Colonel, Will uses those colors to satisfy the large LGBT community that frequent this site.
All those “pop bang” toys we had and the Vietnamese infantry with a few tanks won.
Well, and some Soviet SAMs.
And how does a B1 stop a 757 whose final flight plan is plotted in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan or any other “ally?”
Think Dresden, not Hanoi, Hiroshima, not Baghdad. Kill’em all and let God sort it out or stay out of it.
You and I both know the whole story about the “Bone”
“Show of force fly-by, yada,yada,yada”
The “Bone” was relegated to the Georgia Air Guard about 10-15 years or so back and even they didn’t want the expense to keep it flying and the active USAF took it back.
B-1 developement was terminated during the Carter years in favor of cruise missles and the F-117 (which was top secret at the time) but resurrected during “my balls are bigger than yours and lets throw in the USS New Jersey while we’re at it” Reagan.
Yeah, its a nice looking plane and has a good payload & fast as hell but a bitch to maintain and is not even nuclear capable.
You can make the rocks bounce a little higher if that is what gets you off but for this mission A-10’s will do the job better.
For what it’s worth a few squadrons of A-26’s, A-1’s and B-25’s (complete with eight forward firing .50 cals and a 75mm cannon) would be a better application for plinking trucks and smoking Haji in the referenced AOR (IF you could wave a magic wand and they magically appeared on the ramp at Balad that is……)
I’ve said that all along when i was in the “Stan”. Only fly in the ointment might be high altitude performance in the mountains in the “Stan” (but I don’t think that is a factor in the plains of western Iraq or eastern Syria).
Then again, there is the mighty AC-130 Hercules!!!!!
C-130 = best damn plane made since the DC-3/C-47!!!!!!!
Longest airplane in constant production- They’re making them down in Marietta,Ga today!!!!!!!
A-10s and AC-130s are an infantryman’s best friend. The AirFarce hates them both because they’re not sexy.
Can we just drop the whole Joe Wilson family on them?