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The Mainstreaming of Ron Paul

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Acidtrash5/08/2009 8:12:35 am PDT

re: #511 Salamantis

If we try to low-tech this, we get blown outta the air. And outta the water. And off the land.

Our technology and our expertise in employing it are our combat edges.

Thats not true at all. The russians have been keeping their high tech air to ground missiles very close to their chest otherwise they end up having them used against them in Chechnya etc. The Russians tend to lose more aircraft to small arms fire and zoomies are just as susceptable. Thats how we brits lost tornados by depolying the JP233 runway buster system.

Dont forget this is an asymetric war. That means we are fighting a propaganda war, a shooting war and an economic war. If the enemy can make it cripplingly expensive they get nuts like Ron Paul back home gaining traction pushing for withdrawal. Thats why we have to keep an eye on what we spend and the size of bombs we drop because civillian casualties are a self inflicted owund in the propaganda war.

There’s no way in hell an RPG can take out a Tucano and modern turboprops aint slow either. And they can lauch stand off ordinance from quite away away form the hot zone. This isnt vietnam where we used skyraiders as lawnmowers.