Steven Cole on America's genocidal love of killing swarthy civilians:
The Pentagon has decided not to bomb Iraqi oil fields and facilities that produce weapons of mass destruction, but will instead disable these with electronic attacks and information warfare. The problem with bombing the oilfields is that a post-war Iraq (and post-war oil markets) will need them. Bombing the weapons sites could cause civilian casualties and destroy needed evidence. Some of these attacks will be conducted by cruise missiles with new microwave warheads.
That's right -- we'll be spending millions of extra dollars, and perhaps risking extra lives, just to make sure that we kill fewer Iraqi civilians, and that Free Iraq has an immediate source of income.
And all the "peace" activists have to offer is continued oppression, militarism, and brutality.
People need to stop and think that we are the only country in the history of mankind who has the ability to choose just how far we will go in fighting our enemies. If we were really as evil as "the left" would have people believe, we would use just one of our 12 OHIO class nuclear submarines to destroy the majority of Islamic populations centers between morocco and malaysia. We havent chosen to do that, not because it wouldnt work or because we couldnt do it, but because we are as a civilization ( Gasp!) humane. We choose to put our citizen-soldiers at risk of death to protect from the greater potential of the death "civilians" even if those civilians are people markedly unfriendly to us and our aims.
We could kill them in vast numbers. We have simply chosen not to. That should count for something. I also think people should consider what would happen if the situation was reversed.
WTF is a "microwave warhead"? Does it make good nachos?
12 Ohio boats? I thought we had 14, cut down from the original 18 by treaty?
"microwave warhead" is not the right name. It's really "EMP" bomb. Creates the same size of Electo-Magnetic Pulse as a nuke. It kills electronics but not people. When I heard about this a few weeks ago, and googles it, I realized that we can win any war we choose to.
Without hardly even breaking a sweat.
Our military is even more powerful than the anti-war idiots realize in their wildest dreams!
Don't bet your life on it, ray. Or anyone else's. Do the words "Faraday cage" mean anything to you? I promise you that Saddam is now considering their application very carefully.
We're going to drop microwaves on them? Well, I got an old one out in the garage. The government can have it but they gotta come get it.
I suspect we wouldn't be building warheads that we hadn't tested on Faraday cages. They'll be like those aluminum hats the homeless wear, to keep out the voices. Fried is fried, the number of zeros before the word "volts" becomes insignificant at some level.
Chuck:
Fried is not fried if you can't actually induce current in the object you're trying to fry. What a Faraday cage does is allow the EMR to induce current in IT instead; the EMR never penetrates the cage. And for crying out loud, they're talking about using car batteries to power these things. A car battery can put out maybe a few kilowatts of power; enough to fry unprotected electronics but certainly not enough to melt a properly constructed Faraday cage.
Actually, you don't even need to have a cage; you can just surround your electronics with a solid sheet of copper.
