Kindgo
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Many Iraqi soldiers captured on the battlefield were simply allowed to go home. Those soldiers are believed to have regrouped and are among those waging the hit and run operations against us now.
The critics are now complaining that the Pentagon was too soft in prosecuting the war and that’s why we are in trouble now. Those same critics were complaining during the actual war about excessive force and collateral damage.
So concerned was the Pentagon that it even designed a new anti-tank weapon. A laser guided 2,000 pound block of cement. It would flatten a tank quite effectively without the dangers associated with an explosive missile.
But that strategy, charge the administration’s critics, is the reason we are being attacked now. Because we didn’t kill enough of them.
During the war, the handwringers worried that we might make the Iraqis mad by killing some of them. Now they claim because we didn’t kill enough of them, we evidently we made them mad anyway. And so it goes.
It would appear that so far, every extension of kindness has come back to haunt us. It’s the same “no-good-deed-goes-unpunished” principle that has dogged America since World War Two.
That there was a deliberate and conscious effort on the part of the Pentagon to conduct as humane a war as possible is obvious when you look at what we had to work with compared to the first Gulf War.
• One in five jet fighters could launch laser-guided bombs in Desert Storm, compared with all aircraft in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
•One in 20 bombs were laser directed then; three out of five had that capability in Iraqi Freedom.
• The M109 artillery piece took eight minutes to set up; in this campaign, the Army's Paladin self-propelled howitzer took 30 seconds.
• The Navy Tomahawk cruise missile was limited to a 500-mile-plus range in 1991. It took two or three days to program its targeting coordinates. That was then. In Gulf War Two, the range exceeded 1,000 miles, and each missile could be programmed in hours as intelligence agencies located new targets.
• It took two days in Desert Storm to get commanders an intelligence photograph and target geographic coordinates. In Iraqi Freedom, photos were available immediately from satellites and various unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
• Field commanders had one type of UAV in 1991; 10 were available in this war, ranging from a small, hand-held drone to the long-flying Global Hawk.
• Desert Storm commanders had to fly out 800 pages of "air tasking orders" to aircraft carriers daily. This time, the Combined Air Operations Center in Saudi Arabia sent out orders that were "instantly available to all units" through a secure Internet connection.
• Commanders were limited to secure telephone communications 12 years ago. In this war, officers used secure video teleconferences right down to the commander in a Humvee.
With all of that at our disposal, the United States used only as much force as necessary to achieve the objective.
In gratitude, our forces are under fire every day from the very soldiers whose lives we spared on the battlefield.
It’s demonic. But that shouldn't be surprising.
These are the last days.
Hal Lindsey
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God bless,
Kindgo
Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.
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