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2015-12-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Air strikes alone won't defeat Islamic State, Kerry warns

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Posted by Fred 2015-12-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 Use bigger bombs. And put them where they belong.

Posted by gorb 2015-12-04 00:24|| 2015-12-04 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Make all the mosques a kool-aid test?

Posted by 3dc 2015-12-04 01:10|| 2015-12-04 01:10|| Front Page Top

#3 The interesting question is whether the Air Force is doing more bomb runs in training practice in any given day than they're dropping bombs on ISIS on any given day. Training is serious business.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-12-04 07:29|| 2015-12-04 07:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Agree gorb. I bet we could find bombs big enough if we really wanted to.

Posted by AlanC 2015-12-04 08:06|| 2015-12-04 08:06|| Front Page Top

#5 There seems a sigma against A-Bombs, that large enough?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2015-12-04 14:24|| 2015-12-04 14:24|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm sure Curtis LeMay could find a solution

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-12-04 17:34|| 2015-12-04 17:34|| Front Page Top

#7 if Kerry says something, that is prima facie evidence for its opposite. Thus the sensible conclusion from his statement is that appropriate bombing missions can defeat the Daesh.
However the squeamishness about people dying so far displayed by US bombing will never do so.

Posted by Grins Snese4215 2015-12-04 23:31|| 2015-12-04 23:31|| Front Page Top

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