Daily Beast: Why Did America Drop 40 Tons of Bombs on This Iraqi Island?
Can you defeat low-tech guerrillas and terrorists with super-sophisticated smart bombs? The record shows that’s often a dumb idea.
In a dramatic and destructive demonstration earlier this week, a formation of U.S. Air Force warplanes dropped 40 tons of bombs on an island in the Tigris River north of Baghdad.
Islamic State militants have been using Qanus Island in Salah ad Din province as a staging area, according to the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria.
Army Col. Myles B. Caggins III, a spokesman for the Pentagon’s Operation Inherent Resolve, described the island in a tweet as “Daesh-infested,” using an Arabic term for ISIS.
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WNU Editor: I viewed the strike more a PR effort than a real combat operation.
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I've viewed this video a few times. Who hasn't and why not? But...there are large enough gaps between explosions that my money is on survivors that wouldn't be survivors had the dumb bombs on ya'll know who were engaged. For whippersnappers who don't know, I'm referring to MR. BAD; the B-52.
Watch a video of strikes on the Ho Chi Mihn trail and note the numbers coming out of MR. BAD'S bomb bays.
I don't know the amounts of dental work and psychiatric meds needed for those survivors, hearing aids and a triple dose of Viagra, etc., but this is NOT a recruiting video for ISIS.
I'm still waiting for an on site assessment by recon with photos. It ought to be a sight.
It is an operational strike under operation, if under permissive conditions. It gives people data.
A bullet is cheaper than a bomb (or a unit of spec ops might be cheaper than a squadron's time), but it still takes out the garbage and still shows political will.
ISIS might have 30,000 men under arms and a million supporters and sympathizers in France, but losing 80 or 400 in one night sets back their operational capability around Mosul for several months.
I see it more as a message to China and their endeavors in the South China Sea.
There is always a message for some one or other.
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